Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon Sender: From: chengpi@ecf.toronto.edu (CHENG) Original-To: utchinese Message-ID: <89Oct25.231835edt.21025@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 89 23:18:30 EDT Newsgroups: ut.chinese Distribution: ut Sender: list-admin@csri.toronto.edu Approved: nobody@csri.toronto.edu ***************************************************************************** NEWS UTC ISSUE28 Oct. 24, 1989 ***************************************************************************** 1. Short News Group 1 2. Secret Railway for CCP Leaders 3. Short News Group 2 4. Li Peng Denies Economy Harshment ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Short News Group 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) According to a China Catholic priest, who fled to Hong Kong, there have been over 10 priests arrested after June 4th in Mainland China. In Hebei province, those Catholic fathers could no longer go to villages to say mass. [From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang)] [Source: World Jurnal, 10/23/89] (2) A Hong Kong newspaper released that a Chinese state official had delivered a message suggesting that Deng did not order the killing in June 4th. It was believed that Deng did not want Yang Shangkung to be the Chairman of CMC and was trying to draw a line between Yang and himself. Deng had told Dr. T. D. Lee that the responsibility (killings- note from reporter) should not be pushed over to the demonstrators. [From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang)] [Source: World Jurnal, 10/23/89] (3) As no aggreements have been reached between Deng and Yang about who will be the Chairman of CMC and how to treat Zhao, the fifth plenum has to be postponed. It is reported that Deng has proposed that Jiang as the Chairman, and Qin Jiwei, Yu Qiuli, and Yang Baibin as the Vice Chairmen; but Yang, wants himself to be the Chairman, and Jiang, Yang Baibin, and Liu Huaqing to be Vice Chairmen. There are three posibilities about treating Zhao. <1> expel Zhao from the party and severely critisize his thoughts and remaining poison. <2> set up a special court and prosecute him. The process will be kept secretly but disclose the result; purge his supporters. <3> keep Zhao's party membership and critisize him widely and severely. [From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang)] [Source: World Jurnal, 10/23/89] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Secret Railway Exists in Beijing For CCP Leaders ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: kwchan@hkucs.UUCP (Chan Ki Wa) [Source: South China Morning Post, Monday, October 23, 1989] By Nigel Rosser A former Chinese civil servant, who claims to be hiding in Hongkong after fleeing the mainland, has told a British television crew that not only is there a secret railway running beneath Beijing, but he has travelled on it. He said the system was built over a period of about 40 years, to enable senior leaders to escape from the Great Hall of the People to an army base hollowed out of a mountain to the west of Beijing in the event of civil unrest or invasion. The former civil servant was interviewed by Britain's Granada TV's World in Action from an undisclosed Causeway Bay address. He claimed top leader Deng Xiaoping and senior members of his inner circle had ordered the route to be built to enable the Government to flee to Xi Shan mountain. He revealed that the mountain base was equipped with hospitals, ammunition dumps and communications systems. The line begins at Chegongzhuang and has stations at the Government compound at Zhongnanhai and under the Great Hall of the People. From here it runs south to rejoin the public system at Qiamen and east as far as Pingguoyuan, where another secret network takes the train to the military base. The civil servant also claimed there was another secret line linking the Bank of China to station 12 of the public system. This is intended to transport China's gold bullion re-services from the capital in case of invasion. He claimed that Chinese troops who suddenly emerged from the Great Hall of the People station to smash the student rebellion in June had been using the underground system. Granada television secured the interview as part of its documentary The Terror After Tiananmen, which includes rare footage taken inside China since the rebellion. TVB has already bought the Hongkong rights to the controversial film, which shows interviews with dissidents who have fled underground, as well as clandestine shots of police and military activity in China's capital. In a series of astonishing interviews, filmed with hidden cameras, people inside China reveal the full extent of the Government's crackdown on the population. Claims are made that since the imposition of martial law thousands have been killed in police raids and executions. Students travelling to Fujian and Hubei to spread the news of the massacre have been unceremoniously killed by local police, some people claim. One family was said to have been offered 4,000 pounds (HK$50,000) and access to a new apartment, modern appliances and cheap televisions to keep silent after their son was killed by mistake by the secret police. Students have been particularly hard hit, the program claims. They had been encouraged to report each other to the authorities and classes have been decimated by the police crackdown. One student tells how six of his classmates have disappeared since the massacre. Only one he thinks has escaped to freedom. Other students have succumbed to mental illness under the pressure brought to bear on them; these, the young man claims, are simply tied to a bed and injected with tranquillisers to keep them quiet. Students have also been asked to give daily accounts of their movements between April 15 and June 4 - corroborated by another person - and write "self-revealing" essays, and statements saying what they think of democracy. As one interviewee concludes: "Why should we be afraid of death. If we are not afraid to be alive, why should we be afraid of death?" The world premiere of the Terror After Tiananmen, will be shown in Britain by Granada tonight. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Short News Group 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Invited by Taiwan 'New Generation Foundation', six Chinese students and visiting scholars will visit Taiwan in early Dec. The six visitors will be: Li Lu (former vice commanding officer in TAM square. CU) Zhang Rei (former director of TAM square radio station. USC), Liu Yonchuang (chair of IFCSS, Stanford), Qing Xiao (Nortry Dam), Jia Hong (G.W. U), and Liu Yan-dong (general secretary of IFCSS, Maryland U). The Taiwanese official said as the IFCSS does not belong to CC government,it was very likely that the application would be approved. [From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang)] [source: World Journal] (2) Under the pressure from Beijing government, French government has issued a warning to pro-democracy activists not to engage in political acitivities aimed to against the government with which France has diplomatic relationship. However, French government will continue to provide protection to the activists. [From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang)] [Source: World Journal] (3) According to source from Beijing, Chinese Communist government will make a full report about TAM square event. The Western diplimatics think that it shows that Chinese Communist government wants to fix its dirty reputation since June 4th. The party chief Jiang told Dr. T.D. Lee that the Red Cross would submit a list of toll. The western observers, however, believe that CC government will insist that the crackdown was right, and only pick up some people and states that they were mis-killed. [From: simone@nyspi.bitnet (J. Yang)] [Source: World Journal] (4) Fang Lizhi, a leading Chinese dissident who took refuge at the US Embassy in Beijing last June after the crackdown by the regime as an anti- government protester, was named winner yesterday of this year's Robert F. Kennedy human rights award. The organization said Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity trade movement in Poland, will deliver a speech honoring Fang during a visit by Walesa to Washington next month. [From: wyc@BUCRSB.BU.EDU] [Source: Boston Globe, 10/19/89] (5) Recently, three free booklets available from the Chinese consulates. Their titles are: I. A true record of the Spring-Summer Riot in Beijing ( Beijing Chunxia Fengbo Shilu), II. A dialogue on the Spring-Summer Riot in Beijing (Beijing Chunxia Fengbo Shimo Tan). III. The Truth of the Spring-Summer Riot in Beijing (Beijing Chunxia Fengbo Zhenxiang). For those who interested in collecting information, they may get the booklets. [From: BYANG@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (BIN YANG)] (6) China reacts against Norway in the same way as Adolf Hitler did 1933 when Carl von Ossietzky received the Nobel Peace Prize, said Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee Egil Aarvik to SvD. China has urged that the official Norway keeps away from the Peace Prize ceremony on 10 December. China has also let us understand that an official acceptance of Dalai Lama will get consequencies. Foreign Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik says that the (Norwegian) government will not ignore the tradition, which means that Dalai Lama will be able to meet King Olav, and members of the government, with the Premier, will attend the ceremony. [From: wenguo@china.se (Wenguo Pei)] [Source: Svenska Dagbladet, 10/20/89] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. China Denies Economy in Slump, Despite Figures ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.uu.net (Chan Ki Wa) [Source : South China Morning Post, 10/22/89] China's Premier Li Peng has reassured his countrymen that the economy, after showing its worst performance in over three years, is not headed for a tailspin. He also vowed once again that Western economic pressure, though an added burden, would eventually be overcome. "China's economy will not contract, despite what some Western economists say," the People's Daily yesterday quoted Mr Li as saying. "There are some Western nations that are pressuring us and applying economic sanctions," he told Thai Vice-Premier Bhichai Rattakul during a meeting in Beijing. "But this will not have much impact. China has a great deal of ability to resist pressure," he said, expressing his thanks for friendlier policies adopted by Thailand. Western nations have cut military co-operation and halted government credits to China since a bloody army crackdown on a pro-democracy campaign in June. Trade sanctions, however, have not been applied. Mr Li, a communist hardliner who has actively promoted an economic retrenchment policy started 13 months ago, made the remarks ahead of key meeting of the party's central committee. "At the moment, our economy faces problems - the rate of growth has fallen and the market is soft," Mr Li said. "But this is because we are rectifying our state enterprises and improving opportunities for providing even more varieties of goods." "They could avoid negative growth by pumping more cash into the system," said a Western economist. "It is possible that is what they already have in mind," said another foreign economist. A spokesman for the State Statistical Bureau said on Friday that austerity measures had brought inflation down markedly - to 13 per cent in September from a first-half peak of more than 25 per cent. But he added they had led to stockpiling of goods, capital shortages,loan defaults and a 123% surge in losses of state firms in the first nine months. Earlier Mr Zhang Yi, an agriculture official, said private businesses in rural areas would be shut down immediately if they were found to be poorly managed, and others could expect to see their public funds cut off. But collectives would continue to receive government loans, Mr Zhang said. "Inefficient, mismanaged and money-losing enterprises which have been squandering energy and raw materials are to be closed immediately," Mr Zhang said, without saying what would happen to the millions of workers they employ. The private sector has been a main target of the new Communist Party leadership's major political overhaul. ########################## END ##############################################