Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon From: chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) Newsgroups: ut.chinese Subject: Oct. 29 (I), News Digest Message-ID: <8910291644.AA02043@vlsi.waterloo.edu> Date: 29 Oct 89 11:44:58 GMT Sender: Distribution: ut Lines: 197 Approved: nobody@csri.toronto.edu Original-To: china-distribution@cs.toronto.edu * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Oct. 29, 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines 1) Plane Crash Killed 56 in Taiwan 9 2) If You Are Honored to Be in TAM Square on Oct. 1 ... 15 3) Policy of Overseas Study: New Regulation Drafted 62 4) Faxing to China: a Campaign by 15 Worldwide Magazines 35 5) Chinese Minister Tells Nixon: Ties With U.S. Must Be Mended 43 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Plane Crash Killed 56 in Taiwan 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- BY: United Press International, October 26, 1989 (From JD) TAIPEI, Taiwan A China Airlines plane carrying 56 people crashed into a mountain and burned shortly after takeoff Thursday from the city of Hualien on a flight to Taipei, officials said. All aboard were feared killed. The Boeing 737 left the airport at Hualien at 6:55 p.m. and crashed less than five minutes later into nearby Chia Mountain, according to airline public relations director Luo Chi. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. If You Are Honored to Be in TAM Square on Oct. 1 ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: MBCSPSW@CMS.MANCHESTER-COMPUTING-CENTRE.AC.UK [Source: soc.culture.china, 10/28/89] (By Sanyee) A Chinese woman came here recently from Beijing. She told me something about the dancing party on Tian An Men Square on Oct.1 evening. No students were allowed to be there. All the young people were from local work units. Every unit sent 50 people. Only those who did not joint the march could become one of these. Once a person was decided to be one of these 50, he/she had to be there, no matter what happened, even if he/she was sick. Everybody had to have two photo pictures: one was kept by authroity, the other would be carried by this person on his/her chest on that evening. Once they entered the square, they could not leave freely. When someone wanted to go to bathroom, he had to find 5 people, and get a ticket from the authority. Isn't this sound radiculous? But that is the way it is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Policy of Overseas Study: New Regulation Drafted ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DATELINE: BEIJING (AP) October 26, 1989 (From JD) China is sending as many government-sponsored students abroad this year as in past years but will make changes in their criteria and where they are sent, an official said Thursday. The official did not comment on privately funded students. The government is expected to enact new regulations that will sharply limit their numbers. For all of 1989, 5,000 students are being sent abroad with central government funds, the official Xinhua News Agency quoted the unidentified official of the Overseas Students Service Center as saying. It said this is the same number as were sent in each of the past two years. In other recent statements, the government put the number being sent annual at 3,000. The discrepancy could not immediately be resolved. Xinhua noted the figure did not include students sent by local governments or work units. It also does not include students who find private sponsors or win scholarships from overseas colleges. "Rational readjustment will be carried out this year in respect to the percentage of students sent to various countries and the composition of students," the official said. "Improvement is needed in the selection of students. The tendency to stress foreign language only while neglecting comprehensive quality should be put right." He did not elaborate, but education officials have said students should show they are ideologically sound as well as academically qualified. The government also has said it will send fewer students for long-term degree programs, and more short-term visiting scholars. China is concerned that many students sent overseas have failed to return, and many of those who do return are filled with Western economic and political ideas, such as democracy. The impact of this new policy has yet to be felt because many students going abroad this year made arrangements well in advance. There have been individual cases of students or older scholars who planned to go overseas but have not been permitted to because of suspected involvement in the crushed spring democracy movement. The State Education Commission has drafted new regulations that would sharply cut the number of overseas students by requiring college graduates to first work at least five years in China, according to sources in the commission and at universities. The requirement would apply to students who find their own financial sponsors or win scholarships from foreign schools. They are estimated to number several thousand each year. The sources say the draft regulations are still being discussed but likely will be approved next year. More than half of China's approximately 80,000 students abroad are in the United States, and the rest are concentrated in Japan, Australia and Canada. English is the second language studied by most college students. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Faxing to China: a Campaign by 15 Worldwide Magazines ------------------------------------------------------------------------- BY: POPYK, LISA DATELINE: PARIS (UPI) October 26, 1989 (From JD) Chinese dissidents teamed up with 15 worldwide magazines Thursday to launch "Operation Fax Liberty into China," a campaign to flood Chinese facsimile machines with pro-democracy messages. The campaign begins Friday when the French magazine Actuel hits the streets, calling on readers to tear out a one-page "newspaper," written in Chinese by Paris-based Chinese dissidents, and send it by facsimile to one of 5,200 fax machines in China. Over the next three months, the 14 other participating magazines will publish similar news stories, also written by the Federation for Democracy in China. The Chinese stories are accompanied by a translations in other languages. "Hopefully, this will break the wall of silence in China," said Yan Jiaqi, president of the Democratic Federation, which was formed in September by dissidents who fled their homeland in the wake of the June 4 massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. "We feel (the operation) fits in perfectly with our non-violent and pacifist battle" against repression in China, Yan told a news conference Thursday. A spokesman for Actuel said the magazine hopes that by Friday night its readers will have faxed, at $3.25 each, 1,000 copies of the newspaper to the designated hotels, universities, businesses and embassies in China. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. Chinese Minister Tells Nixon: Ties With U.S. Must Be Mended ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 89 18:05:55 EST From: "mr. yawei" Chinese Minister Tells Nixon Ties With U.S. Must Be Mended BEIJING - Foreign Minister Qian Qichen toasted former U.S. President Richard Nixon Saturday for restoring ties between their nations 17 year ago. He said the ties must now be mended in the interests of world peace. Qian spoke at a welcoming banquet for Nixon on the first evening of his private visit to China as a guest of the government. The visit is Nixon's sixth to China, beginning with the 1972 trip that began a rapproachment after decades of hostility. Nixon's schedule and length of stay are unknown. Nixon was greeted by Vice Foreign Minister Liu Huaqiu. ''The overall interests of safeguarding world peace and the long-term interests of our two countries ... require us to make a success of Chinese-U.S. relations,'' the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Qian as saying in his banquet toast. ''Chinese-U.S. relations are at a crossroads,'' he said. ''We sincerely hope that the U.S. government will weigh the pros and cons and take a forward-looking approach so that Chinese-U.S. relations may return to the track of normal development at an early date.'' Qian's comments were milder and more hopeful than any other recent government statements, most of which have bitterly accused the U.S. of interfering in Chinese affairs. The U.S. has criticized China's use of the army in June to crush student pro-democracy protests and its subsequent arrests of thousands of protesters and dissidents. It also has given refuge in its embassy in Beijing to two well-known dissidents. The U.S. is allowing Chinese studying in the U.S. to over- stay their visas for one year if they fear political persecution at home. Qian blamed the U.S. for the current tension, but only indirectly, and emphasized common ground. ============================================================================= +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Deming Tang E_mail: Tang@ALISUVAX.bitnet | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ This package is from G. Xu. ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu .