Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!daemon Date: Mon, 27 Nov 89 05:39:27 EST Sender: From: chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (Bo Chi) Message-ID: <8911271539.AA15804@vlsi.waterloo.edu> Original-To: china-distribution@cs.toronto.edu Subject: Nov. 27 (I), News Digest Newsgroups: ut.chinese Distribution: ut Sender: list-admin@csri.toronto.edu Approved: nobody@csri.toronto.edu | +---------I __L__ ___/ \ -------I +----+----+ | ___\_\_ | \./ | | -----+- | | | | | __ \/ | --+-- |--- | |---| | I----+----I | I__J/\ | __|__ | | | |---| | | | _____ \ | /| \ | | | L__-| | I I---------J / J \/ | | V | J * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (ND Canada Service) -- Nov. 27 (I), 1989 Table of Contents # of Lines Headline News .................................................. 21 1) China Excecutes Pair For Selling Women ...................... 36 2) China's Threat .............................................. 45 3) Yang set for Middle East visit ............................. 25 4) Plan To Ask 40 Countries To Back `Safe Exit' Scheme ......... 63 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Headline News --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Communist Party chief Milos Jakes, the Politburo and the rest of the Communist leadership resigned Friday, the state-run media said. The resignations follow a week of massive pro-democracy protests. Alexander Dubcek returned to Prague Friday, urging 250,000 chanting Czechs to unite to improve the nation. From: yawei@rose.bacs.indiana.edu Source: AP News (2) Radio Beijing News 7pm PDT (in manderine) Nov 25 1989 - Chinese vice miniter of foreign affairs Mr Liu Huaqiu met with US deputy ambassodor in Beijing and strongly protest that US congress passed the bill to loose the 2 years home residence requirement to Chinese students who hold J-1 visa. Chinese government requests president Bush to refuse this bill. Otherwise, Chinese government will have to take strong reaction and US government must be responsible for all the consequences. From: rzhu@violet.waterloo.edu Rupert Zhu Source: Radio Beijing, 7pm PDT, 11/25/89 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. China Excecutes Pair For Selling Women --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" From: ASUCPS::YAOM "M. H. Yao" 25-NOV-1989 Source: BEIJING (AP) November 24, 1989 Two brothers were executed and a third was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and selling 51 women, it was reported Friday. Wang Zhong and Wang Hong were executed Nov. 10 after being convicted in the northern province of Shanxi of abducting women in other provinces, the newspaper Legal Daily said. Two men in southwest China's Sichuan province were put to death in September for heading a ring that kidnapped and sold 24 women, including 22 who suffered mental disorders. The government, in its latest anti-crime campaign, has listed the kidnapping of women and children as one of the "six evils" to be combatted. The others are prostitution, pornography, drugs, gambling and swindling people through superstition. The Legal Daily said kidnap gangs of up to 100 members are operating in every Chinese province, with 90 percent of their victims being peasant girls. The measures used to entice women include offers of jobs, marriage and free travel. "They use sweet words and talk of love to seduce young women, and then kidnap and sell them. They kidnap women who are dull-witted and suffer from nervous disorders. They use violence to kidnap and sell women," the newspaper said. Many women are resold several times and raped, it said. In some places, mostly remote rural regions, where women are bought, "the evil phenomenon of the taking of concubines and polygamy occurs." An earlier report said that in coastal Shandong, China's third-most populous province, more than 3,000 people have been imprisoned in recent years for abducting and selling 30,000 women and 1,000 children. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. China's Threat --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" Source: The Washington Post, November 25, 1989, CHINA'S government is now threatening the United States with retaliation for a bill that Congress has passed. But the greater outrage is President Bush's apparent intention to give in to that threat. Administration officials have suggested that Mr. Bush will accommodate China by vetoing the bill. More than 40,000 Chinese students are in this country, most of them on visas that require them to return home when they have finished their studies. Many of these students vigorously supported the movement toward democracy earlier this year, taking part in demonstrations and other political action here, which brought them to the notice of the Chinese authorities. Some of these students have good reason to be apprehensive about returning to the jurisdiction of the government for whose overthrow they were calling. Congress has sent to Mr. Bush legislation that would suspend the American requirement forcing them to go back. Under normal circumstances, that kind of requirement is reasonable enough. It slows down the brain drain. It says that students trained here have an obligation to go home to their native countries. But after the massacre in Beijing last June, circumstances are not normal. The Chinese government has said that it will deal leniently with those students who demonstrated against it in this country last spring. But there is a re-education campaign in progress in the Chinese universities, and those who return are not likely to find that their past activities have been forgotten. Mr. Bush's inclination to accommodate the Chinese government is incomprehensible. To defend it, people in his administration explain that otherwise China may cut off the exchanges of students and teachers between the two countries. Too bad. If, in other words, the United States doesn't send these students home for political correction, China will refuse to send any more of its young people here to study computer science, medicine, electrical engineering and molecular biology. It will refuse to allow American professors to go to teach in Chinese universities. That's some threat. China needs to understand that, with its crackdown on democracy and dissent, it has done enormous damage to the spirit of cooperation that was growing between it and the United States. As long as that regime is in its present vindictive state of mind, Mr. Bush needs to think very carefully before forcing anyone to return there. To veto this bill would be an astounding acquiescence in Chinese repression. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Yang set for Middle East visit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. Ding" [by David Chen] President Yang Shangkun, who played a key role in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in June, is to visit Egypt, Kuwait and Oman next month, according to reliable sources. This will be his first overseas trip for 2 and a half years as president. He visited Canada and the United States in May 1987 - shortly after the anti-bourgeois liberalisation campaign. The trip is in response to the visit to China by President Hosni Mubarak, as well as those by senior officials of the two other countries. It is intended to show China's interest in and concern for the situation in the Middle East, particularly the relations between the Israelis and the Palestinians, as well as developments in Lebanon. Chinese sources said that in the next two months, and before the coming annual session of the Seventh National People's Congress expected in late March, more overseas visits by senior Government officials are being planned, both to project China's image and to seek further economic co- operation, particularly with Third World nations. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Plan To Ask 40 Countries To Back `Safe Exit' Scheme --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hkucs!kwchan@uunet.UU.net Source : South China Morning Post, November 24, 1989 [By Jacqueline Lee] A civil servants' group has called on the international community to grant Hongkong people passports which would become valid in an emergency. The plan is to ask about 40 countries to back the scheme which would require them to open their doors to a fixed number of Hongkong people in the event of: - An imminent threat to their lives or liberties. - China abrogating the Joint Declaration. - The Joint Declaration not working as intended. - A radical change in the social and economic system of the territory. - China changing its policy towards Hongkong resulting in living conditions deteriorating intolerably. The Association of Government Information Officers has urged Britain to seek support from the European Community, Commonwealth nations and the United States to arrange a "safety exit" for Hongkong. Quotes for different countries would be allocated by a points system where people at the top end of the scale would more likely get passports for the country of their choice. The proposal was drawn up as a "practical alternative" to securing right of abode in the United Kingdom for all 5.6 million people in Hongkong, the association says. "The British Government should work out a scheme to encourage locals to remain in the territory and the scheme should be effective in providing a good safety exit for the people on the one hand, and the necessary confidence to stay in Hongkong and work for the territory's prosperity and stability on the other," it said. The association has also designed a "Span of Safety", of SOS, scheme that would ensure Hongkong people seeking refuge in Britain would move in a regulated stream. Under the SOS scheme, British subjects would be offered British passports valid for 6.5 years from July 1, 1997 to December 31, 2003. The holders would be divided into seven bands in the order of priority and passports for each of the groups would take effect one year after another from July 1, 1997 when Hongkong reverts to China. The first group to be allowed into the United Kingdom would be the smallest consisting of about 20,000 professionals, technicians, entrepreneurs and managers. Subsequent groups would grow progressively with the points system being used to classify people into different priority groups, the association says. "The objective of the SOS scheme is to give confidence to all British subjects here to stay on, with priority given to the backbone of Hongkong society." +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Executive Editor: Yaxiong Lin E_mail: aoyxl@asuacvax.bitnet | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ============================================================================= News Transmission chi@vlsi.uwaterloo.ca (or) -------------------- --------------------- Local Editor: Bo Chi chi@vlsi.waterloo.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mon Nov 27 10:37:58 EST 1989 Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com