Newsgroups: uw.chinese Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!jshen From: Bo Chi Subject: News Digest, Feb. 11 Message-ID: <9102111756.AA01962@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: jshen@watdragon Reply-To: "China News (Canada)" Organization: University of Waterloo X-To: cnc-l@uvvm.uvic.ca Distribution: uw Date: Mon, 11 Feb 91 11:37:15 EST Approved: jshen@dragon.uwaterloo.ca Lines: 165 * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * (News General) February 10, 1991 Table of Contents # of Lines News Brief ..............................................................6 1. Rebellion in North Korea Crushed ....................................26 2. Old shells unearthed from tourist site...............................39 3. U.S. Trying to Prevent East Asia Bloc, Mahathir Says ................39 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- News Brief ..............................................................6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: chenh@ucs.indiana.edu Source: AP NEWS 2/9/91 -- Shattering nearly a week of relative calm, an Iraqi Scud missile crashed into a street in populous central Israel before dawn Saturday. At least 26 people were injured and a half-dozen apartments wrecked. -- A senior aide to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein returned to Iran Saturday, reportedly carrying a reply to a secret Iranian plan to end the Gulf War. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Rebellion in North Korea Crushed ....................................26 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Zuofeng Li < zuofeng@pollux.wustl.edu > Source: UPI, Feb. 8, 1991 TOKYO -- North Korea has crushed a rebellion against its leadership and purged counterrevolutionary elements within the ruling Workers Party, Kyodo News Service reported Thursday. Citing Radio Pyongyang, Kyodo said the plot was planned by ``anti-party, anti- revolutionary elements and anti-party revisionists.'' The nature of the plot and names of officials involved were not disclosed. The purge wiped out ``unorthodox ideological tendencies'' within the party and has ``given complete assurance to the purity of its blood lineage,'' the broadcast was quoted as saying. The radio broadcast, monitored in Tokyo, said in a commentary that rebellious elements within the party were all purged under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, the eldest son and heir apparent of President Kim Il Sung, according to Kyodo. It was the first reported plot against the Kims. The elder Kim has ruled the communist-controlled northern half of the Korean Peninsula since the end of World War II. There was no confirmation of the report by the official (North) Korean Central News Agency. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Old Shells Unearthed From Tourist Site...............................39 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Zuofeng Li < zuofeng@pollux.wustl.edu > Source: UPI, Feb. 7, 1991 BEIJING -- Bomb experts removed more than 200 World War II-era artillery shells from the lake at Beijing's Summer Palace after they were unearthed during renovations at the popular tourist site, the official press reported Thursday. The Guangming Daily, a state-run newspaper, said the ordnance had apparently lain undisturbed for about 50 years at the bottom of Kunming Lake, which is used for boating in the summer and ice skating in the winter. Investigators said the shells were dumped into the lake in the late 1930s and early 1940s by Nationalist Chinese troops as they withdrew under the Japanese invasion. The Summer Palace, one of Beijing's most popular tourist attractions, was built in the late 1880s in northwest Beijing by the Empress Dowager Ci Xi. It is now a public park. Work crews drained the shallow lake late last fall and began a silt-clearing operation, but dug up a World War II-era mortar shell in early December, the Guangming Daily said. Officials called in the Chinese army, which sent bomb disposal squads and mine-detection teams that eventually unearthed 205 shells of varying sizes and a number of other kinds of explosives. The newspaper report did not say whether any of the shells was actually still live, but said all the explosives were transported to a military field testing site and destroyed. The English-language China Daily published a photograph of soldiers sweeping the dry lake bottom with mine detectors alongside five shells apparently stood on end for the picture. It said officials determined the shells were manufactured in 1927. ``The hidden trouble in the silt of Kunming Lake has been completely eliminated,'' Zhang Zhixian, a bomb disposal expert, told the Guangming Daily. ``The people of the capital and domestic and foreign tourists can rest assured.'' -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. U.S. Trying to Prevent East Asia Bloc, Mahathir Says ................39 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Source: KYODO 02/06/91 Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said the United States was trying to scuttle the formation of a proposed East Asia economic grouping by trying to influence certain countries against participating. Malaysia will not protest the U.S. effort, Mahathir said, but will continue to woo as many East Asian countries as possible. ''Certainly, they (U.S.) will not like cooperation among other countries as it will prevent their control of the world's economy,'' Mahathir told reporters. Mahathir said that when the U.S. made its free trade agreement with Canada, it did not seek Malaysia's opinion and Malaysia did not interfere. Asked if the U.S. moves will seriously jeopardize the formation of the East Asia group, he said Malaysia was prepared ''to face all difficulties.'' U.S. diplomats denied that the U.S. was working against the formation of the economic group, but some ASEAN diplomats said U.S. officials had approached them on the matter, and pointed out how much the U.S. market was worth to the ASEAN countries. Faced with the collapse of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade talks last year, Mahathir suggested that the East Asian countries form a trade bloc to counter possible future protectionist tendencies emerging in the West. Mahathir envisaged a grouping of the dynamic economies of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and ASEAN with the potentially important markets of China and Indochina. However, the proposal faced its first setback when Japan reacted negatively, saying that it was against the formation of a trade bloc. Mahathir then decided to push his proposal in ASEAN and later persuade the other East Asian countries to join. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines and all have unofficially agreed to endorse the proposed larger grouping at their summit later this year. +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Editor of this issue: JD < B366JDX@UTARLVM1.BITNET > | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | To Subscribe to CND General News, send "SUB CHINA-NN " | | to LISTSERV@ASUACAD.BITNET. To sign off send "SIGNOFF CHINA-NN" to | | same address. 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