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             * C h i n a   N e w s   D i g e s t *


		    (ND Canada Service)

                       -- Dec. 19 (II), 1989


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1. FCSSC Forum on Democracy Strategy and Work Plans .................... 30
2. Army Urged to Improve Public Image .................................. 71
3. Rumanian Protesters Were Shot ....................................... 20

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1.     FCSSC  Forum on Democratic Strategy and Work Plans
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by  Xu Zhequn, on behalf of FCSSC

FCSSC's  forum on democratic strategy and work plans will be held
at  York  University, Toronto on Jan. 13,1990. The forum is spon-
sored by FCSSC with other pro-democracy organizations invited.

The main objectives of the forum are: 1) Discuss and work out the
democratic  strategy and future work plans; 2) Promote the muture
understanding  among  the  students  organizations and other pro-
democracy organizations; 3) Discuss the possibility of establish-
ment of a national pro-democracy coordinating committee.

So  far there are students representatives from over 20 universi-
ties  across  Canada  and  Chinese Canadians representatives from
over  7  pro-demo  cracy organizations registering for the forum.
The total number of participants is about 100.

Three guest speakers, Mr.Liu Yongchuan of IFCSS; Mr.Cao Changqing
of  Press Freedom Herald and Mr.Xu Bantai of Chinese Alliance for
Democracy  will  come  as  the  quest speakers and address on the
forum.  Two  of  the  quest speakers, Cao Changqing and Xu Bantai
will  also  be  invited  to  give  speeches in a number of cities
across Canada.

The  organizing  committee  include  Democracy  China-Ottawa  and
Chinese students from University of Western Ontario, York Univer-
sity.

From:     IN%"FS300310@YUGemini"      17-DEC-1989     22:16:33.56

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FCSSC == Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, Canada
      ==  Quan Jia Xue Lian  (2,1,2,2)    (in Chinese)
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2. ARMY URGED TO IMPROVE PUBLIC IMAGE
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[South China Morning Post, Tuesday, December 19, 1989]
[By Willy Wo-Lap Lam]     hkucs!kwchan@uunet.uu.net

 A  just  concluded  conference on political work in the People's
Liberation  Army  (PLA) has called for promoting ideological dis-
cipline  and  improving  relations between the Army and the popu-
lace.

 While  serving to build support for the leadership of party Gen-
eral Secretary, Mr Jiang Zemin, who was elevated to Central Mili-
tary  Commission  (CMC) chairman in early November, the seven-day
CMC-sponsored conference also confirmed the growing clout of Gen-
eral Yang Baibing, the commission's newly promoted general secre-
tary.

 General  Yang, brother of military strongman President, presided
over the meeting and presented a paper entitled Issues Concerning
Ways of Strengthening and Improving Army Political Work under New
Circumstances.

 The  document  listed  endeavours in ten areas to "guarantee the
party's  absolute  control  over the Army" and to ensure that the
rank  and  file  will rally around the "party centre with comrade
Jiang Zemin as its core".

 The  foremost task for the Army is to promote ideological indoc-
trination  -  "the  lifeline  of the PLA" - to make sure that the
Army "remain forever up to scratch in political matters".

 Aside  from  being  obedient  to party directives, the Army must
heed  the  "Four Cardinal Principles" of Marxism and combat bour-
geois liberalisation, Beijing's code word for Western influence.

 In  future, officers will be promoted on the basis of "rectitude
and  ability".   This, the document noted, is to ensure that "the
gun is in the hands of people who are politically reliable".

 Among  the  most  important  recommendations  in  General Yang's
report is to improve relations with the general populace.

 "We  must insist on the principle of officers and soldiers stay-
ing in unison and the military and the people staying in unison,"
the  document  said.  "We must maintain and develop good internal
and external relationships".

 Analysts  say  it  is  the first time that the PLA has admitted,
albeit  indirectly, in an official document that the Army's rela-
tionship with the people has reached a crisis point.

 Following  the  Tiananmen  Square crackdown, the prestige of the
Army has fallen to a record low.

 Under military reforms introduced by ousted party chief, Mr Zhao
Ziyang,  who  was  also  CMC first vice-chairman, the PLA has put
professionalism    and    expertise    ahead    of    ideological
indoctrination.

 Analysts  say  the  stress on political work will enable General
Yang  Baibing,  who also doubles as Chief Political Commissar and
member of the Communist Party secretariat, to grasp more power in
both the army and party.

 In  the  meantime,  the  Army's status as China's most important
organisation  is  underlined by a new draft law on the protection
of  military  installations,  which will be discussed at the 11th
meeting  of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Commit-
tee, scheduled to open tomorrow.

 A  spokesman for the NPC standing committee's general office, Mr
Zhang  Husheng,  said yesterday that since 1980, more that 90 NPC
deputies  have  repeatedly proposed the drafting of such a law to
help    protect    the    country's    military    installations.
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3. RUMANIAN PROTESTERS SHOT 
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[Agence France Presse]
[South China Morning Post, Tuesday, December 19, 1989]

 Anti-government  protests  over the weekend in the Rumanian city
of  Timisoara  may  have led to heavy casualties, with one report
suggesting "at least 1,000 people were killed and 200 wounded" by
gunfire.

 Two  Wyrian  medical  students  employed in a Timisoara hospital
claimed to have counted the dead in the hospital morgue.

 "We  saw  at  least 1,000 bodies during Sunday," one of the stu-
dents said.  They had all been shot, he added.

 The  students spoke to Agence France Press after leaving Rumania
for Yugoslavia, via the border town of Vatina.

 However,  reports  of  the  number killed varied widely and none
could be confirmed.

... (detail please see original (very long report)).

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