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

		    (ND Canada Service)

                       -- Jan. 8 (I), 1990


Table of Contents
                                                                 No.  of Lines
 Brief News  ..........................................................  29
 1. Police Detain American Teacher at Beijing  ........................  31
 2. Mainland Students Meet to Map Strategy Against Bush Veto  .........  32
 3. Chinese Salute Romania Revolution  ................................  38
 4. Developments in EE and SU: Albania, "Beacon" of Stalinism  ........  35
 5. Book Review [Reader's Digest] .....................................  43


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 Brief News
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From: ls2r+zhiyong@andrew.cmu.edu and yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu
Source: Voice of Free China, 1/7/90, and Associated Press, 1/5/90

VFC -- Minzhen branch in Taiwan will be established formally on June 6, 1990
to commemorate the 1989 Democratic Movement in China.  This was announced by
General Secretary Wan Runnan of Minzhen (Federation for  Democratic  China).
The preparation committee is headed by Professor Wu from Sun Yat-sen Univer-
sity.  The name of the Minzhen branch will  be  "The  Committee  to  Promote
Chinese Democracy" (Zhongguo Minzhu Cujinhui).

AP, Beijing -- The government has quietly  released  three  Beijing  college
students  jailed  for taking part in the spring democracy movement.  College
students said three students from the Beijing  College  of  Aeronautics  who
were  arrested  returned  to their dormitories Thursday night. Other sources
said some older intellectuals who supported  the  protests  also  have  been
released in the past few weeks, but no figures were available. None of those
released was prominent in the protests.

    Nine Chinese U.N. employees are protesting orders to  return  home  when
their contracts expire and say their pro-democracy activities are being held
against them, U.N. staff officials said.  But U.N. spokesman Francois Giuli-
ania  said  Friday the cases were examined and that the "contracts cannot be
renewed unless their government asks us to do so." The U.N. employees  union
has  protested  to Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar on their behalf
and its officials have said they will support the Chinese if they seek  pol-
itical asylum.


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1. Police Detain American Teacher at Beijing
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From: QIANGLI@SERVAX.BITNET
Source: United Press International, 1/6/90

Beijing -- Chinese police have detained an elderly American   teacher  at  a
Beijing  college  for allegedly taking photographs that "they  termed porno-
graphic," a U.S. Embassy spokesman said Saturday.   Other  foreign  teachers
acquainted  with  the man detained, however, said they believed the incident
may be politically motivated because he is a Romanian ethnic.

    "They said he was detained for taking photographs which they termed por-
nographic," the US embassy spokesman said. "We haven't heard his side of the
story yet."

    Tabor was expected to be released from detention on Monday, the  spokes-
man  said.  Chinese authorities could not be reached for comment late Satur-
day.  Foreign teachers contacted at the institute said they knew  only  that
he was taken away by police on Friday.

    The foreign teachers suggested, however, the incident may have political
implications. The Aeronautics Institute has been the scene of renewed polit-
ical unrest recently despite last spring's  crackdown  on  the   student-led
democracy  movement. "He's a Romanian, and maybe they're afraid of him," one
teacher said.

    Seven students from the Aeronautics Institute were arrested  last  month
for  staging a daring protest outside a government ministry. A graduate stu-
dent was also arrested last week for putting up a poster on  campus  hailing
the Romania upheaval, foreign teachers said.


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2. Mainland Students Meet to Map Strategy Against Bush Veto
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From: lin@Neon.Stanford.EDU
Source: Associated Press, 1/6/89

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US -- About 200 Chinese students and a  California
lawmaker  met  at  Harvard  University on Saturday to organize opposition to
President Bush's veto of legislation protecting Chinese from deportation.

    Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the bill's sponsor, encouraged students  to
pressure  federal  legislators to override the veto.  The measure, which re-
ceived overwhelming support in Congress, would prevent the  Immigration  and
Naturalization  Service  from  forcing  Chinese  students to return to their
homeland after their student visas expire.

    Bush argued that a presidential directive would serve the same  function
as  the bill. Pelosi said, however, that a directive was not as strong as an
executive order and can be withdrawn whenever the president pleases.

    Zhao Haiching, chairman of the National Committee on Chinese Student Af-
fairs,  said  White  House  officials had told him the veto was necessary to
give the president flexibility in foreign policy. "What does the administra-
tion  mean  by  'flexible?' We don't want to be flexible with our lives," he
said.

    "President Bush is wrong to try to cozy up to the leaders in Beijing who
ordered the massacre last June in Tiananmen Square," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
D-Mass., said in a statement delivered to the group. "We must do  everything
possible to ensure that these brave students do not become pawns or bargain-
ing chips in the administration's future dealings with that  repressive  re-
gime," Kennedy said.


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3. Chinese Salute Romania Revolution
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From: QIANGLI@SERVAX.BITNET
Source: Associated Press, 1/5/90

Beijing -- "Salute the heroic, fearless Romanian people," reads one postcard
mailed  to  the Romanian Embassy in Beijing. It is signed, "a Chinese." "The
dictator is ousted, welcome a new era," begins another,  signed  "a  Chinese
citizen."

    The embassy has received several dozen messages of congratulations  from
official  Chinese  institutes,  workers  and even a soldier in the two weeks
since Romanian citizens rose up against hard-line Communist  leader  Nicolae
Ceausescu.

    "All expressed solidarity with the Romanian people and satisfaction with
what  happened in our country, but said nothing about their own problems," a
Romanian diplomat said Friday, speaking on condition of anonymity.

    The  diplomat  was  amazed  that  Chinese  mail  workers  delivered  the
postcards  with daring references to "the reactionary ruler" and "the dicta-
tor." "They must have seen the messages, they are open," he said.

    The postcards were anonymous, but one letter came from  workers  at  the
No.  2  Automobile Factory in central China, a leading state-owned facility,
and two Chinese who telephoned from Beijing factories said  they  spoke  for
their  co-workers.  Even a unit of the government-run Chinese Academy of So-
cial Sciences and several other state institutions sent signed letters,  the
diplomat  said -- before Chinese Premier Li Peng and President Yang Shangkun
recognized the new Romanian government Dec. 27.

    The diplomats said that like  the  Chinese,  they  received  information
about  the  fighting  in  Romania mainly from foreign news reports. But many
Chinese, assuming the embassy had up-to-date information, called  and  asked
for the latest news. "They told us they were listening to the Voice of Amer-
ica and British Broadcasting Corp.  They said they were keeping their radios
on, just like in June," one said.


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4. Developments in EE and SU: Albania, "Beacon" of Stalinism
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From: yawei@aqua.bacs.indiana.edu
Source: Associated Press, 1/7/90

Vienna -- The Communist leaders of isolated Albania  have  staunchly  denied
any  intention  of  following  the trend toward democracy in Eastern Europe.
But Communist leader Ramiz  Alia  may  come  under  increasing  pressure  to
change, both from abroad and inside the country.

    Cautious reforms inside the nation increasingly conflict with  adherence
to the rigid communism of Albania's founding father, Enver Hoxha.

    There were unconfirmed reports of unrest at Tirana University's  student
dorms  last summer. Yugoslav media, in reports denied by Albanian officials,
have spoken of anti-government protests in the cities of Shkodra  and  Korca
last fall.

    King Leka I, the pretender to Albania's throne who has  lived  in  South
Africa  for  the  past  10 years, said in an interview published Friday that
leaflets urging Albanians to overthrow their hard-line  government  will  be
dropped by balloon into the closed Balkan nation bordering the Adriatic.

    Albanian emigre groups in Europe, meanwhile, are said to have petitioned
West European parliaments to help the Albanians win freedom.

    Dec. 12, Alia justified the refusal to follow Eastern Europe by  stress-
ing  that Albania, which severed ties with Moscow in 1961 and China in 1978,
is not like other Communist countries.

    Albania is the last East European country to revere Josef Stalin,  whose
statue stands in the capital, Tirana.  Even more important is Hoxha. He died
in 1985, but his name remains sacred for Albania's leaders,  who  last  year
opened a museum to enshrine his every deed in the national memory.
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5. BOOK REVIEW TWO [Reader's Digest, January 1990, An Editorial Review
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                 by Robert Nielsen, pp. 136-140; condensed by
                 luxin@uwovax.uwo.ca]

Zbigniew Brzezinski
THE GRAND FAILURE: THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF COMMUNISM IN THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
$27.95

The  former  U.S.  national  security adviser, now a professor of
government  at Columbia University, declares that the revolution-
ary  movement  that  has  shaken  the world during the past seven
decades  is  in "terminal crisis." Communism has failed miserably
to  live  up  to its promises -- especially its promise of a good
life  for  the  "toiling  masses"  -- is convincing. Examples are
these disclosures of Soviet living conditions:

At least 50 million deaths has been caused by the communism move-
ment.   Most of these deaths and shattered lives can be blamed on
two men, Stalin and Mao Zedong. Stalin caused at least 20 million
deaths by his purges, farm collectivezation and terror campaigns.
Another  20  million  were  arrested,  driven  from their land or
blacklisted.  Although  figures  of equal reliability are lacking
for  China,  it's  possible  that  Mao surpassed Stalin as a mass
killer.  In the brutal effort to force peasants into the People's
Communes  in  the late '50s and early '60s, perhaps as many as 27
million peasants died.

Brzezinski traces these horrors back to the theories of Karl Marx
and  the  practices  of Lenin. The "grand failure" is rooted in a
"grand  oversimplification"  -- the idea that private property is
the  root  of all evil, and that its abolition would lead to true
justice and the perfection of human nature. At its simplest level
this doctrine justified violence against "enemies of the people,"
the  owners of property and wealth. Adapting Marx to Russian con-
ditions,  Lenin added the idea of dictatorship by an elite in the
name  of the working class.  His dogmatic intolerance made anyone
who  disagreed with him an enemy to be crushed. "It was Lenin who
created the system that created Stalin."

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