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                        Saturday, February 3, 1990

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 0. Brief News: Chinese students among Nobel nominees...................61
 1. U.S. report details human right crimes by China ....................28
 2. China protests new sanctions approved by U.S. Congress..............54
 3. Gorbachev to propose multiparty system for Soviet Union.............30

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 0. Brief News
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  Chinese students among Nobel nominees
  [Associated Press 2-1-90/izzyq00@oac.ucla.edu]

Nominations for the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize closed Thursday. The Norwegian
Nobel Institute reveals only that 80 valid nominations had been received for
56 individuals and 24 organizations.

The list of candidates reportedly included Chinese students and their leader
Chai Ling, whose pro-democracy demonstrations were crushed in June. The
other candidates are Gorbachev, Czech President Havel, Nelson Mandela,
Ronald Reagan, and Czechoslovak students who demostrated agaist the toppled
hard-line regime.

  Dalia Lama arrived in Czechoslovakia
  [UPI 2-2-90/izzyq00@oac.ucla.edu]

The Dalai Lama of Tibet, last year's Nobel Peace prize winner, arrived in
Prague Friday on a five-day visit at the personal invitation of President
Vaclav Havel. A Foreign Ministry source said the visit brought "a rather
sharp protest" from the Chinese ambassador. In Beijing, the Czechoslovak
ambassador to China was summoned to the Foreign Ministry.

  Ferry sank on Yangtze River
  [AP/lin@Neon.Stanford.EDU Fangzhen Lin]
 
A ferry sank after being struck by an oil tanker on the Yangtze River in
central China, killing 70 people and leaving 43 others missing, according the
the Thursday edition of the Shanghai newspaper Liberation Daily. It said the
accident occurred near Anqing in Anhui province. The report gave no details on
the collision. 

  Chinese Ambassador visited Nixon
  [Washington Post 2-1-90/simone@nyspi.bitnet J. Yang]
 
Chinese ambassador Zhu Qizhen visited former president Nixon to exppress
appreciations for his support for President Bush's anti-veto battle. Mr. Bush
also called his old superior to say thank-you's. Before the vote Mr. Nixon
called five Republican senators asking them to support Bush.

  Israeli presence in PRC
  [AP/izzyq00@oac.ucla.edu]

An Israeli scientific academy will open an office in Beijing next month,
establishing the Jewish state's first presence in the Chinese capital, an
Israeli diplomatic source said today. "We think ... academic cooperation is
a good start," the diplomat said. "It is a nice way for two ancient civili-
zations to meet after 4,000 years."

China and Israel do not have formal relations. Beijing has said it will not
normalize ties until Israel returns land seized from Arab countries in 1967.

  Dukakis offers help to Chinese students
  [The Boston Globe 2-1-90/mok@hdsrus.enet.dec.com]

Gov. Dukakis yesterday offered support to Chinese students while meeting
Chinese students from Boston College, the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, and Boston, Harvard and Brandeis universities. Dukakis said that
he would strive to ensure that no Chinese students living and working in
Massachusetts would be subject to any harassment or intimidation by Chinese
officials and that he would work with federal lawmakers seeking to turn
Bush's executive order into law.

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 1. U.S. report details human right crimes by China 
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 [Associated Press 2-2-90/izzyq00@oac.ucla.edu]

The State Department's annual human rights report "describes every human
rights crime you can think of" on the part of the Chinese government, a
congressional source who has seen the unreleased document said Friday night.

The source said, "It describes every human rights crime you can think of:
murders, disappearances, executions, suppression of labor rights, religious
persecution of Catholics and Buddhists, slave labor camps in western China you
name it, it's in there."

Another source said the document avoided high-temperature rhetoric, confining
itself to "factual and accurate" statements.

The two sources were confirming a report about the document broadcast Friday
evening by NBC News. The network quoted from the document: "As of year's end,
there were continuing reliable reports of beatings of political, detainees in
the Beijing area by security forces... prisoners, both criminal and political,
are subjected to severe psychological pressure to confess."

Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger is scheduled to appear before
the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
on successive days next week. The two congressional sources said he was sure
to be questioned about the document.

The annual report is given to the House or Senate committees in alternate
years, and had not been scheduled for release until Feb. 21 by the House
committee.

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 2. China protests new sanctions approved by U.S. Congress 
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 [Associated Press/yawei@ucs.indiana.edu]

China Friday strongly protested U.S. legislation imposing trade sanctions on
China.

It said Congress had ''willfully trampled on the basic norms governing
international relations.''

Separately, President Bush, citing national security grounds, is ordering a
Chinese-owned corporation to sell its interest in a Seattle aircraft parts
company, administration sources said.

Bush's order for the divestiture of the Mamco Manufacturing Co., is the
first time he has taken such action under trade legislation enacted in 1988.

An inter-agency review panel had recommended that China's 1988 purchase of
the company be overturned, according to administration officials who spoke
on the condition of anonymity.

The panel found that the company was involved with sensitive materials that
could have military applications.

Meanwhile, China's protest against new sanctions was lodged by Vice Foreign
Minister Liu Huaqiu in a meeting with U.S. Ambassador James Lilley, the
official Xinhua News Agency said.

Liu said he had been instructed to ''express our utmost indignation and
lodge a strong protest'' against the ''hegemonist act of the U.S. Congress,
which, basing its legislation on rumors, has willfully trampled on the basic
norms governing international relations and wantonly interfered in China's
internal affairs.''

The sanctions bill was passed Wednesday by a 98-0 vote in the Senate after
earlier approval by the House.

It was expected to be signed into law by President Bush. But the legislation
is largely symbolic, reflecting actions Bush took following the military
crackdown of the student-led prodemocracy movement in China last year.

The bill gives the president the power to waive the measures if he deems it
in the national interest or if he can show Congress there have been human
rights improvements in China.

The sanctions suspend financial underwriting for U.S. companies investing in
China and aid under the Trade and Development Program.

Sales of military and crime control equipment are stopped and controls are
put on export of U.S.-built satellites and nuclear cooperation.

The legislation also calls for a review of China's most favored nation
trading status if repression against political dissidents continues. Bush
has already eased some sanctions.

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 3. Gorbachev to propose multiparty system for Soviet Union
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 [Associated Press/yawei@ucs.indiana.edu]

President Mikhail Gorbachev will ask the Communist Party leadership to break
its 7-decade hammerlock on power, a Soviet news agency said Saturday

Gorbachev will ask the Party to accept the possibility of competing political
parties, it said.

The report also said the Soviet leader would propose a complete change in
the party structure.

It also said Gorbachev would tacitly endorse the concept of private ownership.

The stunning disclosures came just 2 days before a party Central Committee
meeting that is expected to be a forum on the future course of the nation
and probably the most crucial test of Gorbachev's five years in power.

If Gorbachev does indeed ask the party to break its monopoly on power, and
the increasingly splintered party leadership agrees, it could thrust the
superpower into a cycle of change.

Such reform already is being played out on a smaller scale throughout the
East bloc.

A bitter fight over reform is expected at the closed-door Central Committee
meeting Monday and Tuesday. Progressives are calling for a multiparty system
and a virtual apology for decades of dictatorship.

Diehard Communists want to retain their lock on power and keep central
planning and collective farming, which have brought the country to economic
ruin.   

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