CND 12-2-92
Anthony Lee
* * * C h i n a N e w s D i g e s t * * *
(News Global)
Wednesday, February 12, 1992
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1. News Brief (6 items) .................................................54
2. Ye Qiaobo Took Silver in 500m Speedskating in Winter Olympics ........30
3. Story of Olympic Silver Medalist Ye Qiaobo ...........................63
4. Remember The Trial, Remember The Men:
Hou Xiaotian Appeals for Wang Juntao & Chen Ziming to the World ......86
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1. News Brief (6 items) .................................................54
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[UPI 2/11/92] TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The government said Tuesday Taiwan's largest
opposition political party would be disciplined and possible disbanded for
calling for independence for the Republic of Taiwan. Vice Premier Shih
Chi-Yang said the Democratic Progessive Party clearly violated Taiwan's
constitution by calling for the island's independence in a party platform
adopted last October. (From: Bernard Chang)
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[Reuter 2/11/92] BEIJING -- Nine people were crushed to death by an oncoming
locomotive after they jumped from a burning train compartment in south
China, officials said on Tuesday. The accident, on the busy line linking
the capital, Beijing, with Guangdong province in the south, occurred on
Sunday night in Hunan province, an official of the Canton Railway Bureau
said by telephone. The fire started when a smouldering cigarette butt
thrown by a passenger ignited some plastic. (From: A CND Reader)
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[AFP 2/10/92] BONN, Germany -- U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
wants to increase the number of permanent members of the U.N. Security
Council from five to 10 by admitting Germany, Japan, India, Brazil, and
Nigeria, the weekly Der Spiegel reported Monday. A spokesman for the foreign
ministry here said Sunday the German Government was not aware of
Boutros-Ghali's plan. Japanese Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe told the
Bonn newspaper General Anzeiger that Tokyo would not take any initiative in
the matter. (From: Tina Tong)
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[UPI 2/11/92] PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen
arrived Tuesday on the first visit to Phnom Penh by a senior leader from
Beijing in more than 13 years and urged Cambodia's former warring factions
to respect a 4-month-old cease-fire. ``I want to ask all the parties who
made allegations of cease-fire violations to do their utmost to achieve a
reconciliation,'' Qian said in a statement at the royal palace of Prince
Sihanouk, leader of the Supreme National Council, Cambodia's interim
governing body. (From: Bernard Chang)
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[New Issue Bulletin, China Stamp Agency in North America] The second series
of the twelve "Animals of the Year" has begun with the issuance of two
stamps, designed with the paper-cut expression full of folk flavor, for the
Year of the Monkey on Jan. 25, 1992. For the first time since the founding
of the People's Republic of China, the English word "CHINA" is found printed
on the commemorative stamps. The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications
has announced that the English word will appear on all future issues. In
addition, beginning with the monkey issue, the Chinese characters ZhongGuo
RenMin YouZheng (The People's Post of China) will be replaced by ZhongGuo
YouZheng (China Post). (From: Raymond C. Luh <l...@nas.nasa.gov>)
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[The Independent, 2/6/92 by Kevin Hamlin] Britain has indicated it would not
oppose the installation of a senior Chinese military official in the highest
organ of Hong Kong's post-1997 government, a move that could seriously
damage local confidence and may breach the spirit of 1984's Joint
Declaration. (From: Tina Tong)
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2. Ye Qiaobo Took Silver in 500m Speedskating in Winter Olympics ........30
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From: Liang Li <lia...@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Source: AP 2/11/92
ALBERTVILLE, France -- Bonnie Blair gave the United States its first gold
medal of the Winter Games and made Olympic history Monday at Albertville,
France by becaming the first repeat speed skating's 500-meter event (she
finished in 40.33 seconds). Her last one was in Calgary in 1988.
China's Ye Qiaobo, who missed out on a medal because of a doctor's mistake
in 1988, finished second to Blair in another controversy (40.51 seconds).
"My whole team cried for me," said Ye, who was in tears after she lost
precious hundredths of a second in a near-collision with Russia's Elena
Tiouchiakova. "Maybe I will never get another chance."
Ye, one of the world's top sprinters the last four years, flunked a drug
test just before the 1988 Olympics in Calgary and was suspended for 15
months. The banned substance was a common Chinese medicine that costs the
equivalent of a U.S. penny. [See item No.3 of this CND issue]
Skating in the second pair, Ye pulled ahead of Tiouchiakova after a slow
start.
In the speed skating, the skater crossing from the outer lane to the inner
lane has the right of way because she has skated in longer distance.
Tiouchiakova, in the inner lane, didn't immediately yield to Ye, then pulled
back when she realized her mistake as the skater near the far turn.
The hesitation caused Ye to raise up momentarily, and she estimated the
mistake cost her two-tenths of a second. She lost to Blair by 18-hundredths.
Germany's Christa Luding, a 500 gold medalist in 1984 and silver medalist in
1988, won the bronze in 40.57 seconds.
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3. Story of Olympic Silver Medalist Ye Qiaobo ...........................63
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From: A CND Reader in Chicago
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
By: Jay Mariotti
ALBERTVILLE, France -- Another Olympic doping scandal went public Monday.
The story of Chinese speed-skater Ye Qiaobo, who finished second in the 500
meters, is about a doctor who allegedly doped her, a country that disowned
her and a system that might have failed her.
Breaking down and crying during a postrace news conference, Ye revealed she
was banned from the 1988 Games in Galgary after failing a drug test. She
wouldn't identify the drug or confirm if it was performance-enhancing, but
she did say it was prescribed to her by a Chinese team doctor who told her
the drug was legal. She said the drug did not make her strong, it made her
fat.
"It is a long and sad story," she said in broken English. "The first time
he gave us the drug, everybody asked the doctor, 'What's the medicine?' The
doctor told everybody, 'No problem, it's good for health.' He told us
nothing about the doping."
Ye said she took the drug for three months. "The doctor told us it is a
medicine you can buy really cheap, one (US) dollar for 100 pieces," she
said. When she arrived at the 1988 World Sprint Championships in West
Allis, Wis., one week before the Galgary Games, she was administered random
testing. Her urine happened to be tested, along with that of another female
Chinese skater, and doctors found both samples to be dirty.
Notified in Galgary that she was banned from the Games, she said she was
stunned and frightened about the reaction in China. As she flew home, she
said she felt like dying. Ye knew she would be condemned in her homeland,
even before anyone heard her story.
"I really wished the plane had gone down," she said. "What can I say? What
can I answer to my parents, my sister, my best of friends? I wanted to give
up skating. I didn't want to go home."
She was banned from competition for 15 months by the Chinese federation. And
when a Chinese newspaper got wind of the story in 1989, she said it made her
out to be a dope fiend. "Smeared me," she said. The irony was, her father is
an editor at the newspaper. He tried to have the paper hold the story until
Ye was permitted by the government to discuss her side, which they told her
would be in 1990. But the paper ran the story anyway, without both side.
"It was terrible," she said. "I have people tell me, 'You don't need any
dope to win gold medal. What are you doing? You're disgracing country.' No
one wanted to hear my side."
At that point of the interview, Ye started to pound the table and sob. "I
wanted to stand up and shout, 'I don't do no wrong!' No one would listen.
They made me feel like I was not a person."
Finally, after three years of persecution, Ye was allowed to tell her side
to Chinese press late last year. Now there is a compassion for her in China,
two Chinese reporters said Monday.
"People write me letters with good words in them," Ye said. "They tell me to
go on and win gold medal."
Ye came close to gold Monday, finishing .18 second behind American Bonnie
Blair before losing an appeal. Ye charged that Unified Team member Elena
Tiouchniakova interfered with her in their heat, costing her precious time.
But her request for another run, by herself, was denied.
"I wanted to win gold to show people I could do it and was for real, no
doping," Ye said. "Maybe with silver, people will know I'm real."
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4. Remember The Trial, Remember The Men:
Hou Xiaotian Appeals for Wang Juntao & Chen Ziming to the World ......86
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From: Dennis Lee
Source: Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement
On January 5, 1992, the Canadian Parliamentarian Human Rights Delegation to
China met with Hou Xiaotian and Chen Ziming's mother Wu Yongfen in Beijing.
The Delegation was very much moved by these two couragous women's struggling
for human rights and justice.
On February 10, 1992, we receive the following appeal from Hou Xiaotian, the
wife of Wang Juntao.
Richard Lee
Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement
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[verbatim]
REMEMBER THE TRIAL, REMEMBER THE MEN
Again My Appeal to The World
HOU XIAOTIAN
It is almost more than two years' time since the June 4th 1989 but people
would not forget the day. It is already one year since the unfair trial of
Wang Juntao and people would not forget the case neither, especially I would
never forget it. Within the year I have experienced all the time the
misfortune the trial had brought to us. Let us recall the days.
On February 12 1991, Wang Juntao was tried and sentenced. By the time he had
suffered the chronic hepatitis B and went to the court with the weak body.
Till the last moment of the trial he even could not hold on himself.
However, after the sentence, he, taken as a healthy person, was transfered
to the Beijing 2nd Prison on April 2. The authority intended to hide Wang
Juntao's real health condition to the Labour Reform Bureau and insisted on
putting him into prison. According to our law, Labour Reform Bureau may not
receive any sentenced who has infectious disease or very serious illness.
The condition in Beijing 2nd Prison is very poor and far from the standard
made by our law. He was isolated in a cell less than 4 square meters. It is
dark, damp, insect-harassed and bad air circulation. Even a healthy person
living long in such conditions could get pathological changes, let alone he
had been sick already. The authority ignored the protest by Wang Juntao
himself and his relatives and insisted on the illegal prisoning until his
hunger strike in August and a tide of international protests.
September 4, Wang Juntao was transfered to a hospital located in Yanqing
Prison which is also under Labour Reform Bureau and given some medical
treatment. Up to December 18, I could only be informed that he had chronic
hepatitis B but his illness was actually diagnosed early at the beginning of
the year. We can see that the treatment was delayed exactly for a whole
year. In one year's time his disease could surely become worse since he
lived in very poor surroundings. Now I could only hope that his disease can
be halted worsening. I do not wish [expected?] he can be cured completely
but at least present situation can be kept.
For one year's time, as Wang Juntao's wife, a counter-revolutionary's
relative, I could not have my deserved rights and freedom. From April, I was
followed and my home was searched secretly. In May, I lost my job. In June,
August, September and October I was followed again and again. In November I
was not only followed but also detained illegally. For two months of August
and September my regular visit to Prison was stopped. In January 1992, I
applied to permit Wang Juntao to come out for medical treatment but till now
I have not got any answer, but by the same time I learned that the
government would not allow me to go abroad. In February we both asked to
have one child, the authority refused our request by an excuse that Wang
Juntao did not plead guilty, so in Chinese New year holidays we could only
have a meet and talk for a little while.
This is the year that five time I transfered my home, three times I became
unemployed and twice I lived in hospital.
In this year, I not only once appealed to the international world but Wang
Juntao and Chen Ziming are still jailed without any freedom. I will ask how
long the June 4th's effect continues and how much misfortune we still have
to suffer. Today, in the anniversary of Wang Juntao's trial I again appeal
the justice of the world and ask all friends who are concerning us to
continue your kind help because my effort is not strong enough and limited.
I consider that the trial of Wang Juntao and Chen Ziming does not aim at
these individuals but at the June 4th Movement. The trial of them was the
most solemn part of that democratic movement. Although those jailed are
only Wang Juntao, Chen Ziming and others, all those who had participated,
concerned and sympathized with the movement, local or foreign, were also
brought to this unfair trial. Starting from any reason, either for saving
Wang Juntao and other political prisoners' lives or for justifying the June
4th movement, let's make a further effort to appeal to Chinese government to
release Wang Juntao and other political prisoners, to let them have freedom
they deserved and to stop the tragedy of the June 4th.
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SNAIL: Department Computer Science, University of Qld,
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