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		       Saturday, June 5, 1994   (No. 3)

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1. A summary of current status of the CBS incident.........................47
2. Suggested actions for the next step.....................................48
2. A sample protest letter to CBS..........................................51
4. Where to send your protest letters......................................20
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1. A summary of current status of the CBS incident.........................47
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Within the last two weeks, the anger and protests of our Chinese community
have attracted certain attention in media and reached CBS, thanks to efforts
from many volunteers, IFCSS and many other supportive groups. The following
is from CND-US-94-06-04 report:

"On May 26th, World Journal published a detailed report on CSS community's 
angry response to CBS May 19th "Eye on America" program. It cited Xiaolin 
Li's protest letter, IFCSS HQ's inquiry letter and other opinions from 
Internet. CBS released an official statement to World Journal that "there 
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
is nothing wrong with May 19th CBS report and they regret to hear CSS 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
community's outrage response. All its news broadcasting is aimed to be 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
objective". [The quoted sentence was told to CND editor Chengyan Liu by
^^^^^^^^^^
World Journal reporter Mr. John Xie.]

On June 2nd, IFCSS President Lin Changsheng told CND editor Chengyan Liu
that there was a phone call from CBS to acknowledge acceptance of the
inquiry letter [see CND-US May 25th report]. CBS also said to Mr. Lin that
"it is a mistake. the program is based on a book." When Chengyan Liu asked
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mr. Lin what is a mistake, and on which day from whose office this call was
made, Mr. Lin couldn't remember since he is still in hunger strike and weak.
In the same day, IFCSS Council member Liang Er told Mr. Liu that Silicon
Valley Chinese Engineers Association had located a lawyer to sue CBS for its
May 19th evening news broadcasting.

Today, CND's Chengyan Liu called the office of Ms. Lane Venardos, CBS Vice
President in charge of CBS Evening News brodcasting, try to verify CBS's
phone call to IFCSS HQ. Her secretary made no comment on that regard. The
only thing she told Chengyan Liu is that the reply letter to IFCSS is on its
way, IFCSS HQ should get it in a few days."

Obviously CBS wanted to get rid of its responsibility by argueing the report
was based on the book instead of its own findings. But the transcript of
the program clearly said: "In a special investigation, CBS News found out how
China is grooming agents to keep an Eye on American." Also, the video footage
and the transcript of the program had been constructed in a way far from a
simple reproduction of the book.

This is also unverified report that a Chinese group in Silicon Valley is
preparing law suit against CBS. IFCSS is also investigating possibility
of legal actions. (Editor: Legal actions may lead to the best result when
coordinated.)
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2. Suggested actions for the next step.....................................48
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Given CBS's attitude, we need to continue our protests and push CBS further
until it acknowledges its responsibility and gives a full apology. Besides
legal action, many netter have the following suggestions:

a. Protest letters. We can send our protest letters to CBS, NBC, ABC and our
local area stations, to major newspapers and journals, to Chinese consulates,
by fax and letters.
CBS HQ address: 524 West 57th St. New York, NY 10019.
   Attn: Mr. Eric Ober, President, CBS News; Ms. Connie Chung,CBS Evening News;
         Mr. Tom Anderson, Producer, CBS Evening News; Mr. ???, President.
Fax: E. Ober (212)975-9197. C. Chung (212)975-1519.

b. Protest phone calls. Call CBS to voice your protest
  
1)CBS switchboard:  (212) 975-4321.

   At this phone number you can inquire phone numbers of any CBS personnel,
you'll be transfered to the Communication's Department where they will find
the phone numbers for you.

   You can also ask to register your complaint, you will then be transfered
to recording machines to make a recording.

2) CBS Evening News:  (212) 975-3691

   Here at Evening News you can talk to a person who takes down the complaint
about the CBS report slandering Chinese.  You might be advised by the person
to write a letter, but since you already called, you should get her to write
down whatever you have to say and pass it to the guilty party.

3) Eric Ober's office:  (212) 975-6581

   Mr. Ober is the president of CBS Evening News, vice president of CBS
and he is responsible to authorize the news program (all news programs)
to air.

4) Connie Chung's office:  (212) 975-7192

   Ms. Connie Chung is not only the person who read the report.  She came
up with the original idea.  She and the Producer Tom Anderson went to China
to meet Premier Li Peng to produce this news piece.  Another Executive
Producer of this program is Eric Sorenson.

c. Boycott CBS and its patrons.
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3. A sample protest letter................................................51
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The following sample letter is from Xiangdong Shi:

Dear CBS President:

As Chinese Nationals having lived in the U.S. for many years, we were outraged 
by "Eye on America" program on the 19th of May, 1994. We are further
disappointed that CBS has so far ignored the reasonable demand from tens of
thousands of Chinese nationals in U.S. who have been falsely accused as
potential spies by the program for a public apology.

We think CBS and its news division have to realize that this particular program
is highly unprofessional and misleading. With phases like "planeloads of
Chinese citizens", "ordinary people", "in the house next door", the program 
which is allegedly based on "a special investigation" of CBS, included every
ordinary Chinese national in U.S. as a espionage suspect. It also hinted to the
American public that Chinese nationals are particularly dangerous when their
jobs are related to technology or informational superhighway. Yet instead of
showing the viewers how many Chinese nationals out of 100,000+ in U.S. have
been arrested for espionage to substantiate the accusation, the CBS news only
reported two instances, one of which is a restaurant owner who came to US from 
either Hong Kong or Taiwan more than twenty years ago and has nothing to do
with those "planeloads of people" and those who work with computers and
technologies. The other is a Chinese national who is allegedly afraid of being
contacted by Chinese intelligence soon. In other words, neither of the two
instances substantiated the general accusation on ordinary Chinese nationals
in U.S. made by CBS news.

The program also misled viewers by claiming that all Chinese students going to
U.S. would be questioned by Chinese Ministry of State Security on their 
potential work in U.S. This is simply a lie. Based on our personal experience
and experience of our friends and families in U.S., none of them have been
questioned by the Ministry.

All these unsubstantiated accusations and false information have misled the
uninformed American public into believing that ordinary Chinese in U.S. are
spy suspects and therefore put 100,000+ Chinese national's potential and
current job in jeopardy. Especially for those who have studied hard for years
in hope of getting into the technology industry, their life-long American
dreams are at stake. Only a full public apology from CBS can neutralize the
negative effect its "Eye on America" program has caused on Chinese nationals in
U.S. Anything less is unacceptable and will prompt us to take legal actions
against CBS.

Sincerely,

Signed

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4. Where to send your protest letters....................................   20
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Besides the address of CBS provided earlier, here are some addresses and phone
# provided by netters you may send protest letters or voice your protests to:

nightly@nbc.com !NBC Nightly News
bwreader@mgh.com !Business Week Magazine
71154.1006@compuserve.com !U.S. News & World Report Magazine

Asian American Journalists Association
1765 Sutter St., Rm. 1000, San Francisco, CA 94115  (415) 346-2051

Media Action Network of Asian Americans
(213) 486-4434

Consulate General of the People's Republic of China at Chicago
104 S. Michigan Avenue,Suit 1200,Chicago, IL 60603

More addresses, fax #s and phone #s will be posted in the future.

fcbs-l@ifcss.org and the CBS incident committee have disignated Y. Huang to
collect signatures for protest letters. E-mail huangy@sluvca.slu.edu if you
would like to co-sign any protest letters.
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		       Friday, June 3, 1994   (No. 2)

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1. Possible Legal Assistance on CBS Incident ............................  17
2. Some CBS phone numbers ...............................................  72
3. CBS Is In Bad Shape .................................................. 108
4. Advocacy contacts .................................................... 120
5. Internet Connections ................................................. 160
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1. Possible Legal Assistance on CBS Incident
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From: Qingsong  Zhang <qsz2u@faraday.clas.virginia.edu>

The following is a list of possible legal assistance on the
CBS incident. We need to contact these groups.

Zhang Qingsong
IFCSS Newsletter Editor-in-Chief

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***  WEST COAST  ***

Asian Pacific Legal Center
1010 Flower St.
LOS ANGELES, CA 90015
ph: (213) 748-2022

Asian Law Caucus
468 Bush St. 3rd Fl.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94118 (94108?)
ph: (415) 391-1655

Break the Silence Coalition Against Anti-Asian Violence
P.O.Box 2165
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126
ph: (415) 982-2959

Intergroup Clearinghouse
995 Market St. rm 1114
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103
ph: (415) 896-1355
service: assistance in reporting, information/referral

***  EAST COAST  ***

Asian Americans United
801 Arch Street
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19107
ph: (215) 925-1539

Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV)
191 East 3rd St.
NEW YORK, NY 10009
ph: (212) 473-6485

U.S. Department Civil Rights Division
call (202) 514-2000 to report incidents involving servious injuries or
property damage

U.S. Justice Department's Community Relations Service Federal Hate
Violence Hotline (800) 347-HATE
call to report incidents involving physical or verbal harassment

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2. Some CBS phone numbers
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From: XIAO@scri.fsu.edu

I have made phone calls to the following CBS offices.

1. CBS switchboard:  (212) 975-4321.

   At this phone number you can inquire phone numbers of any CBS personnel, 
you'll be transfered to the Communication's Department where they will find
the phone numbers for you.

   You can also ask to register your complaint, you will then be transfered
to recording machines to make a recording.

2. CBS Evening News:  (212) 975-3691

   Here at Evening News you can talk to a person who takes down the complaint
about the CBS report slandering Chinese.  You might be advised by the person
to write a letter, but since you already called, you should get her to write
down whatever you have to say and pass it to the guilty party.

3. Eric Ober's office:  (212) 975-6581

   Mr. Ober is the president of CBS Evening News, vice president of CBS
and he is responsible to authorize the news program (all news programs)
to air.

4. Connie Chung's office:  (212) 975-7192

   Ms. Connie Chung is not only the person who read the report.  She came
up with the original idea.  She and the Producer Tom Anderson went to China
to meet Premier Li Peng to produce this news piece.  Another Executive
Producer of this program is Eric Sorenson.

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3. CBS Is In Bad Shape.
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From: hua7291@med2s0.engr.ccny.cuny.edu (Mi Mi)

Time Mag.: CBS's stock went down 11%. Eight station were aquired by Fox
The eight are> Dallas, Detroit, Atlanta,Cleveland, Tampa,
               Phoenix,Milwaukee, and Austin TX.
CBS is in bad shape.

Mi Mi 

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4. Advocacy contacts
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From: <tfeng@ARL.MIL>

Two groups come to mind that might be of help
in your advocacy:

Asian American Journalists Association
1765 Sutter St.
Rm. 1000
San Francisco, CA
94115
(415) 346-2051

One of their concerns is how Asian Americans
are portrayed in the media. It is ironic that
Connie Chung is a recent member of the associa-
tion.

Another group that specifically deals with
media portrayals (both positive and negative)
is the 

Media Action Network of Asian Americans
(213) 486-4434

This group is based in L.A. and has been a
vigilant watchdog of cartoons, statements
by non-Asians in the entertainment industry,
movie images, radio comments, and advertisements.


Don't reinvent the wheel! Link up with these
groups and others to learn tactics and strategy
(and to gain support, of course).

THE_One and only!
tfeng@hel4.brl.mil

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5. Internet Connections 
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From: YANG Chang-Qing <cqyang@chemistry.umass.edu>

Here is what I have so far:

president@whitehouse.gov !President
vice.president@whitehouse.gov !Vice President
nightly@nbc.com !NBC Nightly News
bwreader@mgh.com !Business Week Magazine
71154.1006@compuserve.com !U.S. News & World Report Magazine

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Hi, everyone:

        Thank you very much for sticking to the following format! Please
remember that I am collecting the signature by myself. If you don't stick to
this format, it will cost me a lot of time to retrieve your signature. If you
cooperate, I can retrieve your signature very rapidly using powerful Computer 
MACRO language.

	We are working very hard to fight against a baised news report by CBS.
Please help us by giving us your endorsement of this justified fight against
discriminating news report about us, honest and obedient people from the
mainland of China.

	Please help ourselves by giving me your signature.

	Here is the signature format. Please STICK TO THIS format so that I
can fast and efficiently retrieve your precious signature.
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	Please don't write a long comment because I probably don't have time
to read the comment. The signature line for one person should be in one line
except being wrapped up. 

SIGNED	NAME 	UNIVERSITY/COMPANY 	E-MAIL-ADDRESS

	1. SIGNED must be put there and before others. Please Check spelling!!
Without this word correctly spelt, your signature may not be retrieved.
	2. The NAME format is Given + Surname. 
	3. UNIVERSITY/COMPANY should be concise such as St. Louis University,
	   or blank if you choose to.
	4. E-MAIL-ADDRESS should be complete. 
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SIGNED  Yinrong Huang	St. Louis University	huangy@sluvca.slu.edu
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        Best regards

	Yinrong Huang
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Work: (314) 658-3915                              Department of Biology
Fax:  (314) 658-3117                              St. Louis University
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Subject: CBS Incident Committee NR No. 4 (Part III & IV)
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		       Thursday, June 9, 1994   (No. 4)

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1. An update of the current status of the CBS incident.....................22
2. Forum:
   (1) Good book, bad report--a netter's comments on the book
       "Chinese Intelligence Operations" by Eftimiades and the CBS report.146
   (2) An article from CCF (No. 9431): 
       Please Calm Down! -- Thoughts on CBS Issue..........................69
   (3) letters from netter.................................................49
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1. An update of the current status of the CBS incident.....................22
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a) Earlier this week, the vice president of CBS Hard News and Special Events
sent a letter to IFCSS vice president Mr. Shi Heping, in response to his
inquiry of the CBS report. In the letter, the CBS VP said CBS stands by its
report. He also said that Chinese Ministry of State Security had recruited
hundreds of ordinary Chinese citizens [Editor: can hundreds out of 100,000+
be characterized by planeloads?] to steal U.S. secrets based on U.S. 
intelligence and CBS reported concrete examples of this having occurred.
[Editor: Is Mr. Kao a concrete example of planeloads of Chinese arriving in
U.S. recently?] He also cited that between 1986 and 1993, one in eight of
illega export enforcement cases closed by U.S. Commerce Dept. involved P.R.
China. [Editor: are these all spies cases and do they all involve Chinese
nationals?]

The editor's comments only replect the editor's personal view. The full text
and fcbs-committee's comments will be released soon.

b) There have been several lawyers who showed interests in this case. But no
concrete progresses have been made at this point. However, in case of a law
suit, those who have the TAPE of the CBS report are strongly encouraged to
contact the CBS incident committee. We need every bit of help from you!
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(1) Good book, bad report--a netter's comments on the book "Chinese
    Intelligence Operations" by Eftimiades and the CBS report...........146
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After reading the book  "Chinese Intelligence Operations" by Eftimiades
which the CBS report claimed to be based on, Mr. Xiao Dong wrote the following
impression of the book:

  "I liked the book.  It is professionally written, with
  balanced materials and facts.  It describes the Chinese intelligence
  operations in detail, and it is convincing.

    It is NOT the impression I had about the book after the
  CBS report.  The CBS report does NOT reflect objectively what the
  book presents.  The CBS report picked ONLY a small part of the book
  about Chinese intelligence recruitment,  misrepresented or maybe
  DISTORTED delibrately the facts quoted in the book, and added fabrications.

  1)The title of the book describes the subject well, it's 
  about the Chinese intelligence operations, in the world.  Many 
  examples are from Africa and Asia, where the Chinese communist
  party has/had "friendship aids".  

  2)It's about intelligence.  Spying is only part of intelligence 
  work.  Intelligence is information gathering.  As the author 
  indecated clearly: (page 114)  "gathering information on friends 
  and adversaries should not necessarily be viewed as an evil act.  
  Often, the lack of knownledge about another country's intentions 
  serves to destablize relations between states."

  He gave the example of Larry K.W. Tai, who deilivered 
  President Nixon's policy toward China to the Chinese intelligence
  agencies as early as 1970, which may very well serve as a door knock
  and prompted the Chinese government to define a policy that lead
  to the normalization of China and the US.

  3)It is about various intelligence operations. The book
  centered around the MSS (Ministry of State Security) activities,
  domestically and internationally.

  The "fish in the bottom of the ocean" statement in the CBS report is probably
  the most insulting statement to the Chinese public.  It is in the book (page
  61). However, the CBS did NOT present the story as the book did.

    It is in a chapter titled "Agent Recuitment Methods". In most of this
  chapter, the author described in detail how the MSS recruit FOREIGN (ie. 
  non-Chinese) nationals to work for them. The CBS conveniently IGNORED the
  non-Chinese agents (plenty of examples, most interesting one is what the
  movie Ms. Butterfly based on, the Frenchman felt in love with
  a Chinese opera singer, who turned out to be a bisexual, and
  the MSS get the Frenchman to work for them in return for 
  allowing their marriage, they went back to France and spied
  for China for years until they are caught by the French
  counter-intelligence).  No, the CBS ONLY tells the American 
  public that "ordinary CHINESE" can be "spies", but they
  did NOT (or dare NOT) say that the ordinary Americans are
  actively recruited, TOO.  And there are examples in the book!

  Also, CBS DISTORTED the recuitment procedure presented
  in the book.  Remember what the CBS report said: "It all starts here
  in Beijing. A Chinese student or scientist businessperson applies for a
  visa to go to the US.  Then the Ministry
  of State Security starts asking questions: ...".

  The sentence structured "A ..student OR ... OR ... applies",
  so it seems to be a STANDARD procedure of visa application that
  ANYONE will be asked "questions".

  In the book: (page 61)

  "The following narrative describes the recruitment and deployment of ONE
   such agant.
   
  A PRC national was recruited as a low-level agent by provincial MSS
  officials. The source had two academic degrees in the hard sciences.
  The recruitment process started approximately six months before the
  prospective agent was to travel to the United States ..."

  Clearly, the book was discussing a specific person, withholding
  his/her name.  But it was an INDIVIDUAL, not "a student" in general
  terms!  The rest of the procedure was simplified by the CBS, with
  sensational sentences that I'll single them out in next message.

  The CBS "special investigation" of course may not be based
  on this book alone.  But some of the CBS quotationa are just outright
  un-characteristic of Chinese officials.  Those quotations in the book 
  are, however, very convincing.

  "You belong to our organization".  Remember how sensational it is:

  Man:    Never forget, you belong to our organization.
  CHUNG: 'never forget,' they told him, 'you belong to our organization.'
  Man:    You were sent by our organization.
  CHUNG: 'You were sent by our organization, and this organization belongs
          to the Communist Party.'
  Man:   ...Communist Party.

  It sounded mafioso, doesn't it?!  These quotations are not in
  the book, and I dare to bet that they are made up!   The Chinese don't
  talk that way.  The Italian gansters do.  :-)

  What the book quoted is:
  "They also reminded him to 'remember your family, the Communist
  party, and our country", while overseas.

  Also, I didn't find the CBS alleged question "Will you be loyal
  to China?" in the book, which is supposedly from the book.  This 
  question is not way out of line as the "belong to our organization"
  sentence, but it also sounded like a stupid question.

  The book got favorable reviews from James R. Lilley, who wrote
  that "Mr. Efitimiades has written an important book on Chinese
  intelligence which is both well documented and well grounded in history.
  He describes clearly and factually the methods, objectives, organization,
  and history of Chinese intelligence backed up with case histories and
  documentation."

  I fully agree with Lilley's comments.  The CBS picked the bits
  in the book involves Chinese and distorted them to slander the Chinese. 

  The forward of the book was even writte by a Chinese scholar,
  Chong-Pin Lin of American Enterprise Institute.  It would be intersting
  to find his opinion about the CBS incident.

  There are plenty of examples of Chinese agents in the US and 
  elsewhere in the world.  Those instances in the US are all heard of
  by most Chinese here.  They are mostly embassy/consulate officials
  or NCNA jouralists.  There are suspecions of visiting scholars
  stealing secrets, the neutron bomb secrets from LBL is one example.
  There are no instances of ordinary Chinese coming to America by
  "planeloads" (this word is not in the book by the way) that are
  caught spying.  

  There are also Hongkong and Taiwan businessmen who are
  caught exporting restricted technology to China via a thrid country.
  These can be considered espionarg cases, however, the author also
  acknowleges that many of these businessmen don't even hide the
  final destination of the products.  They just frankly tell the
  American manufacturers that these purchases are going to China and
  the products are sold and delivered.  So these are not exactly
  spy cases, but normal however illegal business practices.

  Lastly, as mentioned in a previous mesasage, non-Chinese
  are also activelly pursued by the Chinese intelligence and plenty
  of examples of these agents are caught.  Only the Chinese are
  "future spies" is a distorsion of the oringal book!"
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(2) An article from CCF (No. 9431): Please Calm Down!--Thoughts on CBS Issue.69 
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Please calm down, man! Don't be so naive and stupid on the CBS Spy Issue!
Learn to use strategy. Don't just fight for something and turn out to lose
more. Simply fight for your idealism doesn't necessarily get you there
faster/better. We need to know what we are doing and what we want to gain.

What do you want to gain from the "fight"?

An apology from CBS stating that only a handful of Chinese "ordinary"
students and scholars are spies? Acknowledging that Chinese Minister of
Security only inquires very few students before they go abroad? Make some
loud noise on NBC and ABC that Chinese students and scholars think there are
only very few spies among them? Of course, nobody can make an absolute
statement saying that no Chinese spy has really "endangered" American
interests. What can you gain from such a fight? It just makes it even worse.

Don't you hate Chinese spies? Maybe you only hate those political spies who
monitor the overseas Chinese community for political activities. You might
not care about those spies working on economic/technological/militarial
information. But Americans care more about the latter.

The CBS report won't damage our job seeking in general, but it may affect
some cases with some employers' mindsets. However, an apology from CBS will
not improve anything on this aspect. Basically, the CBS report was blaming
CCP for using ordinary citizens to spy on the US, possiblly resulting in
some negative effects for ordinary Chinese citizens in US in terms of job
opportunities.

Let the media know that they cannot ignore the Chinese community and throw
dirty words on them? Let Americans know that Chinese in America have become
an organized/united group? Maybe this will be the only outcome of the fight.
Would this really be beneficial to us Chinese, or would it only scare
Americans more???

What? Lawsuit against CBS? Will that make everybody's job chance better?

Fighting for democracy won't make us immune to the spy-hunt. Self-
declaration of not being a spy is also meaningless. Some facts we can never
deny: we came from a communist country with tight government control and
had communist-educated childhood. Something always affects our thinking.
Even when we organize the "fight," the "6.4" movement, we can't get rid of
the communist "style" in many situations. Being angry at the CBS report,
somebody attacked CBS/Connie Chung personally. Just can't see a healthy
response, an effective way to handle it. In fact, letters to CBS showing
concern about possible negative effects on the innocent Chinese students
and urging them to carefully review such kinds of reports would be a
correct approach. Don't flood their FAX machines. Don't make an impression
that the Chinese groups are impolite, no manner, or out of control. Once
you throw dirty words (being angry) on them, you yourself look very dirty
too. Our image will be worse in Americans' eyes.

This issue needs a low-profile approach rather than a mass movement. The
latter won't work for you, no matter how eagerly you want to get there.

One more question: do you want to protect CCP spies, or do you want to get
them exposed?  Think about this:  what would this "fight" do for those real
spies?

Most western countries still treat PRC citizens as Communist country people,
therefore being very restrictive on granting them entries. The restrictions
in the US are among the loosest for PRC citizens in terms of entry visa.
Don't be spoiled, just think U.S. should view us as non-communist-root
people.

Being in America, we need to understand American interests as well as our
own. If in conflict, we must use skill, rather than just emotionally fight,
fight, and fight.

Don't make things worse, fighters!

<From: xxxx@super.highway.net>
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From HXYUE@WSUHUB.UC.TWSU.EDU Tue Jun  7 23:30:37 1994
Just some thoughts:

1. Because it is CBS who made the harmful news, so we should make CBS
   as a direct target, not anyone else.  If CBS thinks they were misleaded
   by other information sources, they could sue those sources.

2. It is the first case that caught so many CCS' attention and made the
   strongest reactions in recent years.  So it might be the last chance
   we could win.  Why?  Our strong reactions have sent a warning to the
   public.  Next time, if somebody wants to spit on us, they will make it
   more "elegant" and hard to be punched.  So we should try our best this
   time.

From RSW@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu Wed Jun  8 01:51:15 1994
1.  Try the best on the pending class action lawsuit.  This may be the 
ultimate avenue for redress.

2.  Mass letter campaigns are good for raising awareness and draw wide
CSS participation.  Count my signature on every letter. :-)

3.  Good writers, please try to get on some major newspapers.  Good
communicators, please try to get interviews on TV/radios.  We need a
task force on media ralations (publicity).  

4.  Is IFCSS providing financial support?  We may need to consider buying
some ads on newspapers (if we cannot get free reports, editorials, or
readers comments).

5.  Set up an fund to prepare for the worst.  Let's do it while the issue
is still hot.  If not used for this incident, we can save it for latter
use.  Anti-discrimination/defamation is a long term task and this CBS 
incident is just a spark for start.

From an unknown netter:

> Hi, guys, according to the Wang Gongli, who read this book, that the 
> "potential spy" are not limited to CSS, but all teh ethnical Chinese. 
> The unfortunately Kao, is not a CSS, as I pointed out. So, the insultation
> is much broader than the CBS report. 
> 
> Now, one important thing is, do not restrict this fight among ourselves.
> Go out and find all sorts of Chinese Organizations. Get their attention and 
> try to unite all of them. To them, to be called a "potential spy of CCP"
> is like us to be called with a "pig tail". You know what I mean. If many 
> organizations, and individuals are united to sue CBS, even if we can not
> win, it will cause CBS a lots of trouble. And many  Chinese Americans 
> have been established much better than us. Our only edge is the leading
> computer network, certainly is not enough to win the battle alone.

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(Daily News, one of the largest English paper in NYC, interviewed Mi Mi Sr.,
the coordinator of CBS Incident Committee on June 14 and  has covered CBS 
incident.)

The following is typed in By Mi Mi Sr. (Lin Huang)

Daily News, June 15, 1994 Page 3
Chung-lash For report about spies
By Ying Chan
Daily News Staff Writer

Some Chinese-Americans who were once loyal fans of Connie Chung are charging 
her with betrayal.
The flap began last month, when the CBS anchorwoman, in an evening news 
segment, reported on an alleged extensive network of Chinese spies in the 
United States.
"Everyday, planeloads of Chinese citizens arrive legally in the U.S., ordinary 
people," she said. "But  to the Chinese government, some of them maybe future 
spies..."
The report included an interview with Nicolas Eftimiades, the author of a book 
about the trend, who told Chung that Chinese spies are like "fish on the 
bottom of the ocean," who waited years to surface.
Since the May 19 broadcast, more than 600 Chinese students at universities 
around the country have signed protest letters to the network.
And at a press conference Saturday, a dozen Chinatown groups called for an 
apology.
Yesterday, Chung - sounding mellow but non apologetic - called the furor a 
misunderstanding.
"We were doing the story based on information from U.S. intelligent experts," 
said the anchorwoman.
"The dispute should be with the intelligent experts," she said of the reports 
by U.S. Counter-intelligence specialists.
But critics charged that Chung has simplified the issue in her broadcast and 
misled viewers.
"CBS suggested that every Chinese in this country could be spies for China," 
said Lin Huang of the Bronx, a City College graduate student spearheading the 
protest. "This is like crying the yellow peril again."

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2. Forum:
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   (2) Letters from netters............................................45
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a) Daily News, one of the largest English paper in NYC, has covered the
   CBS incident on June 15, 1994. The text of the news was carried on Mr.
   Miao Ye's Committee release special edition earlier. Daily News showed
   great interests in continueing to follow the development of the incident.

b) New York Times, one of the most influential newspaper in this country,
   also showed interests. Reliable sources say they will cover the story
   on Sunday under NYC section, but it can only be confirmed after the story 
   appears.

c) CBS incident Committee proposed a survey to assess the influence of the
   CBS report on American employers, ordinary Americans and Chinese. The
   effectiveness and potential result of such a survey is still under intense
   debate. Please see Forum for details.

d) Some concrete tasks are being undertaken, thanks to the efforts of many
   volunteers. These include: investigating details in the book "Chinese
   Intelligence Operation" and differentiating the fabrications of the CBS
   report; reaching out for helps from Chinese communities and American civil
   organiztions; preparing an official package ready for release to gain
   media attention and public help; coordinating nation-wide protests in
   front of CBS local stations. Please voice your opinions to help improve
   our work. 
   
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(1) To survey or not to survey--how to assess the damage done by CBS?...89
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Editor: In order to assess the damage done by the CBS report and better
        prepare for our long battle, the CBS Incident Committee propose to
        conduct a survey on American employers, ordinary Americans and
        Chinese. The survey may consists of questions like:
       
        If you are a Chinese, after watching the CBS report, do you think
	it is harmful to your immigration chances? Job hunting opportunities?
        Socialization?

        If you are an American, after watching the CBS report, what is
        your impression of Chinese?

        If you are a boss or personnel officer, after watching the CBS report,
        will you hire a Chinese if there are other qualified applicants
        available?

        If you are INS officer, will you more likely to assist a Chinese to
        immigrate?

        If you are a lawmaker, will you favor Chinese?
        
        If you are an American and/or non-mainland Chinese, how will you 
        look at Chinese?

Such a survey has drawn debates on whether it'll be effective and will not
lead to negative effects. But whether to survey or not, it is extremely
important and necessary to assess the damage done by CBS. The question
is how:

From: Liang Er

 it is still very important for us to define existing hurts and
 projected hurts on Chinese in the U.S. by this incident in respect to the
 lawsuit. [Lawyers I consulted] believe that  collections of personal cases of
 those who suffered and a survey reflecting change of public opinion toward
 Chinese are very necessary for the lawsuit both for the beginning and the
 court debate.

From: Phill Mahh

 Two questions concerning the survey:
 1. do you believe that the executives or employers are gonna tell
 the truth. In other words: do you believe that those people(they must be
 smart ,or they wouldn't be doing what they are doing) will tell you
 that they will discreminate Chinese people just because that stupid, every
 common-sensed-person-will-doult-about CBS show?
 2. Is there any bad effect, for example, maybe most of the employers have
 not payed any attention to the noise CBS has made. Isn't the survey actually 
 gonna make things worse by letting every body know CBS's point? Remember that
 if we worry about that a regular American may have bad impression on
 Chinese people, shouldn'e we worry about the same thing on executive 
 Americans?

From: Mi Mi

I believe, most of the Americans are straight forward, and will tell what 
they believe. This is a free country, never experienced the Cutural 
Revolution style of thinkology.

From: wen gong

I agree with the netter PHILL MAHH on conducting a widespread survey. 
1. do you believe that the executives or employers are gonna tell the truth.
   Why should they?
2. Is there any bad effect, for example, maybe most of the employers have
   not payed any attention to the noise CBS has made. 
   Isn't the survey actually gonna make
   things worse by letting every body know CBS's point? 
   Most probably!
3. how much weight will a survey or poll carry in the court???
   Not much!
4. What a legal case needs most is the evidence! If a Chinese was fired or
   discriminated or unemployed or hurt because of the CBS report, that is
   hard evidence. That will be a case for the legal suit.

From: WANG@PCIMSG.PCI.UPMC.EDU

I share the same concern about whether or not American being surveyed
will tell what they really think. But the more fundemental issue here
is whether we can make public believe the result of our survey.
Actually, what matters is not how the survey is made but who made it.
Say, a big survey company or magazine or newspaper everyone is
watching. So, I just want to make a suggestion that may be we can
consider to design a survey and ask some agencies to carry out. I am
not sure it is a good idea, but just like ask paper and TV carry our
story, if they feel such survey will have news value, they will do
it. That way, the survey itself will be a way to publisize out case.
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2) Letters from Netters..............................................87
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From: Ray Wang

Recently several netters expressed their concerns over our action against
CBS.  One of the main point seems to be that: Louder
we protest, more peopole will know it and will work to our disadvantage in
terms of employment and socialization.

To those worriers, I would like to assure them that CBS, not us,
in this case, is challenging the polictical correctness in this country--
that is--you simply can not incriminate an ethnic group based on
individual cases.  For instance, who dares to say that your certain
ethnic neighbor might be a potential murderer, simply because a handful
of that racial group have committed murders?  If our protest gets any
publicity, it will help to warn the potential discriminators that they
are being watched, to say the least.

From: Mi Mi Sr.

1) Fight back or not?
We are defamed by CBS report. Someone suggest that it has been too much 
already. Please keep quiet, lay low. Do not make noises. Pretend there has 
been nothing happened, and people will forget it after all. I call it Ostrich 
Philosophy. CBS is not the first nor the last. New York Times reporter told 
me, on April 11, Wall Street Journal covered the same thing (by the way, who 
can forward that to me?). Some other media had done the same before. If every 
time those garbage are dumped without protest, surely everyone will think this 
is a safe zone and we Chinese are the dumping site. In fact, by laying low we 
are inviting more and more garbage of this kind, in the future.

2) How to fight?
Well, good question. I have only one method, with my teeth, fists, feet, 
bricks, clubs, everything which is available to me as I am mad. No time to 
think about anything else. If only I am fighting, then maybe I make a mistake 
and fell. But there are so many fellow Chinese, some one may get through and 
win the battle. It does not matter if  I die. Someone is going to win, and 
that is enough. Of course to fight wisely is the best, and we are trying to do 
this way. Otherwise, why committee?

3) Make news or not?
Why not? Think that will make things worse? Quite rationale, eh? Well, how bad 
it will go? Call us not only potential but also real ones, right? The 
evidence! No one dares to go this far! So, what else? Tell you this, the other 
media is not a fool. When two parties are fighting, I bet they will support 
the weaker, not the stronger ones. The only way to support the stronger one is 
to dump some more trash on us, that act makes themselves look not so heroic. I 
bet they will side with us, to help the weaker ones, at least, to be more 
"objective". So, that is way to make ourselves heard. We do not have to buy an 
ad., media will offer us free of charge. If we believe what the CBS charges IS 
correct, then we may fear the more exposure. Fortunately we do not.

4) Law suit or not?
Well, I do not want to rule out this option, unless it is absolutely 
unnecessary. Law suit serves two purposes. The number one is to make a public 
statement, to get the public attention. No matter if we sue CBS to the end or 
not, we get the public attention already. The number two is to get 
compensation, if we win. Law suit here is the tool, not the goal. 

5) Survey or not?
Why not? My only concern is the manpower shortage of our committee. Our active 
members are all overloaded, and I do not dare to push them any more. So, if 
more volunteers can join, certainly it is a good idea to survey.

6) Survey whom?
Well, Chinese, Americans, your professors, classmates, office mates, bosses, 
neighbors or fellow churchgoers. Anyone. Show them the transcripts. Show them 
the survey questions and ask them the favor to finish it. We are not 
professionals, and we just can try our best. "War teaches people, people will 
win the war". A public opinion change resulted from the CBS report is our 
weapon to fight CBS. If there is no change, than just make noises to stun the 
media and then go back home to relax. Say good-bye to fcbs-l, Mi Mi Sr. and 
all our committee members. I would very much like this to happen. 

7) How about the side-effect?
What? anything we can do is worse than CBS report? CBS report is transmitted 
into millions of Americans homes without questioning. How many samples we are 
going to cover? Twenty thousands? Come on! How can we do that? Even if we can, 
20,000/1,000,000 = 0, mathematically. So, the bad publicity is negligible, if 
any, compared to the CBS report, right?

From: Jian Lu

To repeat my suggestion, in addition to asking people if their opinions have
changed after watching the CBS report, we should ask them how they interpret 
the CBS report, regardless of their opinions on Chinese nationals.  This is
the evidence we can use to challenge the "I didn't say that" argument.  It
would be most convincing if we could get a large number of responses from 
people who are not Chinese nationals.
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a) New York Times called Mr. Chengyan Liu and expressed interests into the
   CBS incident. However, they said they wouldn't carry a report unless a
   law suit was pending. (From Chengyan Liu)

b) Mr. Luo Ning and Mr. Frank Cheng, both members of fcbs committee,
   contacted heads of three Chinese organizations in New York
   City (Sino Radio Broadcasts Corp.; NY Chinatown Senior Citizen Coalition
   Center and United Chinese Congress).
   They were briefed on the CBS incident and the activities taken by our
   community, as well as correspondences between CBS and IFCSS. The heads of
   all three organizations expressed strong support to our efforts and suggested
   that we be cautious and well-prepared in this collective actions against
   the media giant CBS. (from Luo Ning)

c) Many Chinese community groups in San Francisco Bay area who expressed
   concern and anger over the CBS report have received responses from CBS
   within the last 10 days. However, they are all similar to the response
   IFCSS have received. These groups planned to do some of the following
   things: a press conference, a protest in front of CBS's local station,
   a law suit, an ad on newspapers to protest CBS. (From Liang Er)
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From: Hao Wu 
Subject: concerning "Youming"'s letter on June 9th

 Several coments:

 1. Don't try to cover the sheepishness by talking like a senior. "You guys
 are overract"? Oh no boy. Whenver whoever I talked to (of course Chinese),
 I found nobody that is calm and crying for 'fair play'. Maybe you were once
 surmoned by CCP, we were not, never, and I heard nobody around me ever.

 2. Someone may be so clever as to dig out the original intention of CBS, which
 was to blame CCP, not ordinary Chinese. But we, and I suppose most of the
 ordinary American, intepretated the report as the suspicion of Chinese,which
 I assume rooted from the overload immigration these years. Racial hatred is not
 uncommon thing here. And I can't imagine commercial TV stations would tell you
 some accurate political analysis. Plainly, as someone already pointed out,
 CBS used this report to boost its rating . The implication here (oh damn,
 always word twisters), and the effects in the masses (who were having dinner
 and swallowing whatever they heard); we shout at the effects, the vile
 intentions under the smiling face, not at those so called gentlemen and
 ladies who were critical and objective.

 3. I am not a PR, and submit no tax. So I have no right here. Once I told
 one of my friend who experienced discrimination from the cop in a traffic
 accident, that the only way is to follow Ah-Q, discriminating them back.
 No more junk words. The thing I want to say is that we benefit (I am not
 good at maths enough to calculate the value of work in lab I do), maybe
 we have no right. But if some one tries to destroy my reputation, tries
 to spit me at the face, definitely I would spit back. I just want to spit.
 No plan to leave his(her) spit on my face showing to others, begging for
 rights or compassion. I fear not if he(she) is my boss, lover, or even my
 parent. I want to bite, because some beast dirtied my face.

 4."Don't fight with your host nation's interest". Then how about our motherland
 China? How about your family? They cared us, milked us, we are totally indebted
 to them. We should not fight? We got too much. But as the same time we give
 back something. They have their own interest, their own policy, their own
 understanding. But sorry babe, I have my own too. If my boss is inhumane, I
 will join the uion, and find happiness in fighting him. Even I will find
 some joy in the falling  of a big building, no matter the owner and boss is
 staring at me with angry eyes. If this country is claimed to be democratic,
 I at least have the right to say what I want, though that is not protected.

 5.Whenver I talked to American about this, they can't believe CBS could do such
 a thing. They did not welcome my anger, but they did not disapprove either.

 6. Last point, we are not shouting beautiful slogans. If you are dissatisfied
 with the anger we have, if you think our anger dampened your fame of timidity
 and adaptivity, go back to your lounge and have a nice sleep. What image you
 want to have is of your own business.
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From: Runquing Du

 I do not want to attack a previous poster, but I certainly can not agree to his
 opinion, esp. his point of "the report was a fact". I do respect him for his
 courage of saying "I myself was summoned to Bureau of Security before I came
 to US". But to my knowledgement, most mainlanders coming to US were not
 contacted by BS. The sad part of the story is that I can not support my claim
 with concrete figures. But who can? ONLY BS can, and nobody will believe them.

 I personally think that CBS's report did discriminate the mainland Chinese in
 US and that we have all rights to protest CBS for its bad-talking us without 
 concrete reasons. What we need is stratogy.

 1. I think protest letter to CBS won't hurt CSS. The more the better. Let CBS
    know what they did was stupid (against law or not is another issue) and they
    will pay for their doing (by tell them you will not watch CBS programs until
    CBS make a public apology or whatever).

 2. We should consult with more professionals before we take public actions, be 
    mass protest or Law suit. We do not want make CBS' report more widely known
    without confidence that we can win or at least we will not worsen our image.

 3. We have to act quickly, because we are already late. I hope IFCSS can be
    more active in this issue. We can ask for donations from CSS if necessary.
*******************************************

 Recently, TV channel 38 in CA broadcasted two stories about
 discriminated chinese. Why chinese are discriminated so obviously even
 most of chinese are very gentle and careful especially in American? That
 is we did not defend our rights before. It is time now. We have to fight
 for ourselves, for our children and for our people. 

 If you do not want to take any risk, you can not have any chance.

Jackie Li 
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a. Media Compaign
From: qing lu 

 "What we want to wage next is a media campagn to attack CBS. What we need is
 publicity. I saw the report of the incident on Taiwan newspaper and heard it
 reported on world journal. What we want to do is to expose it to American
 media. Demonstratin in front of CBS is not bad. I hope it will generate at
 least some local TV coverage"

From: Muguang Wu 

 "Is it possible that we might take out an ad in a national newspaper such
 as Los Angeles Times or New York Times? In this ad, we may point out the
 discrepencies between the CBS report and Eftimiades' book account. After
 all, CBS's stuff was mainly based upon Eftimiades' book. I totally understand
 the financial difficulty of this kind of endeavor, but it seems we have support
 (at least morally) beyond the circle of CSS. It might be worth trying."

b. Helps from other organizations
From RSW@xxx

 "I proposed to contact ACLU [Editor: American Civil Legal Union], NAACP
 [Editor: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People], and
 other civil rights organizations. We cannot afford to fight the battle alone.
 The more we identify our campaign as a civil rights issue instead of a Chinese 
 issue, the more balance we can achieve.  Some worry we might be misinterpreted
 about our association with those sometimes controversial organizations. I
 disagree. While we need to keep our cool and composure, an isolationist
 attitude will do us no good.  The point is how we should utilize those
 resources to the best interest of our cause.  We at least can get their
 perspectives, if nothing else.  They are much more experienced in fighting
 social injustice. We should not be misled by fear or prejudice. Remember: we 
 ourselves ARE the victims of those social evils.  We are not talking 
 about joining these organizations here.  We simply want to utilize their tools.
 
c. Law suit
From: Jienan Chen

 "We have nothing to lose by filing a lawsuit with good preparation. I pointed
 out at the begining, a lawsuit serves several purposes: legal redress, pressure
 that may ultimately lead to an out of court settlement with CBS (minimum goal:
 a public or at least official apology -- then we can release it to the
 media), newsworthiness, and community awareness.  Publicity is not a 
 choice but a necessity.  CBS will not take us seriously, and we may not
 get a fair hearing, without generating/manipulating some publicity."  

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                       Tuesday, June 21, 1994  (No. 6) 

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1. New York Times dismissed the report due to the "lack of news value" ... 17
2. Focus on the Real Target .............................................  48
3. Connie Chung has gotten 1000+ protesting letters! .................... 116
4. CBS affiliate at Chicago got sued .................................... 129
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1. New York Times dismissed the report due to the "lack of news value" ... 17
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Hi, our dear netters, after leafing the Sunday's New York Times, I finally 
called the reporter to check if the article is/will be published. To my 
dismay, she said her chief editor only gave her two choices. Either, she said, 
we, CBS Incident Committee has lunched a law suit against CBS, or, she changed 
the tittle to one such as "All the Chinese-Americans turned against Connie 
Chung", things like that, a very sensational one. Otherwise, there is less 
news-value and certainly will be dismissed. It was obvious that CBS has 
followed the same doctrine. Unless they dramatize the event, or at least imply 
that all the ordinary Chinese could be a potential spy, they would not do it 
at all. So, Mr. Nicholas Eftimiades was not a victim at all as some netters 
tried to understand him. He was the beneficiary of that dramatizing, to be 
boasted the sell of his book. Also CIA could be benefited from this book 
because they do need an enemy to keep their own jobs. I just read an article 
on how those "star war" specialists are trying deadly hard to convince the 
Congress that the idea to blow up several asteroids is a good plan. So, we are 
the victims of this news-value judgment, and "keep the job" fighters. 

If we do not fight, CBS is not the last one. We are not fighting CBS. We are 
defending our own dignity. Our own reputation. If we do not care, who cares? 
If we do not fight, who fights? Let's sit down and do our preparation job for 
the legal action. In the CBS VP's letter, it is very clearly CBS has 
stonewalled already. If we can not convince the other media giants, we got to 
convince the judge, at least our lawyer. Otherwise, just swallow the CBS shit 
and try your best to enjoy it.


Mi Mi Sr.

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My fellow Chinese,

We are here together on a mission.  Your activism is an indication of
consciousness and awareness, and I'm proud of that fact.  However, we 
as a community are far from coming together with enduring unity, an 
identity we shall strive to cultivate.

As a highly educated and arguably the brightest group, we CSS must meet
the challenge and take the lead to upgrade ourselves from a "bunch of
sand" to an unit with discipline, cohesion and compassion.  As pointed
out by many, we are here to fight injustice being inflicted upon us by
CBS with its humiliating report.  We are NOT fighting any individual
or CBS itself.  This distinction must be made absolutely clear, or we
are fighting for dignity with no dignity!

Again, I urge refraining from targeting at individual(s) or attacking
each other.  We are better than that, are we not?  I repeat: what in
Connie Chung's heart or mind is irrelevant here.  The fact of the matter
is: Connie Chung did what she did ON BEHALF OF CBS; therefore, CBS and
CBS only is the guilty (liable) party!  This fact is plain and clear!

Please think: why CBS made Connie Chung do the dirty work and why Connie
Chung chose to do it?  Do we as a community have something to do with 
it?  Certainly.  Why Jewish people do not thrive on the pain of their 
fellow jews?  Because they treat each other with compassion and are ready 
to defend each other in the name of love and justice.  This why they
are proud of being jews!

If we were willing to vent our frustration by ruining Connie Chung, which 
seems to the liking of some media people for "newsworthiness" of a 
"Chinese-fighting-Chinese" phenom, we would be no better, but much worse, 
than Connie Chung.  If CBS committed tabloid journalism, we would be 
worse than CBS by digging into Connie Chung's personal life, because it
is gossip!  If Connie Chung betrayed Chinese, we would be worse than her
by ruining her career and/or reputation, because it is foolish!

I applaud the NYT reporter and our representative (Mi Mi) for resisting 
such temptation.  If we had done that, the result would be not to prevent,
but to encourage, Connie Chungs in the future, because we would have 
proven to the world once again that we are really a hopeless "bunch of 
sand!"  Do we have a right to ask Connie Chungs to be proud of being one
of us, a hopeless "bunch of sand," then?

In this world, strange things happen.  We do not need to claim a Chinese
victim for victimizing Chinese people.  We must search our souls harder 
and trace the problem to its deeper and wider historical, cultural and
social roots and put it in the right perspective.  We would regret later
for failing to do so now.  I will call quits if the campaign was degraded
into a misguided, yet familiar, "Chinese-fighting-Chinese" phenom.  What
else we can be good at?  Please, fellows, please fight with wisdom, class
and dignity!

My message to Connie Chung: Connie, I must tell you that what you did was
and still is wrong, not because you are a Chinese.  But because you are
a Chinese, we would not like to see you fall at the seems.  So, we will 
give you a chance to correct yourself.  At the same time, we will show 
you with our deeds that we are a proud bunch of Chinese and you should be
proud of being one of us, becuase we are no longer a hopeless "bunch of
sand!"  

Regards,

Jienan Chen

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Hi, everyone, a caller from Committee of One Hundred (a celebrity Chinese-American Organization including Connie Chung) told me that Connie Chung confessed
to her sister that she has gotten 1000+ protesting letters so far. I do not
mind if you guys start to send her more messages. We committee are drafting
an official one which will include all the 1000+ signatures you sent us 
through e-mail. If you are interested in sending more (the better) of your 
own versions, or co-sign someone else's version you like, our Campaign 
Coordinator Yinrong Huang will guide your bullets to the targets. 

Cheers,

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CBS affiliate WBBM FM radio station was sued by an anchorwoman of NBC affiliate
WMAQ TV for a comment one of WBBM's broadcaster made about her on air. The
case was settled today and WBBM issued an apology and paid an undisclosed
sum of money to the plantiff.

What can we learn?

 
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Subject: CBS Incident Committee News Release No. 7 (III & IV)
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		       Wednesday, June 21, 1994   (No. 7)

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2. Forum:
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a) New York Times failed to cover the CBS incident as promised. According to
   the reporter who wrote the story, the story was rejected unless its title
   was changed to something like "All the Chinese-Americans turned against
   Connie Chung", or a law suit was pending. Obviously, NYT only wanted some
   sensational stuff.

b) A reply letter to the CBS Vice President of Hard News and Special Event has
   been drafed by Mr. Huang Lin and Mr. Dong Xiao. With many helpful
   suggestions from netters, the fourth version has been distributed among
   netters. Upon the completion of the final version, it will be sent to CBS
   and major newspapers, TN networks and civil organizations with 1000+
   signatures of netters. Please help us by asking your friends, both Chinese
   and American, to send their signatures to huangy@sluvca.slu.edu in form of
   "SIGNED  Name   University   E-MAIL".

c) Whether and how to conduct a survey is still under debate. Please see Forum
   for details.

d) A boycott team has been formed within the CBS committee. It consists of
   Jay Qiu, Rui Sun, Tianyou Li and Liao Yuan Chen. Their job is to coordinate
   efforts to boycott CBS programs and send boycott letters to companies 
   advertising on CBS. The CBS Evening News rating is about 7 to 8 percent,
   lagging behind ABC (12%) and NBC (10%) [Editor: from J. Song]. If 200,000
   Chinese don't watch CBS Evening News, its rating will fall another 1%.

e) Asia Week is showing some interests in our story.
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2. Forum
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(1) Survey -- some further debates
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From: Jinping Shi
     
      The survey spreaded to ordinary American is less meaningful.
      Imagine when you get home and found our servey letter in the
      mailbox, if you cannot recall the CBS report in 15 seconds,
      you probably will through it to the trash can with other junk
      mails. WE will get even less responses if we put a line like
      `we are preparing a law suit against CBS for compensation'.

      The lawyer of CBS will prove to the jury the result of survey
      is meaningless by showing the response bias. Based on their
      logic, only the viewers with misunderstanding will response.
      And you cannot prove that is wrong if the response rate is low
      and same problem exists for telephone servey except it is
      more expensive.

From Mi Mi Sr.

Professional survey or not:
Of course the more professional the better. But we have to face the reality.
Our pockets are empty: We committee has no treasury department. Our most
precious asset is our devoted committee members who are working so hard,
and our supporting netters like you. We can only, and we must, COUNT you as
our most reliable resources. 

Better than nothing. CSPA fighters were not professionals either. They won.
Why not us?

From: crongxin@xxx

     I think there is a validity issue regarding professional survey. 
If the survey is not carefully designed and conducted, a survey expert 
can easily find bias of the survey. Thus, it will lose validity in court. 
CBS may try to find a survey expert to make such a claim. But because of the
limited resources, we may not be able to let professional take over all the
survey task. I have following suggestions to this dilemma:

     1. Let a professional survey firm join this survey, the survey can 
be jointly conducted by our team and the firm (at least in name), of 
course we do the most dirty work so as to save money. 

     2. We design a concrete survey strategy (from questionaire to 
surveyee), get endorsement/consultation from some survey professional. 

    3. If both of the above do not work, conduct our survey based  on 
books or other professional materials. They will provide some professional 
reference which makes our survey more convincing in court. 

From: Zhe Lin

  It would be better to ask "Do you think someone may be affected by the
  CBS news?" instead of "Do you changed your mind after watching the CBS news?"

From: Phill Mahh

	I suggest that for the best interest of the Chinese people and the
most reliable results of the survey, use anonymous, mail-replied survey 
format, with the first line stating:" If you have watched _________(?) 
CBS report on Chinese spies hosted by Connie Chung, please help up conducting
a survey by answering the following questions anonymously. If you didn't
watch the show, just disgard this mail:".

From: Frank Cheng

  Actually we don't need to survey the potential employers to access
  the consequent damage caused by the report (It is impossible). Think about
  our feelings -- they are hurt! If the black sue when they are called 
  "Negro", why shouldn't we sue when we are called "potential spies"? The hurt
  of thousands of chinese's feelings is public damage.  In one word, we can
  make it a case based on our own feelings. Then the survey will become easy.

From: Jinping Shi

   I talk by a book << Survey Research Methods>> written by floyd J. Fowler,
Jr. ., which is also the textbook of a survey methods courses in Dept. of
Epidemiology, Univ. of Maryland. While bearing in mind that the purpose
of a survey is to produce statistics, the three components of survey
are (1) sampling; (2) question design; (3) interviewing.

  Your example above violates (1) sampling rule: since the population 
sampling is unclear. In other words, you cannot ask "assume you are director
of high tech, .....", instead, you have to send the questionare to
a group of real directors of high tech. Otherwise it is invalid. The reason is
simple, you cannot choose 100 people and ask " if you are president
of USA, what will do with North Korea nuclear..." and use the survey
result to predict the opinion of Clinton.
(2) The answers to the question is difficult to quantitated, which is
not good to produce statistics. It seems to me like a GRE choice answers.
I would give answers like:
   Do you think the mesg carried by CBS is important to your company's
future hiring? 1 -- yes,  0 -- no.
  Do you think the CBS report's implication that chinese students and
scholars are all potential spys is very valuable info? 1--yes , 0--no
  Multiple answers could be like this:
  Please scale the extent of your agreement with CBS report,
 1--- strong disagree 2--- disagree 3--- fair
4--- agree  5 --- strongly agree

 But the key point is what I wrote in an early reply to a mesg
in the network. We need to send question to a group of directors in an area and
compare the response of those watching/have heard CBS report
vs. those without knowledge of this report, and to measure
the difference, which will provide an estimate of potential damage.
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a) Boycott

From: Tianyou Li

Here are two suggestions that can be added to the protest letter:

1. DIVIDE THE SIGNATURES BY STATE/CITY
   In this way, when the local stations and affiliates receive this letter, 
   they will feel the impact, both psychologically and financially.
   But send the whole list of signatures to each local station.

2. ADD THE FACT THAT AN EFFECTIVE BOYCOTT FOR CBS AND ITS LOCAL STATIONS
   THAT AN EFFECTIVE BOYCOTT OF CBS AND AFFILIATES IS IN PLACE.

From: J. Song

    There is possibly a good opportunity now for us to achieve a positive
result from a boycott campaign against CBS. CBS's evening news is now
"enjoying" the lowest rate of audience population (7 to 8 points) among 
the three giant broadcasting Co. CBS is also suffering the raid from Fox
recently for their affiliates.   These things may possibly provide us an
opportunity for playing a un-ignorable role to CBS.  If
we get 20.000 Chinese people (about 0.1 point) signed to join together to
boycott CBS, and we then convince Nelson rate company that this is a solid
figure,  the CBS's rate point of audience population might drop down further.

    To process this campaign, I suggest (1). FCBS committee selects at least
one volunteer from each of all the universities in America.  The more the
number of university is involved, the stronger the campaign will be. (2). FCBS
provides the volunteer copies of , both in English and Chinese,  an open
protest letter, a statement about this campaign, the original transcripts of
CBS report, and other related documents.  FCBS takes the responsibility for
all of them being truth.

From: Jay

	What about the idea of writing boycott letters to major companies 
advertising on CBS?  I remember several netters mentioned that idea.  If 
those companies feel that doing advertise on CBS might have less return than 
on other stations, they might consider advertisong less on CBS, and that 
will put pressure on CBS.

b) Chinese Community

From: John Liu

In our fight against CBS, we should voice not only for Chinese nationals
in the US but also for Chinese Americans. CBS said that the people who
were born in China would spy on US millitary and economic informations
after having stayed in US for ten years. This implies that Chinese
Americans who were born in China are all potential spies (possibly
including Connie Chung's parents or grandparents if they are still
alive), since the Chinese who have stayed in the States for over ten
years would most likely have become American citizens (I myself have
become a Canadian citizen). Therefore we should be careful in designing our
survey form and other documents and should mention both Chinese
Americans (who were born in China) and Chinese nationals who are legal
residents in US. Actually the CBS statement is against the US
constitution since the constitution does not allow any discrimination against
Americans citizens (including those who were born in China) based on race,
colour and place of birth. I am not sure if the constitution allows
discrimination against non-American citizens.

c) Positive images

From qinghui@xxx

I feel the best fight back is to make a video tape which focuses on the
contributions and life of the Chinese students in U.S.  We can send this video
tape to CBS, CNN, and TV stations.  Many Americans have little knowledge of
us, and they are willing to know more about us. If we do not take the
responsibility to build up our positive image, no one will.
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