Subject: CND-EP Weekly Posting, May 26, 1990

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Date: Sat, 26 May 90 14:33:50 -0500

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=====================  Europe / Pacific Section (CND-EP) =====================
                                  May 26, 1990
 
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1. World Calendar of Activities in Commemoration of the
   First Anniversary of the June 4th Beijing Massacre (Excerpt).........90
   (Including major European and Pacific countries/areas)

2. Australia: Chinese Students in Major Cities Preparing Activities
              for the 1st Anniversary of June 4th Beijing Massacre......40

3. The Voice of June 4th Radio Station: Time and Frequency Table........15
   (The station can be now received in mainland China, HK and Taiwan)

4. Report on Taiwan: Democratic Reforms In Taiwan......................100
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1. World Calendar of Activities in Commemoration of the
   First Anniversary of the June 4th Beijing Massacre (Excerpt)
====================================================================(90 lines)
>From: [email-masked]     Source: soc.culture.china    Date: 22 May 90 

	 World Calendar of Activities in Commemoration of the
		 Anniversary of the June 4th Massacre
		   (compiled by Hong Kong Alliance)

AUSTRALIA

April to June
	Publication of a series of Essays in Commemoration of
        June 4th in Sing Tao and Sun Pao

        Posters of June 4th Forum in China Town
        Audio-Visuals Shows every Sat. and Sun.
	Org: Chinese Students Solidarity Campaign for Democracy

Jun 3:	March
Jun 4:	 Memorial Service outside the Chinese Embassy
         Memorial Concert
    	org: Chinese Students Solidarity Campaign For Democracy
             Front For Democracy China (Sydney)

CANADA  (Omitted)

NORTH AMERICA (Omitted)

GERMANY

May 28 - Jun 4:
	"White Rose Concert Tour in four cities
         (A procession will be held before each concert)

Jun 3 - 4:
	June 4th Bicycle Processession
        Org: Front for Democratic China (West Germany)

ITALY

Jun 2 - 4:
	Exhibition of Photos: "Before and After June 4th"
        with video shows
        Send June 4th Postcards to China
        Seminar
        Sit-in (on June 4th)
        Org:Italian Ass. for the Studies in Chinese Affair
            Florence

SWEDEN:

May 28 - Jun 4: Chinese Week
     	Org: Front for Demcratic China (Sweden)

JAPAN

Jun 2 - 3:
	Memorial Service and Public Speaking Tour
        Org: Chinese Student Ass. for the Promotion
             of Demcracy in China and other Chinese
             Demcratic movement groups in Osaka

HONG KONG

May 26-28       Democratic Movement Exhibition in Victoria Park
May 27          Artistic performance in Victoria Park
June 3          Procession of "All Chinese Around the World" from Chater
                Garden to Victoria Park
June 4          Rally in Victoria Park in memory of the dead in June 4th
                massacre

MACAU

Jun 4:  Memorial Service and Photo exihibition

        Org:Uniao Le Deservolvimento Da Democracia
            Le Macau

U.S.A. (Omitted)

United Kingdom:

Jun 2:  China Spring- London
        China Day - Manchester

Jun 3:  March to the Embassy, London and Manchester
Jun 4:	Memorial Service and Assembly

        Org: Mobilization for June 4th
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2. Australia: Chinese Students in Major Cities Preparing Activities
              for the 1st Anniversary of June 4th Beijing Massacre
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>From: ****@***.anu.OZ.AU (CND Reporter in Australia) Date: Thu, 24 May 90
  
Yesterday (23rd May), the National Union of Chinese Students and Scholars 
in Australia (AO1 XUE2 LIAN2) held a meeting of all Chinese students in 
Canberra to discuss: 

1) The activities for the first aniversary of Bejing Massacre, June 4;
2) The immigration issues related to Chinese students in Australia.

The dicisions which they made are:

After 8:00pm on 3rd June, there will be some students who will be outside of 
old Chinese Embassy to spend the first half night in vigil for the death in 
Tianmen square at last year this time. The next half night, they will move
to outside new Chinese embassy to keep the vigil.  Before the sun rises,i.e.
between 6:30 and 6:40am, the memorial service will be held with funeral music
and candle light. This activity will be continued for about 20 minutes.
 
There are another activities will be organised outside Australian Parliment 
House:

1)   A drama will be played to reproduce the scene of the Massacre in 
     Tianmen Square. 
2)   Some people will give public speeches.
3)   Ask some Australian politicians who work for the government have a
     talk.

In Sydney, there will be 3,000 people to have a memorial meeting on 3rd 
Juan afternoon.

In Adelaide, the students will bulid a big monument for the death in Tianmen
square. The words on the monument is "Min2 zhu3 lie4 shi4 young3 chui2 bu4
xiu3" in Chinese. Also there is an English words on that in same meaning.

In Brisbane, there will be similar activity hold on June 3rd.

The activities are not clear in Melbourne and Perth at this moment.
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3. The Voice of June 4th Radio Station: Time and Frequency Table

** Editor's note: We have received several requests from CND readers for
                  the time and frequency table of the Voice of June 4th,
                  they want to send the table to their relatives back in
                  China.  Here is the table and you don't need to mention
                  the name of the radio station when you send it back, just
                  remind your friends/relatives of tuning to the right
                  frequencies at the right time.  The station was founded
                  by a few Chinese students in July 1989 and its headquarters
                  is located in Chicago, USA.
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>From: [email-masked] (Christine K Paustian)  
Source: soc.culture.china,rec.radio.shortwave

Programming information is available for transmissions by The Voice of June
Fourth, which is apparently on the air via the facilities of the Broadcasting
Corporation of China (Taiwan government).  Reportedly:

     Time (GMT)            Frequency (kHz) 
-------------------------------------------

    0250-0340               7240
    0615-0800               7150,7250,11905
    0915-0955               7150,11905
    1030-1200               7150,7250,11905
    1630-1830               7150,7250,11905
    2100-2200               15280
    2250-0020               7150,7250,11905

The program is a project of the Independent Federation of Chinese Students
and scholars in the USA.  All broadcasts are in Chinese.
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4. Report on Taiwan: Democratic Reforms In Taiwan
====================================================================(100 lines)
>From: [email-masked] Mon May 21 20:05:09 1990

Sender's Note: It is a good summary of the recent democratic reforms
               in Taiwan, including the event that triggered the
               student movement. As a reader from the Mainland, you may
               find the interesting parallels between CCP and KMT in
               their ruling.

Source: May 1st Toronto Star
        "TaiWan is taking a shot at democratic reforms" by Peter Goodspeed

Change. It's a word that dominates every discussion of politics in Taiwan 
these days.

After 41 years of authoritarian rule under rigid anachronistic policies 
imported from war-torn China in 1949, Taiwan is staggering towards becoming 
a functioning democracy.

"The era of the strongman is over in Taiwan," says political scientist Lu 
Yali. "There is a sense of rising expectations here.  Everyone knows the older
generation of leaders have just got to go. They are just too old to stay much 
longer. We have an entire new generation coming to power."

Since they seized control of Taiwan in 1949, the now aging leaders of the 
Kuomintang have ruled Taiwan with an iron hand.  But now  the hardline 
conservatives are dying at the rate of one senior legislator every 10 days. 
May more of the Kuomintang's geriatric members are simply unable to perform 
their duties.

When Taiwan's National Assembly met to rubber stamp the selection of Lee 
Teng-hui as president on March 21, dozens of the 751 assembly members had to 
be brought in wheelchairs for the vote.  During the assembly's debates, many 
dozed off in their seats while others were constantly being assisted by a 
squad of white uniformed nurses. One aged assemblyman didn't even know way he
was there. When he was handled a ballot during the presidential vote, he 
repeatedly asked: "Who is Lee Teng-Hui?"

As willing hostages to history, Taiwan's assemblymen belong to the most 
bizarre political institution in Asia. The vast majority of the assemblymen 
were last elected in 1947 and have not had to face voters in 43 years. Their 
assembly seats are frozen in time, enmeshed in the myth of One China and a 
dream that the Kuomintang will someday reconquer the Communist mainland.

Their sole task has been to meet once every six years to elect a new 
president. In the past, that chore was easy, because the Kuomintang leaned 
towards dynastic rule, keeping the autocratic Chiang Kai-shek in office until 
he died in 1975 and then replacing him with his eldest son.

But after the younger Chiang died in early 1988, he was automatically 
succeeded by his vice-president, Lee, a native Taiwanese. Lee served the two 
years remaining in Chiang's term and then stood for election himself.

Lee, an outsider who once was a vocal critic of the Kuomintang, lacks a power 
base within the ruling party, but is highly popular with the people of Taiwan,
scoring an 80 percent approval rating in public opinion polls. Lee is a 
reformer who has permitted the formation of opposition parties, ended press 
censorship and, last December, allowed the first free elections in Taiwan 
since 1949.  He is thus regarded with distrust by many of the old time
Kuomintang leaders.

This spring, they tried to block his bid for a full six-year presidential 
term by seeking to draft rival candidate, including Chiang Kai-Shek's only 
surviving son, Chiang Wego. That bid failed when the rival candidates withdrew
after bitter internal debates.

Not to be stymied, the geriatric assembly members then moved to strip Lee of 
some power by proposing a constitutional amendment, which only they could pass,
that would have broadened their own powers by allowing the National Assembly 
to meet once a year to introduce and veto legislation. The amendment would also
have quadrupled their pay.

The plan backfired by triggering the most raucous and violent pro-democracy 
demonstrations in Taiwan's history. Opposition assembly members declined to 
take their seats in the legislature by refusing to swear an oath of allegiance
to the "Republic of China", insisting they only recognized the "Republic of 
Taiwan".

University students also staged a mass sit-in in front of the Chiang Kai-shek
Memorial, demanding direct election of the president and dismissal of the 
National Assembly. Wearing headbands, publishing their own newspapers, 
establishing their own security patrols and staging hunger strikes, the 
students created Taiwan's own Tiananmen Square movement.

They formed a human wall around the legislative hall and tried to bar assembly
members from entering, shouting "if the old thieves do not resign, democracy 
will never come." The protests continued for two days after Lee's election, 
ending only when Lee agreed to meet student leaders and promised them rapid 
democratic reforms.

Having lost face with the public and the support or the man they reluctantly 
elected president, the National Assembly abandoned its constitutional 
amendment.

Lee followed through on his promise to the students by having the central 
committee of the Kuomintang agree to a compulsory retirement scheme for the 
old mainland legislators. Each will be given a $200,000 tax-free retirement 
pension and be forced to step down by the end of next year.

In future, all seats in the National Assembly will be elected from Taiwan, but
one third will theoretically still represent Chinese on the mainland. "We have
waited 40 years for change," says Tsai, a member of Taiwan's National Assembly
who was punched in the nose by a 79-year-old member of the ruling Kuomintang 
party after he poured a cup of water over the old man's head during a meeting.
"Now we are seeing it develop gradually. We can see a hope for democracy and 
we treasure that.  It has started to give some people hope."

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