Subject: FYI

From: [email-masked] (Mi Mi)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 93 14:29:21 CDT

Lads-net netters:

Following is the newsrelease from lc-l. Please pay attention to the item 1:
"A Brief Report About the Meeting With the IFCSS Officials", which, gives you
some clues of how our lads-related problem is treated. Item 2 gives you what
our counterpart net is doing or plan to do. While Item 3 is not much importance
to our netters, the item 4 does give us some useful information if some of
our lads are minor children.

For the sake of mis-understanding who is relaying this newsrelease, I put my
signature here. Last time some netters thought I was sending information to
them by mistake, and retaliated me with huge amount of junk mails, and me, 
Mi Mi, barely survived such a friendly attack! (just kidding! In order to 
handle the huge workload involved with lads-net, I shifted to this almost 
unlimited account).

Again, we need your understanding and cooperation.

Thank you for your attention!

Mi Mi

Lads-net Committee

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Subject: LCnet News-release 9/7/93
Status: R

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                              Table of Contents
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   1. A Brief Report About the Meeting With the IFCSS Officials
   2. Several Questions about LCs Working Committee
   3. Signatures Call for Supporting China's 2000 Olympic Games Bidding
   4. Books and Magzines Service: msg from Pacific Ranbow Company
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1. A Brief Report About the Meeting With the IFCSS Officials
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     LCs Working Committee member, Mr. Xiaodong Huang of North Carolina 
State University participated a meeting held on last Saturday at University 
of North Carolina with IFCSS officials. Apart from Mr. Lin Changsheng, 
current IFCSS President, and Mr. Heping Shi, current IFCSS Vice President, 
there were only about 8 people attended the meeting. All the attendants 
are ECs except Mr. Huang. The following is a brief report about the meeting.

    (1) Several of them are in our LCnet mailing list. They praised for 
          the works and were happy to see that Mr. Chengyan Liu joined the 
          IFCSS instead of spliting of the CSS community;
    (2) Mr. Shi mentioned to Mr. Huang that Mr. Chengyan Liu can get his 
          own people for his committee;
    (3) Illegal immigrants can apply for CSPA (everybody can, actually), 
          but the chance to be approved is not big. However, PRC citizen 
          who came to this country but fell out of status later is also 
          eligible for CSPA;
    (4) Ms. Rita A. Boie just came back from vocation and the comments 
          concerned with CSPA become a pile on her desk;
    (5) More than 40,000 students may get their GC soon;
    (6) IFCSS had stopped to lobby for LADs.
    (7) 9 of the 16 council members of IFCSS are LCs. They can do what-
          ever they want in favor of LCs. They make the real decisions, 
          and IFCSS HQ should implement them. So it is important to get 
          those council members if we want IFCSS to work for us;
    (8) They will analyze the results and impact of CSPA when some con-
          crete data are available.
    (9) According to the Mr. Lin and Mr. Shi, Dr. Zhao Haiqing is now 
          working for a law firm to lobby for the possible eligibility
          of illegal immigrants to adjust their status under CSPA.

     The meeting also talked about the business, human rights, scholar-
ships, phone cards, medical insurance, data base for finding jobs, and etc.

     Another point worth to be mentioned is that everybody was sad that 
there were just a few people showing up, compared with the time when CSPA 
was introduced. 

     LCs Working Committee

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2. Several Questions about LCs Working Committee
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[Editor's note: Recently, we get lots of e-mail questioning the operations
                of LCs Working Committee. It's an encouragement as well as
                a democratic requirment. It's our obligation to answer these
                questions. If you still didn't satisfy the answer, please
                send your request to [email-masked].]

Q. How is your organization being operated, e.g. financing, negotiating, 
   public relationship, etc.?

A. Basically, everything done so far by LCs Working Committee is based on
   committee member's willingness to voluntarily serve Late Arriving Fellow
   Chinese Students and Scholars. There's no budget since there's no way
   for financing our activities. At the worst time, some of the committee
   members financed by their credit card. Every week, the Chairman of the
   committee announce a brief plan for discussion, and after the committee
   members reach a consensus, they will do their best to let the plan work. 
   We committee hold a principal to make friends as many as possible instead 
   of enemy. However, we will stand up firmly to fight with the real enemy.

Q. Do you contact lawyers constantly? Any expenses?

A. Recently, we committee members consulted with some lawyers in order to  
   get best possible solution. Almost all of them are our friends, so there
   is little expense envolved. However, we expected some mild expenses or 
   even more than mild expenses would be included in our budget. 

Q. When do you want to start to lobby INS and congress? What's the goal? 

A. Now we are trying to establish a close connection with INS, Department 
   of Justice, White House and Senator Immigration Sub-Committee. That's
   not a easy job. Just think about how long the CSPA get passed. The 
   primary goal of lobbying at current time is to reduce the negative 
   impacts of Illegal Chinese immigrants and LADs on LCs. 

Q. What's the relationship between you and IFCSS HQ?

A. First, we are independent. That's the fundamental principal which guide 
   the committee's operation. We see IFCSS as a feasible channel to achieve 
   what we want to. Now, we are contacting IFCSS through Mr. Chengyan Liu, 
   the chairman of newly established committee for LCs under IFCSS. Although
   IFCSS hosted the LCnet, we, the LC Wroking Committee, have the whole
   control over the LCnet.  

Q. Do you have an outline of your work? 

A. Since the world always change, we cannot give you a specific plan. How-
   ever, we'll update our working report when it's available.

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3. Signatures Call for Supporting China's 2000 Olympic Games Bidding
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The following message is just for your information. -- LCnet Editors

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 93 10:04:48 MDT
>From: [email-masked] (Jianliang Li)
To: [email-masked]

        Now, you can FTP the lastest information and the signatures file.
Here is the procedure:

        FTP spike.rice.edu
        userID:         Anonymous
        password:       Anything you like
        directory:      China2000
        Files:          open.letter, signatures
        To copy:        get open.letter
                        get signatures

        Go ahead and give it a try!

                   *******************************
                   ***** CALL FOR SIGNATURES *****
                   *******************************

        We have drafted an ONE-SENTENCE open letter to support Beijing's bid
for the 2000 Olympics.  Please see the following for details.

        In order to triple double the number of signatures, here is
what we can do: (1) add the names of your family members if they also
support the idea; (2) collect signatures (names) from your friends who
don't have access to network computers and send all the signatures to
[email-masked]; and (3) DISTRIBUTE THE INFORMATION TO THE 
NETWORKS AND NEWSGROUPS IN YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR LOCAL AREA.

1.  The content of the OPEN LETTER has only ONE SINGLE SENTENCE:

        WE FIRMLY SUPPORT BEIJING'S BID FOR THE 2000 OLYMPICS!
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2.  If you, your family members and your friends agree and want to sign for 
    support, please send their:  (one line for each person please)

        LAST NAME,FIRST NAME    SCHOOL OR CITY      COUNTRY
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    TO:     
                         ************************ 
                         [email-masked]
                         ************************

3.  DEADLINE:  9/8/93 Wednesday 12:00 Noon EST (USA).  No signatures will
    be accepted after the deadline.  The international Olympic Committee
    will vote on 9/23/93 to decide which city will host the 2000 Olympics!

4.  For latest news, please also pay attention to the following newsgroups:
        soc.culture.china       rec.sport.olympics 
        soc.culture.taiwan      soc.culture.hongkong

5.  The signatures will be:

        handed over to IOC-HQ IN PERSON!
        handed over to Beijing Olympic Bid Committee IN PERSON!
        mailed to US Olympic Committee.

    Thanks for all the support! Together, we can make a difference!

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                BEIJING 2000 OLYMPICS UPDATE: 9/2/93
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        We have collected about 3000 signatures. Here is a picture of the 
first 2550 supporters: 

                   Country/Area         # of Signatures 
                (current residence)        (estimate)   Rank

                        Australia               126     4
                        Belgium                  30     10
                        Canada                  360     2
                        China                    24
                        Finland                  84     5 
                        France                   45     8
                        Germany                  49     6
                        Holland                  13
                        Hong Kong                 1 
                        Israel                   23 
                        Italy                    18 
                        Japan                    47     7
                        Malaysia                  1 
                        Netherlands              22 
                        Norway                   12 
                        Singapore                18 
                        Sweden                   27 
                        Switzerland              32     9
                        Taiwan                   17 
                        UK                      224     3       
                        USA                    1378     1       

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4. Books and Magzines Service: msg from Pacific Rainbow Company
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>From [email-masked] Fri Sep 3 16:29:54 1993
			
                           WE BRIDGE THE GAP!

	Are you tired of reading English text books or papers? Do you want
to get relaxation while reading a short essay in a Chinese magzine you are
familar with or a novel you love? Do you feel pitty not being able to find
any Chinese reading materials and text books for your children's
pre-school and elementary education?
	Now, "Pacific Rainbow Company" (PRC) can help you. The PRC
recently establish a brandnew service which we call:" We bridge the gap!"
The service distributes Chinese books and magzines published in China
directly to oversea Students/Scholars through mail order. The books and
magzines in our catalog are carefully seleted from the most recent and
popular publications in China, and ranged from literature, science,
sports, entertainment, history, health, social news to children's reading
and eduction. We also offer subscription of newspapaers in China.
	The prices, we think, are very reasonable (Around $ 2.00 a book,
$1.00 an issue of magzine, postage and tax have been included). If you
have any special orders, we'll also try our best to satisfy you. We hope
that this service can help the information flow from our motherland to us
and compensate the "homesick" among us, by using this culture rainbow to
bridge the gap.
	For free catalog and ordering information, please contact: (Don't
forget to incldue your regular mailing address, we'll mail it to you)

LUO, Jia
email:[email-masked]
Tel.319-353-4624
Pacific Rainbow Co.
513 Hawkeye Court
Iowa City, IA 52246 

or
Yu, Nai-xuan
email: [email-masked]
Tel:415-664-5269
450 Ortega st.
San Francisco, CA 94122
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