From: lix@BUCRSB.BU.EDU
Subject:      Forward for Eddie: An unofficial bi-weekly report (#10)
Reply-To: lix@BUCRSB.BU.EDU
Organization: Indiana University
Date:         Mon, 27 Jul 1992 00:50:34 -0400
Comments: To: china-nt@uga.cc.uga.edu, china-news-post@mentor.cc.purdue.edu

		What Is Going on in IFCSS Council
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	       An unofficial bi-weekly report (#10)
			     by
			 Eddie Cheng
		echeng@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu
			     for
		      July 1 -- July 26


*****  Editor's note:

	Long time no report!  :-)  As you can see this issue is not
exactly a biweekly.  For some technical reason I had been disconnected
from the new Council net for weeks.  It is not until the new Council
has passed a resolution that I realized my being "too dumb".  :-)  It
turns out that the new Council is already in the middle of an unannounced
email conference; an apperant violation of the IFCSS Charter, which
requires such meeting and its agenda being made public prior to its
happening.

	In any case, Council member Li Gang kindly supplied me with the
achives of the council net.  Digging into some 10,000 lines, this is
the best I can come out with.  So enjoy it anyway!  :-)
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7/1,  Li Gang (Southeast) sets up the Council network.  Debates on
the rules of the net.  While Chairman Li Jinghong (Midwest) and Li Gang
favors no real restriction to non-council-member posting, Xu Yi
(Northeast) and Tang Jianxin (Northeast) favor restrictions, fearing for
email flood.  A comprimise is later reached that public is "not
enouraged" to post on Council net.

7/1,  Council releases its first NR, which basically says nothing is
happening since HQ is in transition.

7/2-7/7,  Council members happily exchange "test" and "I hear you"
messages on their new net.

7/7,  Chairman Li Jinghong announces the establishment of Council net and
its rules to public.

7/8,  Xu Yi consults former Council Chairman Ge Xun on some
technicalities of the Council Bylaw.

7/9,  Chairman Li Jinghong dumps all News Releases from 3rd term Council
(7000+ lines) for his collegues to study.

7/10,  Chairman Li Jinghong calls for an email conference.  It is later
decided to be held during 7/21 - 7/27.  The agenda includes setting up
Council committees and other resolutions.

7/16,  Dong Liqun (Northwest) asks for address to send donation for IFCSS
immigration lobby.  Apperantly (according to Li Jinghong) there is no
account yet.

7/17,  HQ Staff Zhang Qingsong requests posting privileges to Council net
for HQ releases.  The matter will be discussed in the email conference
and Li Jinghong is forwarding all HQ stuff for the time being.

7/18,  Li Chenjian (Midwest) proposes that each Council member to receive
$20 each month for their phone bills (without having to show any evidence
on the charge).  Later after Li Jinghong's suggestion, "telephone bill"
is changed to "communication expense".

7/20,  Secretary Hwang Kai is sending every Council member two books of
"Robert's Rule of Order".  No information on who pays for the books.

7/21,  Council starts its first email conference, which shall last seven
days.  It does not bother to announce the conference and its agenda, as
required by the IFCSS Charter.

7/21,  First day of conference, Council discusses matters of setting up
a committee to modify IFCSS Bylaws, as authorized by 4da.

7/22,  Second day of conference, the conference is interrupted by a memo
from HQ on immigration lobby.  President Geng Xiao urges the Council to
immediately pass a resolution to authorize HQ taking charge of the lobby.
An emergency resolution is proposed by Li Jinghong and Hwang Kai.

7/23,  Third day of conference,  Hwang Kai forwards the announcement by
IFCSS "President" Zhao Haiqing.  Chairman Li Jinghong contacts HQ and
reports that HQ does not have information on ZHQ's lobby bank account.
Hwang Kai urges the Council to pass its resolution quickly.  The
resolution is then adopted without opposition.

7/23,  Secretary Hwang Kai releases the adopted resolution to China-net.
The conflict between this new resolution and a similar one pssed on 4da
later leads to the "two bank account" controversy.

7/24,  Fourth day of conference, back to business.  Chairman Li Jinghong
nominates personels to various Council Committees.

7/24,  Chairman Li Jinghong makes an open and formal appeal to SVC for
the apperant dual-presidency of IFCSS.  Tang Jianxin urges Council to get
involved in sorting out the conflicts of presidency and bank accounts.

7/24,  Mu Liyue (East) proposes to set up a "National Email Net" for
Council.  It is not clear what it means, especially compared to the
existent China-net.

7/25,  Fifth day of conference, the problem of Charter violation of the
email conference is finally brought to Council's attention.  However, no
member shows any concern to the problem.  In a private message to this
editor, Secretary Hwang Kai claims that Council members are "volunteers"
and too "busy" to show respect to the Charter.

7/25,  More confusion on the immigration lobby business,  Qi Yenong
(Northwest) reports that, according to Jin Yingquan (who seemingly works
for Zhao Haiqing's lobby team), the Council resolution passed two days ago
may have actually done a disservice to the effort and President Geng Xiao's
claim that IFCSS' tax status can be used in collecting lobby donation may
not be true.  More members receive same kind of phone calls from Jin.
Members fear for consequences such as jail terms (for misuse donation
money).

7/25,  Liu Yuhe (Mid-alantic) proposes an amendment to authorize Zhao
Haiqing and his lobby account based on his belief that Zhao is still IFCSS
President.  Hours later he reverses his position and withdraws the
proposal after talking to IFCSS Vice President.

7/25,  More members including Chairman Li Jinghong finds that they have no
way to get contact with "President" Zhao Haiqing and his lobby bank
account, although has existed and worked for years under the name of
IFCSS, has never been monitored by any IFCSS official.

7/26,  Sixth day of conference, members start to vote on various
resolutions.

7/26,  Secretary Hwang Kai complains to Council that its members are
being influenced too much by a couple of individuals in the lobby team
and HQ.  (Well, they are the only ones who know there is this email
conference going on after all.)

7/26,  At the press time, the voting and conference continues.

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	Thanks to the policy of IFCSS Council that allows individuals
to audit its email net and being concerned of the lack of communication
between our Council members and CSS population, I volunteer to make this
unofficial biweekly report on my audition of the Council email net.
	This report is unofficial and hence has nothing to do with
the Council or any of its members.  It will non-the-less reflect my own
judgement and/or `censorship'.  So it is not intended to be unbiased or
detailed information source.
	For a better source on your concerned issues, please contact
your own Council members.  Thank you!
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