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                              (News Global)

                        Saturday, October 10, 1992

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1. News Brief (4 Items) .................................................37
2. Campus Clampdown Precedes Communist Party's National Congress ........69
3. CPC Set to Disband Central Advisory Commission .......................41
4. U.S. and China Reach Agreement in Principle on Market-Access Accord ..46
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1. News Brief (4 Items) .................................................37
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[CND, 10/09/92] U.S. President George Bush today signed the Chinese Student
Protection Act of 1992 into law.   For details, please read Oct. 9's CND-US
Extra and Oct. 9's CND-US Special Report.  (From: Bo Xiong)
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[UPI,  10/9/92] BEIJING -- Nine   elderly French tourists  and five Chinese
crew members were  killed in  the crash  of a chartered  airliner that went
down  in northwest China after  the pilot reported   engine  failure on the
Soviet-built   plane, authorities  said  Friday.    The  five other  French
citizens  and three Taiwanese tourists were  seriously  injured, and the 13
others  were hospitalized for  lesser injuries.   This  was the third fatal
crash in just  over  two months in  China involving   Soviet-made aircraft.
(From: A CND  Reader)   [Editor's note:  Oct. 9's CND-Global contains addi-
tional information about the crash.]
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[AP-DJ, 10/9/92] BEIJING  -- China's Communist Party  decided Friday not to
rehabilitate former party chief Zhao Ziyang, who  was purged for failing to
put down the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement.  The party's Central
Committee,  holding its  last  meeting  before  a  national  party congress
convenes   next   week to chose  a  new  Central   Committee, finished  the
investigation  on Zhao and decided to  uphold  its  1989 decision that Zhao
made serious mistakes,  the state-run Xinhua  News Agency reported.  (From:
Liu Jian)
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[AP,  10/8/92]  STOCKHOLM --  West Indian poet  Derek Walcott  won the $1.2
million 1992 Nobel Prize  in literature Thursday. Walcott, who  was born in
St. Lucia,  teaches  literature and creative  writing at Boston University.
In Walcott's latest poetic work,  "Omeros," a 64-chapter Caribbean epic, he
"weaves his many strands into a whole," the academy said.  "We  find Homer,
Poe, Mayakovsky and Melville" in the work. Walcott was born  of a Caribbean
woman and a Bohemian father and the  trauma  of that existence is reflected
in "Another Life," his autobiographical poem in which he  speaks of himself
"the divided child of the  wrong color."  He  has said he has three central
loyalties: "the  Caribbean where  he lives, the  English language,  and his
African origin," the academy said. (From: Huijie)

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2. Campus Clampdown Precedes Communist Party's National Congress ........69
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>From: A CND Reader
Source: UPI, 10/9/92

BEIJING -- While officials and the state media try to put a festive  air on
the Communist Party's national congress next week, authorities have clamped
down  on college campuses   and other sensitive   areas of China's capital,
Chinese sources say.

Police have taken extra  security   precautions to ensure  against  student
protests or  other disruptions, belying an  attempt by the press to present
the congress  as a Chinese version of  an election-year party convention in
the United States, the sources said.

Campus security agents recently posted a set of 20 regulations on all major
college campuses warning  students not to  paste up posters, a  traditional
form of protest, or organize any  form of meeting  without prior consent of
school authorities.

Roadblocks were  set up on  the outskirts of  Beijing this week  to prevent
non-residents from entering the city, and extensive  background checks have
been made on all taxi drivers and other workers responsible for catering to
congress participants.

For the  past week, all   official newspapers and television stations  have
been trotting out a litany of praise for the secretive congress, a weeklong
convention starting Monday.

"The congress will surely streamline the way for China's further reform and
opening under  the guidance of  (senior leader  Deng  Xiaoping's) theory on
building socialism with  Chinese characteristics," the official Xinhua news
agency said Friday.

But  the  congress, convened  only  once in  about   every five  years, has
heightened already intense security in Beijing.

During  the runup to the  party congress,  the  Ministry of State Security,
China's secret  police, has reinforced  its already  close surveillance  of
journalists and Chinese dissidents.

State security agents have questioned some dissidents in recent weeks about
their activities and their contacts with foreign reporters.

The "Rules for the Management   of Campus Order at  Higher   Institutions,"
promulgated  Sept. 18,  implicitly threatened students with  expulsion  for
violations of strict rules governing public speaking and assembly.

"Organizers of activities and those speaking in public  must apply 72 hours
in advance to school authorities," according to one of its provisions.

Campus authorities are  especially  sensitive to   literature of any  kind,
seeing it as a way of undermining their monopoly on the press and therefore
their authority.

Last month, after a small group of students attempted to  deliver a protest
letter demanding war   reparations    from Japan, an   issue   the  Chinese
government quietly  backs, authorities  reportedly  approached the students
and told them to keep quiet.

"The putting up of (unauthorized) posters will met with an investigation by
judicial authorities," declared another rule.

Other   provisions  specify the various   documents   Chinese   and foreign
journalists must  produce  in  order to  be  granted  an  interview  with a
student. The regulations  ask students to  alert  authorities to journalist
without such documents.

Chinese  authorities are extremely anxious  about  contact between students
and foreign  reporters,   placing much of  the  blame for  the 1989 student
demonstrations on the close relationship between them.

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3. CPC Set to Disband Central Advisory Commission .......................41
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>From: Liu Jian
Source: Japan Economic Newswire, 10/9/92

BEIJING -- The Chinese Communist Party is set to dissolve its conservative-
leaning Central Advisory Commission at the  upcoming party congress opening
Monday, Chinese sources said Friday.

All references to  the 200-member  commission  have been  deleted  from the
revised party  constitution which will be presented  to congress delegates,
the sources said.

Political analysts   say the move   will  boost  the reformist  platform of
China's paramount  leader Deng Xiaoping  because   most  of the  commission
members  are  aging  revolutionaries who  are critical  of Deng's  economic
reforms.

Although the advisory commission's specific powers are limited, its members
exercise enormous influence over key policy-making decisions, analysts say.

The commission  is currently headed by Chen  Yun, who is  considered Deng's
chief ideological opponent.

Chen opposes rapid moves toward a market-oriented economic system, favoring
instead the retention of a strong degree of state planning.

The new   party constitution also   will  warn  cadres to  strongly  resist
"leftist" deviation, another  of Deng's key  policies, the  Chinese sources
said.

Whereas the current constitution warns against extremism from both the left
and the right, the new version places special  emphasis on  the former, the
sources said.

The new   constitution also  curtails  the  power   of the  party's Central
Commission for Discipline Inspection, the sources said.

The commission currently has the power to investigate cases involving party
members who have broken important party or state laws, they said.

Its jurisdiction will no longer extend  to state laws  which will in future
be handled by the courts, they said.

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4. U.S. and China Reach Agreement in Principle on Market-Access Accord ..46
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>From: Liu Jian
Source: AP-DJ, 10/9/92

WASHINGTON --  U.S. and Chinese trade  negotiators reached an  agreement in
principle Friday over access  to  China's markets,  ostensibly  lifting the
threat of a record 3.9 billion dollars in U.S. retaliatory tariffs.

A spokesman for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) said the
agreement reached requires the approval of the Chinese government, which is
expected to make its decision by Saturday.

"We have no details at this time,"  the  USTR spokesman  said,  adding that
trade representative's office intends to release details after  it receives
its response from Beijing.

Chinese negotiators, lead by Vice Minister of Foreign Economic Affairs Tong
Zhiguan, required additional time to consult their  home government because
"It's now 5:30 in the morning" in Beijing, the USTR spokesman said.

The U.S. moved Aug. 21 to publish a list of Chinese imports that could face
retaliatory  tariffs if China failed to  remove  market access barriers  to
U.S. goods.

The measure was part of a trade investigation launched by  the USTR on Oct.
10, 1991,  on the basis  of widespread complaints  over  access to  China's
markets.  Under U.S. statutes, the USTR  was required to impose retailatory
tariffs if it couldn't resolve the dispute amicably within one year.

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills cited a host of problems with China's
market access, including the lack of transparency and range of requirements
on import licensing and outright bans and quotas.

Hills' office launched its investigation last year based on the notion that
China's trade barriers were inconsistent  with multilateral rules and trade
liberalization principles  adopted under  the  General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade (GATT).

China,  however, isn't  a   GATT member,   a  factor that  complicated  the
negotiations  with Beijing. However,  China has indicated  a desire to join
GATT,  which the  U.S.  emphasized  during  discussions it  would  block if
Beijing failed to liberalize trade first.

Meanwhile, Hills, along with other senior  USTR officials, are scheduled to
meet Sunday with the European Community Commission (EC) over issues related
to the negotiation of further trade liberalization rules within GATT and to
deal with an ongoing U.S.-EC dispute over oilseed subsidies.

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