From: gaojeng@durras.anu.edu.au (J. Gao)
Subject: China News Digest (U.S.), Tue, 9/29/1992
Summary: CND
Keywords: CND
Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
Date: 29 Sep 92 09:50:15 GMT

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                        Tuesday, September 29, 1992

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1. IFCSS HQ NR-4040:  S1216 - Report on National Coordination ............30
2. The Situation of The Chinese Student Protection Bill and
   The Action to Take Now - CCSA: Legislative Update on S1216 ............50
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1. IFCSS HQ NR-4040:  S1216 - Report on National Coordination ............30
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>From: IFCSS HQ <ifcss@wam.umd.edu> 
Source: China-Net, Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 

      As we have promised in our last news release, (NR-4039, Sunday, 
September 27), there will be a formal report coming out today. Here it is:

      1.  We are working with the IFCSS Washington lawyers who drafted the 
Student Protection Bill S.1216 and guided its passage in Congress. Now we 
must avoid a veto by President Bush, especially what is called a "pocket 
veto." That is when the Congress adjourns before the deadline for the 
President to sign the bill or veto it and return it to Congress for an
override vote. If the Congress has adjourned by this date, the President 
can simply not sign the bill, ("put it in his pocket") to kill it. Now we 
are coordinating the Chinese students efforts to prevent such veto, with 
the help of our legal advisers in Washington.

      2.  As of this morning, the bill has not been received by the White 
House. It is waiting to be enrolled in the Senate (to be signed by the four 
major sponsors). The HQ has contacted White House officials to urge 
President Bush to sign the bill. We have also contacted Chinese American 
leaders and organizations in D.C. to ask for their help.

      3.  The general CSS communities can help the campaign by sending faxes 
and petitions, by making telephone calls to the White House and by 
contacting local news papers.

      4.  The HQ has specific instructions and plans for some local groups. 
We will contact those groups directly, through email/phone/fax. Please stay 
alert and ready to take actions when you are contacted by the HQ.

         IFCSS Headquarters Office    Signature

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2. The Situation of The Chinese Student Protection Bill and
   The Action to Take Now - CCSA: Legislative Update on S1216 ............50
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>From: ZHAO@HUXTAL.bitnet (Haiching Zhao)
Source: China-Net, Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 

     There have been conflicting messages regarding S1216 on the net.  Many 
people called tonight about the rumor that the President has vetoed the bill.

     The real situation is as follows:

     (1) As of tonight, S1216 is still in the Senate.  It has not been 
enrolled and sent to the White House yet.  I have been urging several key 
congressional offices today to push it out to the President as quickly as 
possible.  It was said that the bill should be on the President's desk 
sometime tomorrow.

     (2) Meanwhile, the President has vetoed, tonight, the bill to condition 
China's Most Favored Nation trade status.  The bill was passed by the House 
last Monday.  A veto-override vote is anticipated in the Congress sometime 
later this week.

     For S1216, at this point, the Democrats are not much helpful in gaining 
President's signature.  We have been pushing several key Republican offices 
today to get some reading from the White House on our bill.  According to 
Senator Gorton, the key sponsor of S1216, a senior aide from the White House 
indicated today that the best way to get the President to sign the bill at 
this point is to keep a LOW PROFILE at the White House level.  He suggested 
that we restrain ourselves for a couple of days from sending tons of phone
calls or FAXs to the White House in fear that it may raise too much attention
and pressure and cause a Presidential veto.  In other word, let's first give 
him a chance to sign it quietly.

     We need to do the following:

     (1) Continue to call/write to Republican Senators. The message should 
be very simple:  i) Thank them for their support of our bill S1216, and ii) 
urge them to call their President to sign the bill.  At this election time, 
one Republican Senator's phone call to the President is probably worth more 
than thousands of our calls.

     (2) Ask our American friends, (people who have votes), to call/write 
Republican Senators with similar messages.

     (3) Ask American friends to write/call the White House, urging the 
President to sign the bill.

     (4) Go to local media, editorial board, explain to them about the 
situation and asking for their help.

     Please stay tuned for any further development and action plan.

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