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Subject: CND-Global, January 7, 1993
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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 07:42:28 GMT


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                                (News Global)

                          Thursday, January 7, 1993


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1. News Brief (4 Items) ................................................. 39
2. First Private Commercial Law Firm Opens in China ..................... 46
3. Chinese Fugitive Zheng Yi Arrives in U.S. ............................ 39
4. Clinton Inaugural Tunes .............................................. 40
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1. News Brief (4 Items) ................................................. 39
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[DPA, 1/6/1993] -- Chinese  authorities have  uncovered a major embezzlement
scandal in  the province of  Hainan in which a bank  employee  and three top
managers swindled 38 million yuan (about 6.7 million) from a number of banks
between January and August last year, the People's Daily reported Wednesday.
Two of the accused had  fled abroad but  have meanwhile  been  extradited to
China,  the newspaper said.  It said most  of the money  had been recovered.
Meanwhile the army  newspaper  Jiefang  Junbao called on the  authorities to
fight corruption which it said was deeply entrenched in the Communist party.
Reforms had  given the country  many new possibilities,  the newspaper said,
"but the rotting ideology of capitalism its values and life forms are enter-
ing every nook and cranny". (Forwarded by: Wenfeng)
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[AP-DJ, 1/6/1993] HONG KONG -- China won't accept any  legislation  enacting
moves toward greater democracy proposed by Gov.  Chris  Patten,  pro-Beijing
newspapers  reported Wednesday.  Zheng Guoxiong, vice director of the Xinhua
News Agency, China's de facto embassy, said Hong Kong  must  scrap  Patten's
proposals  before  Sino-British  talks can resume on issues con cerning Hong
Kong's transfer to China.  "China will not accept  any  proposals  that  the
British  government manipulated Legislative Council passes, Zheng was quoted
by the Wen Wei Po newspaper as saying.  The comments signal Beijing's disre-
gard  for the views of Hong Kong's 5.9 million residents as reflected in the
increasingly populist Legislative Council, whose  members  are  expected  to
vote on Patten's proposals in February. (Forwarded by: Liu Jian)
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[UPI, 1/6/1993] BEIJING -- Grain production rose slightly in China last year
but  delinquent  government  grain  payments have forced the central bank to
step in to soothe anger among the nation's peasants the official  press  re-
ported  Wednesday.  The  People's  Daily said the central bank, the People's
Bank of China, and the state Agricultural Bank had  convened  an  "emergency
meeting"  to  order the grain payments be made by Jan. 15, a week before the
Chinese lunar new year. Chinese peasants have been  angered  recently  after
being  paid in so-called "IOUs" for grain that local government agencies buy
for later resale to urban consumers.  The  practice  has  recurred  annually
despite  demands  from  Chinese  leaders  that it cease. Officials have ack-
nowledged that the late payments have dampened enthusiasm among farmers  for
growing  rice  and  other grains, still the staple food in China. (Forwarded
by: Chongyu Hua <hua@engin.umich.edu>)
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[AP-DJ, 1/6/1993] SEOUL -- South Korea's Construction  Minister  Suh  Young-
taek began a four-day visit to China Thursday to sign a memorandum of under-
standing with Beijing on construction cooperation, the construction ministry
said.  During his visit Suh will meet Chinese government officials including
Vice Premier Wu Xueqian and Construction  Minister Hou Jie to seek  ways  to
expand  cooperation  in the area of construction following the normalization
of diplomatic ties in August last year. The signing of the memorandum,  said
the  ministry,  will  allow the two countries to participate in construction
projects in the two countries or make joint efforts to  advance  into  other
third countries. (Forwarded by: Liu Jian)

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2. First Private Commercial Law Firm Opens in China ..................... 46
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Forwarded by: Liu Jian
Source: BUSINESS WIRE, 1/6/1993

SEATTLE -- Duan & Duan, the first independent commercial  law  firm  in  the
People's Republic of China, Wednesday announced its opening in Shanghai.

The firm has a liaison office in Seattle, where its managing partner, Qi Hua
"Charles"  Duan,  serves as a foreign law consultant for Williams, Kastner &
Gibbs, a Pacific Northwest law firm.

"This is an historic event for business and legal  reform  in  China,"  said
Duan.   "For the first time, clients can obtain representation in China that
is truly independent."

Duan & Duan is the only privately owned law firm in the PRC.  It is financed
by its partners and its profits will go to them.  The partners are permitted
to select their own staff and attorneys, pay salaries directly to  them  and
determine  salary  levels.  These arrangements are unique and were permitted
by special decree of China's Ministry of Justice and the Shanghai Bureau  of
Justice.

Generally law firms in China are closely tied to the  government,  and  this
has  often  been  of concern to foreign corporations which are accustomed to
independent representation.  Duan & Duan is also  different  from  the  many
foreign law firms with "representative offices" in China.

They are prohibited from practicing Chinese law and are  therefore  severely
limited  in  what  they can do for their clients.  Duan & Duan is staffed by
fully licensed members of the PRC bar.

The firm has three partners: Duan, 37; Qi Zhou  "Janet" Duan, 32, Mr. Duan's
wife;  and Yong Shui Chen, 53.  All are PRC natives,  and the  Duans as U.S.
"green card"  holders can travel freely between the PRC and other countries.
They currently employ five Chinese  lawyers and  expect to employ over 20 by
March.

Mr. Duan is the first person officially designated as a foreign law consul-
tant  by the Washington State Supreme Court.  He is thereby permitted to ad-
vise clients in the United States, which further extends the services Duan &
Duan  can  provide.   Since 1988 Duan has lived in the United States and has
worked for Williams, Kastner & Gibbs since 1990. Duan is also a director  of
Internet, a Seattle-based foreign trading consultancy.

Jerry Edmonds, managing partner of Williams, Kastner & Gibbs states that Mr.
Duan  will  divide  his time between Shanghai and Seattle and emphasizes the
bond between the firm and Duan & Duan:  "We have many clients that  want  to
do  business  in China,  who we  can refer to Duan &  Duan knowing they will
receive the legal and  practical services  they  require to  succeed  there.
That's  something that just wasn't available before the creation of this new
firm."

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3. Chinese Fugitive Zheng Yi Arrives in U.S. ............................ 39
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Forwarded by: A CND Reader
Source: UPI, 1/6/1993

NEW YORK -- A Chinese dissident hiding since the  Tiananmen  Square massacre
arrived Wednesday in the U.S.

Zheng Yi brought with him documents detailing cannibalism  in  China  during
the Cultural Revolution.

Zheng, 45, arrived in San Francisco from Hong  Kong  Wednesday  morning  and
took a connecting flight to New York, an airport spokesman said.

Zheng, a well-known writer in China, helped organize writers to support  the
student-led democracy movement in 1989.

After hundreds were killed when the government crushed the  movement,  Zheng
went into hiding. He became the object of a nationwide search.

His wife, writer and scholar Bei Ming, was arrested  and  imprisoned  for  8
months. She eventually found her  husband and, with the help of a modern day
underground railroad, they were kept hidden and smuggled out of China.

Zheng and Bei had been in Hong Kong for some time, said sources who declined
to be identified or elaborate about when the couple left China.

Zheng smuggled documents out of China that disclose cases of  cannibalism in
southern Guangxi  Province during the political fervor of the 1966-1976 Cul-
tural Revolution.

The documents were prepared by Chinese local government offices in the 1988s
the New York Times  reported Wednesday.  They report  such cases as students
killing principals and eating their bodies to celebrate a triumph over
"counterrevolutionaries, "and government-run cafeterias serving  human flesh
the newspaper said.

There was no evidence anyone in the national Communist Party  leadership was
aware of the cannibalism claims.

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4. Clinton Inaugural Tunes .............................................. 40
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Forwarded by: A CND Reader
Source: UPI, 1/6/1993

WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton's Presidential Gala will feature  a  star-studded
Hollywood  lineup,  officials announced Wednesday, but it's unlikely Clinton
will blow his own horn -- a saxophone --- at the Jan. 19 affair.

A spokeswoman for The Presidential Inaugural Committee said Clinton  is  not
on  the program, which includes Barbra Streisand, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac,
Aretha Franklin and a long list of other musicians and artists.

She noted, however, that since it's Clinton's show, he would be welcomed  to
come on stage

Clinton performed in a jazz trio, "Three Blind Mice," while in high  school,
and  played the saxophone last summer on The Arsenio Hall Show on late night
television. He also performed some on the campaign trial.

The inaugural committee said the Presidential Gala will be held at the Capi-
tal Center, just outside Washington, on the eve of Clinton being sworn in as
the 42nd president.

The two-hour show will be aired, via tape  delay, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. EST
on CBS.

An invitation only crowd of more than 20,000 will attend. Tickets  are  from
$100 to $1,000. Proceeds will be used to help pay for the four-day inaugural
festival, expected to cost about $20 million.

The evening will feature Streisand performing an extended set of songs,  and
the  reunion  of  Fleetwood  Mac, which has not played as a group since Sep-
tember 1980. Their song "Don't Stop (Thinking About Tomorrow),  "became  the
signature  song  of  the Clinton-Gore campaign after the Democratic National
Convention.

Gary Smith will be the executive producer of the gala  along  with  director
Dwight  Hemion.  Together, Smith and Hemion, winners of 22 Emmy Awards, pro-
duced the 1992 Democratic National Convention and such television  shows  as
"Baryshnikov on Broadway" and "Paul McCartney" in London.

Bill Cosby will introduce an all-star jazz band Thelonious Monk Jr.on drums,
Herbie Hancock on piano, Wynton Marsalis and Clark Terry on trumpet, Al Grey
on trombone and Ron  Carter on bass.  The sax section of Grover  Washington,
Illinois  Jacquet and Wayne Shorter completes this acclaimed ensemble.

"The evening will be a compelling celebration of jazz, rock and roll, blues,
classical,  popular  and  big  band  music," said Rahm Emanuel, co-executive
director of the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

"The Presidential Gala provides the best  of  all  worlds,"  said  Mary  Mel
French,  another  committee  director.  "We invite all Americans to share in
this celebration through the CBS broadcast."

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