From: mcyang@pollux.usc.edu (Bien-Chao Iunn)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.taiwan
Subject: KMT campus spies in UCLA
Date: 5 Nov 1992 09:20:20 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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*******	UCLA Daily Bruin, Wednesday, May 15, 1991

Title :		Students Link Taiwan Arrest to Spies.
Subtitle :	Young Speaks to KMT Officials During Asia Trip.
Author :	Joshua Romonek, Daily Bruin Staff.

(Front Page with Three pictures :
    <Up top>	"I never thought that one day I would have to ask people
		 for help." Yunn-Wen Lien, wife of Chen.
    <Middle> 	members of Taiwanese Student Association, some with paper bags
		over their heads to conceal identity, demonstrate Thursday 
		against alleged spying on campus that may have aided in recent
		arrest of graduate students Jenran Chen.
    <Bottom>	Students hand Chancellor Young a petition urging support
		of Chen and condemnation of spying on campus. )

	Student spies at UCLA provided Taiwan's Kuomintang government that led
to the arrest of a UCLA graduate student, said fellow graduate student 
Chih-Chen Lo at a campus protest Tuesday.

	Lo and a crowd of almost 60 gathered outside Murphy Hall to present a
petition to Chancellor Charles Young, who has spoken to Taiwanese officials
about the arrest. Young pledged Tuesday to speak to them again.

	The purpose of the UCLA protest and the petition -- which was signed
by 300 people -- was to condemn the activities of student spies on campus 
and to show support of Jenran Chen, the UCLA student recently arrested for
sedition in Taiwan along with three others.

	The Kuomingtang government last week accused Chen of belonging to
a Taiwanese Independence group and charged him with sedition, a crime 
punishable by death in Taiwan.

	Kuomingtang official used Chen's study of Taiwanese history and his 
involvement in UCLA Taiwanese Student Association as evidence against him, 
said Lo, who is also a TSA member.

	Lo said someone on campus must be informing Taiwan's Bureau of 
Investigation. The agency responsible for Chen's arrest knew of the historical 
material he was studying, Lo said.

	However, he admitted that no solid evidence exists to incriminate
special individuals as spies. Still, many of Tuesday's protesters wore masks
to conceal their identities form the alleged spies.

	University officials said that they are unable to confirm the existence
of spies on campus.
	(continued at page 15).

	Young condemned the activities of spies, but he said that if spies
do exist, the university cannot stop students from providing foreign governments
with information on their students.

	"There is a great deal of concern in Taiwan for your husband," Young
said to Chen's wife, Yunn-Wen Lien, a UCLA graduate student in psychiatry.

	Young met with Lien and two other TSA members who presented him with
the petition that called on the chancellor to denounce Chen's arrest and 
support student freedoms.

	Young, who just returned from a week long business trip to Asia, said
he met Monday with Taiwanese officials before returning to the United States.
Young, who returned early Tuesday afternoon, said the official admitted Chen's
arrest was improper but that they would proceed with the case in a lawful 
manner.

	Young's meeting with the students ended with the chancellor's pledging
his continued involvement in the investigation. He also said he would speak
with Kuomintang representatives in United States within 24 hours.

	Demonstration in Taiwan condemning the four arrests prompted the deputy
minister of bureau of investigation to resign, Young said.

	But the Bureau rejected his resignation, said Lo, citing an article
in a local Taiwanese newspaper.

	UCLA's protest began in Meyerhoff Park where speakers explained the 
reasons for the protest and expressed concerns for Chen's safety.

	After hearing the speeches, the crowd marched throughout campus,
shouting support for Chen and for freedom.

	"Chen's innocent ! Taiwan ! Taiwan ! Set Chen Free ! Taiwan ! Taiwan !
Out With Spies ! Taiwan ! Taiwan !" the crowd shouted.

	"I never thought that one way I would have to ask people for help,"
said Lien, who almost broke down during her speech.

	"Taiwan is a notoriously oppressive government," a bystander said.
	"I don't really know what their message is," another bystander said of 
the protesters.	
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