June 14, 1989
Excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times"
"Signs of Fervor Nearly Erased From Beijing"
by Daniel Williams, Times Staff Writer
Beijing - Most signs that there once was boiling political fervor on the streets of Beijing have been all but erased. The city is like an air-brushed photograph in which key images have been eliminated. One begins to wonder if they ever existed.
No one appears to dare to put up posters denouncing the June 4 military assault on Tian An Men Square and its peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators. Once, hastily posted messages and photocopied photos competed for attention with the government's martial-law orders. Now the denunciations have disappeared. So have any pro-democracy posters.
"They're Watching Us"
Terror Felt in Homeland Spreads to U.S.
by John J. Goldman and Ashley Dunn, Times Staff Writers
Two days after the 18,000 demonstrators rallied outside the United Nations and the Chinese Consulate in New York in support of the pro-democracy movement in China, the consulate's education officer showed up at a dormitory at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He began questioning Chinese exchange students.
The diplomat wanted to know who might have participated in the demonstration. He also questioned Chinese graduate students in an apartment complex on campus. For many of the 400 Chinese nationals on temporary visas at the university, the reaction was fear and anxiety.
The Sunday night visit by the Chinese official demonstrated how the terror felt in China in the wake of the government's violent suppression of the student movement has begun spreading to the United States.
Chinese diplomats have videotaped demonstrators in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, protesters said.
Excerpt from the "Los Angeles Times"
"Signs of Fervor Nearly Erased From Beijing"
by Daniel Williams, Times Staff Writer
Beijing - Most signs that there once was boiling political fervor on the streets of Beijing have been all but erased. The city is like an air-brushed photograph in which key images have been eliminated. One begins to wonder if they ever existed.
No one appears to dare to put up posters denouncing the June 4 military assault on Tian An Men Square and its peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators. Once, hastily posted messages and photocopied photos competed for attention with the government's martial-law orders. Now the denunciations have disappeared. So have any pro-democracy posters.
"They're Watching Us"
Terror Felt in Homeland Spreads to U.S.
by John J. Goldman and Ashley Dunn, Times Staff Writers
Two days after the 18,000 demonstrators rallied outside the United Nations and the Chinese Consulate in New York in support of the pro-democracy movement in China, the consulate's education officer showed up at a dormitory at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He began questioning Chinese exchange students.
The diplomat wanted to know who might have participated in the demonstration. He also questioned Chinese graduate students in an apartment complex on campus. For many of the 400 Chinese nationals on temporary visas at the university, the reaction was fear and anxiety.
The Sunday night visit by the Chinese official demonstrated how the terror felt in China in the wake of the government's violent suppression of the student movement has begun spreading to the United States.
Chinese diplomats have videotaped demonstrators in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, protesters said.
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