June 19, 1989
excerpts from the "Los Angeles Times"
"China Imposes New Curbs on Travel Abroad"
By Daniel Williams, Times Staff Writer
BEIJING - China moved to restrict the exit of citizens who have already received permission to travel abroad, prompting a small run on foreign embassies today by Chinese seeking visas.
Lines began forming at the U.S. Embassy here late Sunday night [June 18, 1989] as word spread that the government had ordered Chinese who already have travel permits from their government to reapply for permission to leave. Many Chinese seemed to believe that obtaining a foreign visa might exempt them from the new rule.
According to state radio and television broadcasts, citizens who have received travel documents will have to go back to the office where they were issued. Diplomatic observers viewed the rule as a means of blocking the exit of student activists placed on government blacklists.
"In Beijing, Gorbachev Sees His Worst Fears"
"Soviet President Keeps Eye on Chinese Crisis, Knowing His Reforms May Spark Similar Unrest"
By Michael Parks, Times Staff Writer
MOSCOW - No one has watched the crisis in China with greater concern than Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, for in it he can see some of his compatriots' worst fears for what could go wrong here with his ambitious program of political, economic and social reforms.
Already there are warnings from the radicals to his left that ultra-conservatives in the Soviet Communist Party hierarchy, the military and the police would like a crackdown on the new political movements here and might even stage a provocation to justify harsh action.
"I am afraid that something like what is happening in China could happen in the Soviet Union," Andrei D. Sakharov, the nuclear physicist and longtime human rights activist said over the weekend while on a visit to the Netherlands.
excerpts from the "Los Angeles Times"
"China Imposes New Curbs on Travel Abroad"
By Daniel Williams, Times Staff Writer
BEIJING - China moved to restrict the exit of citizens who have already received permission to travel abroad, prompting a small run on foreign embassies today by Chinese seeking visas.
Lines began forming at the U.S. Embassy here late Sunday night [June 18, 1989] as word spread that the government had ordered Chinese who already have travel permits from their government to reapply for permission to leave. Many Chinese seemed to believe that obtaining a foreign visa might exempt them from the new rule.
According to state radio and television broadcasts, citizens who have received travel documents will have to go back to the office where they were issued. Diplomatic observers viewed the rule as a means of blocking the exit of student activists placed on government blacklists.
"In Beijing, Gorbachev Sees His Worst Fears"
"Soviet President Keeps Eye on Chinese Crisis, Knowing His Reforms May Spark Similar Unrest"
By Michael Parks, Times Staff Writer
MOSCOW - No one has watched the crisis in China with greater concern than Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, for in it he can see some of his compatriots' worst fears for what could go wrong here with his ambitious program of political, economic and social reforms.
Already there are warnings from the radicals to his left that ultra-conservatives in the Soviet Communist Party hierarchy, the military and the police would like a crackdown on the new political movements here and might even stage a provocation to justify harsh action.
"I am afraid that something like what is happening in China could happen in the Soviet Union," Andrei D. Sakharov, the nuclear physicist and longtime human rights activist said over the weekend while on a visit to the Netherlands.
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