June 23, 1989
excerpts from the "Los Angeles Times"
front page:
Associated Press photo; caption:
"A passer-by reads an execution notice outside People's High Court in Beijing. The check indicates the person has been put to death."
"Execution Toll Up to 27 in China; 13 More Seized"
"7 Are Put to Death in Beijing as Action Against Protests Continues; Agitation for Taiwan Alleged"
By David Holley, Times Staff Writer
BEIJING - China's bloody suppression of pro-democracy agitation continued Thursday, with seven protesters executed in Beijing and the known toll by execution rising to 27.
Authorities also announced the arrests of 13 men accused of being special agitators working for the rival Nationalist government in Taiwan. The men were accused on state-run television of having promoted the recent wave of student-led demonstrations, which ended with heavy casualties early this month when the Chinese army shot its way into the center of the capital.
Word reached Beijing on Thursday [June 22, 1989] that besides three convicted rioters shot in Shanghai on Wednesday, 17 people also were executed that day in Jinan, capital of coastal Shandong province.
Those executed in Jinan had apparently participated in violent protests that occurred in response to the crackdown in Beijing. News of the executions was printed in a newspaper in Jinan. Beijing Radio had previously reported that the 17 were part of [a] group of 45 convicted for "seriously endangering public order."
"Prospect of Returning Home Frightens Chinese Students"
By Jonathan Peterson, Times Staff Writer
Raymond Chen had a goal when he moved to the United States from Shanghai three years ago: to return home someday with skills that would enhance his country's quest to become modern.
"Most of us [students] are trying to help China's economy," said Chen, 25, a graduate student in electrical engineering at UC Berkeley who allowed his name to be used because he said he believes it is already on a government blacklist. "I think most people planned to go back - or at least to help China if they went back or not."
Going home has become a frightening prospect, however, for many of the 40,000 Chinese studying in the United States since the political crackdown in their native country.
And that poses a dilemma for the Chinese economy: The permanent absence of these scholars would mean a sacrifice of skills in science, engineering, business and other fields where advanced knowledge is in short supply.
"The potential impact is very substantial," said D. Gale Johnson, a specialist in agricultural economics at the University of Chicago. "Once again, the Chinese will have wasted the best of a generation , as they did in the Cultural Revolution. These students are some of the best and the brightest, and I think the majority of them will be very reluctant to go back."
page ten:
"Witnesses Give Congress Graphic Accounts of Mangled Bodies in Beijing Massacre"
From Reuters
WASHINGTON - Several people who said they witnessed China's massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators gave Congress members graphic accounts Thursday, and one of them showed pictures of dead and mangled bodies.
page eleven:
"Tian An Men Memorial Sought"
From Times Wire Services
WASHINGTON - Legislation was introduced in the Senate on Thursday to name a small plot of land across from the Chinese Embassy here Tian An Men Square Memorial Park.
"It would express, silently and reverently, the sorrow Americans feel for those who were slaughtered in Beijing, those who are now facing brutal treatment in public trials and those who have or will become victim to vicious public humiliation and execution," said Sen. Malcolm Wallop (R-Wyo.), one of the bill's three principal sponsors.
"Every time Chinese diplomats look out of their windows, they will be looking on a place of free thought and speech," said Sen. Alan J. Dixon (D-Ill.) "Hopefully, over time, these principles will sink into the hard hearts of the present brutal regime."
Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) is the bill's third sponsor.
Tian An Men Square in Beijing was the scene of pro-democracy protests by students and workers and the site of their subsequent massacre by the Chinese military.
page twelve:
"Mitchell, Others Criticize Bush for Not Leading China Condemnations"
By Sara Fritz, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Me.) and others in Congress on Thursday strongly criticized President Bush for failing to forcefully condemn the execution of protesters in China.
Mitchell said he is upset by what he called Bush's "refusal" to express the revulsion the American people feel about recent events in China. He suggested that Bush is being a follower on the issue, allowing other world leaders to speak out.
"The United States, as the leader of the world's democracies, as the symbol of freedom throughout the world, should be leading, not following, in this instance," Mitchell said.
"I urge the President to assume the proper role as spokesman for the American people, as leader of the Free World, and condemn these actions in the strongest possible terms and to convey directly to the Chinese leadership the disastrous consequences of the course which they are now pursuing."
But the congressional criticism had no immediate impact on the President. In his first comment on the subject in two weeks, Bush told reporters: "China - we're all very concerned about that."
excerpts from the "Los Angeles Times"
front page:
Associated Press photo; caption:
"A passer-by reads an execution notice outside People's High Court in Beijing. The check indicates the person has been put to death."
"Execution Toll Up to 27 in China; 13 More Seized"
"7 Are Put to Death in Beijing as Action Against Protests Continues; Agitation for Taiwan Alleged"
By David Holley, Times Staff Writer
BEIJING - China's bloody suppression of pro-democracy agitation continued Thursday, with seven protesters executed in Beijing and the known toll by execution rising to 27.
Authorities also announced the arrests of 13 men accused of being special agitators working for the rival Nationalist government in Taiwan. The men were accused on state-run television of having promoted the recent wave of student-led demonstrations, which ended with heavy casualties early this month when the Chinese army shot its way into the center of the capital.
Word reached Beijing on Thursday [June 22, 1989] that besides three convicted rioters shot in Shanghai on Wednesday, 17 people also were executed that day in Jinan, capital of coastal Shandong province.
Those executed in Jinan had apparently participated in violent protests that occurred in response to the crackdown in Beijing. News of the executions was printed in a newspaper in Jinan. Beijing Radio had previously reported that the 17 were part of [a] group of 45 convicted for "seriously endangering public order."
"Prospect of Returning Home Frightens Chinese Students"
By Jonathan Peterson, Times Staff Writer
Raymond Chen had a goal when he moved to the United States from Shanghai three years ago: to return home someday with skills that would enhance his country's quest to become modern.
"Most of us [students] are trying to help China's economy," said Chen, 25, a graduate student in electrical engineering at UC Berkeley who allowed his name to be used because he said he believes it is already on a government blacklist. "I think most people planned to go back - or at least to help China if they went back or not."
Going home has become a frightening prospect, however, for many of the 40,000 Chinese studying in the United States since the political crackdown in their native country.
And that poses a dilemma for the Chinese economy: The permanent absence of these scholars would mean a sacrifice of skills in science, engineering, business and other fields where advanced knowledge is in short supply.
"The potential impact is very substantial," said D. Gale Johnson, a specialist in agricultural economics at the University of Chicago. "Once again, the Chinese will have wasted the best of a generation , as they did in the Cultural Revolution. These students are some of the best and the brightest, and I think the majority of them will be very reluctant to go back."
page ten:
"Witnesses Give Congress Graphic Accounts of Mangled Bodies in Beijing Massacre"
From Reuters
WASHINGTON - Several people who said they witnessed China's massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators gave Congress members graphic accounts Thursday, and one of them showed pictures of dead and mangled bodies.
page eleven:
"Tian An Men Memorial Sought"
From Times Wire Services
WASHINGTON - Legislation was introduced in the Senate on Thursday to name a small plot of land across from the Chinese Embassy here Tian An Men Square Memorial Park.
"It would express, silently and reverently, the sorrow Americans feel for those who were slaughtered in Beijing, those who are now facing brutal treatment in public trials and those who have or will become victim to vicious public humiliation and execution," said Sen. Malcolm Wallop (R-Wyo.), one of the bill's three principal sponsors.
"Every time Chinese diplomats look out of their windows, they will be looking on a place of free thought and speech," said Sen. Alan J. Dixon (D-Ill.) "Hopefully, over time, these principles will sink into the hard hearts of the present brutal regime."
Sen. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) is the bill's third sponsor.
Tian An Men Square in Beijing was the scene of pro-democracy protests by students and workers and the site of their subsequent massacre by the Chinese military.
page twelve:
"Mitchell, Others Criticize Bush for Not Leading China Condemnations"
By Sara Fritz, Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell (D-Me.) and others in Congress on Thursday strongly criticized President Bush for failing to forcefully condemn the execution of protesters in China.
Mitchell said he is upset by what he called Bush's "refusal" to express the revulsion the American people feel about recent events in China. He suggested that Bush is being a follower on the issue, allowing other world leaders to speak out.
"The United States, as the leader of the world's democracies, as the symbol of freedom throughout the world, should be leading, not following, in this instance," Mitchell said.
"I urge the President to assume the proper role as spokesman for the American people, as leader of the Free World, and condemn these actions in the strongest possible terms and to convey directly to the Chinese leadership the disastrous consequences of the course which they are now pursuing."
But the congressional criticism had no immediate impact on the President. In his first comment on the subject in two weeks, Bush told reporters: "China - we're all very concerned about that."
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