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Thursday, February 18, 1993
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China frees three dissidents in time for Olympic visit
Release is considered gesture of goodwill to President Clinton
BELIING — China released the most prominent student leader of China's 1989 democracy movement and two other dissidents yesterday in what appeared to be a gesture to President Clinton and the Olympics movement.
The Associated Press
Wang Dan, who was No.1 on the wanted list issued by police after the crushing of the democracy movement, was freed along with another student leader, Guo Haifeng. Zhu Hongsheng, 76-year-old Catholic priest from Shanghai, also was released.
The early releases came just two weeks before a high-level delegation from the International Olympic Committee is scheduled to visit Beijing. Chinese leaders have made clear their strong desire to be host of the Summer Olympic Games in 2000.
The three paroles also might be intended as a goodwill gesture to the new Clinton administration, which has promised to focus on human rights in foreign policy.
The official Xinhua News Agency said Wang and Guo were released a few months early for good behavior. It said that with their release, all students "who violated the criminal law" during the democracy protests had been freed.
However, the government has not announced the release of many other students who are known to have been arrested after the democracy demonstrations in Beijing and other major cities.
figures.
Western human rights groups estimate more than 10,000 people were arrested after the 1989 protests and thousands are believed to be still jailed. China has never disclosed any
"I've no regrets." Wang told reporters at his family home just hours after being released from Beijing No. 2 Prison. "My personal ambition is to do all I can to promote democracy."
Wang, 23, was arrested in July 1989 and was due to be released this July. He said no conditions or restrictions were attached to his release.
Guo, 27, also was arrested in 1989 and would have finished his four-year term in June.
Xinhua said Zhu was released before his 15-year term expired but did not say how long he had been jailed or why. No information about the priest was immediately available.
"I really wish I could take a bath and rest," Wang said as more foreign reporters arrived at his home.
He looked healthy and spoke in a strong, clear voice. Wang was not reported to have been mistreated during his imprisonment, unlike others jailed for participating in the 1989 movement.
"This is a test for the government. How will the central government react to my meeting with so many reporters today? This will really show whether the government is changing or not," Wang said.
He said he hoped to continue his studies and planned to write a book about the 1989 protests. He was a sophomore in Beijing University's history department when the democracy movement began.
Robin Munro from the human rights group Asia Watch said the government was "making a few token releases."
"The students never really were the issue for the government. Workers and intellectuals got much heavier sentences, far more than the students," he said. "We want to see a major dent in those cases before we will think there's any kind of freeing up."
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U.N. halts aid operations, accuses factions of using relief supplies as political weapon
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Serb tanks bore down on a key western suburb yesterday as U.N. officials halted aid operations and accused Bosnia's warring factions of using food as a political weapon.
The Serb offensive on the last defensive lines was an apparent attempt to capture more of the capital before peace talks resume tomorrow in New York between Serbs, Croats and Muslims.
The Muslim-led government has blocked U.N. food aid from reaching Sarajevo, accusing the United Nations of ignoring besieged Muslims in eastern Bosnia. But convoys to the region have been halted by ethnic Serbs, who took up arms after Bosnia declared independence from Yugoslavia in February 1992.
The United Nations has condemned use of relief shipments for political means. It also is increasingly frustrated by attacks on
humanitarian personnel.
"I really regret that I have to take this decision because we have been trying to help the victims, the ordinary people, and we cannot do that," Sadako Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said in Nairobi, Kenya, in announcing the cut in aid to Sarajevo and eastern Bosnia.
The action could increase pressure on officials in Sarajevo, where many of the 380,000 people depend on aid to stay alive and home food stocks could be running low after six days of the government's aid boycott.
Test tube experiment reveals drug combination effective in keeping AIDS virus from reproducing
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A combination of three drugs has stopped the AIDS virus from reproducing in the test tube, researchers reported, raising hopes of someday keeping AIDS infections in humans at bay.
But scientists cautioned that it will take experiments in humans to see if the technique really works.
They used the standard drugs AZT and dideoxyinosine, also called ddI, and a third compound called pyridone.
The test tube work is presented in today's issue of the journal Nature by Martin Hirsch, Yung-Kang Chow and others at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
All three drugs attack a single enzyme, called reverse transcriptase, which the AIDS virus needs
to reproduce
The idea behind the "convergent combination therapy" was that the virus would be unable to resist such a triple attack, Chow said in a telephone interview. And if the enzyme can be prevented from working, it might also keep the virus from evolving into drug-resistant strains, he said.
In one of the new experiments, scientists infected blood cells with the AIDS virus, when waited one week until reproduction of the virus was at its peak. Then the three-drug combination was added.
Thirty-five days later, the infection was no longer detectable.
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