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NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, March 14, 1994
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China spurns Christopher, detains dissidents, journalists
The Associated Press
BEIJING — Police detained another dissident and a foreign journalist yesterday while Secretary of State Warren Christopher held more unproductive talks with Chinese leaders on human rights.
For the third night in a row, dissident Yang Zhou was taken from his Shanghai home last night. It was not clear what new offense Yang allegedly committed. He had spent the day resting, trying to catch up on sleep lost during two previous nights' detentions, said his wife, Li Guoping.
"I didn't think they would come back for him a third time," she said.
Yang was detained Saturday after receiving a visit from another dissident. After his release yesterday morning, he said the detentions had been to prevent him from having contacts with other activists.
Earlier, Carrie Gracie, a reporter fo
British Broadcasting Corp., was questioned by police for four hours after she and several Chinese friends left a Chinese friend's home about 2 a.m. BBC bureau chief James Miles said the friends were ordinary Chinese, not dissidents.
She was the fourth foreign reporter to be detained since Christopher arrived Friday on a visit that has been marked by large-scale police detentions.
In the past two weeks, at least 17 dissidents in Beijing and Shanghai have been picked up in the police sweep. At least four have been in custody for days. Other dissidents left Beijing, apparently to escape harassment.
The three other reporters, a Dutch journalist and American correspondents for United Press International and Newsweek, were detained while visiting dissidents Saturday.
Activist Xin Hong was released yesterday afternoon after nearly 24 hours
in custody. She had written a letter to the legislature supporting direct elections and human rights and also met with foreign reporters in recent days.
Chinese authorities say dissident activities calling for human rights and democracy threaten national stability and must be stopped. The Communist Party newspaper, the People's Daily, ran a front-page editorial yesterday saying stability was the basis for economic and social development.
Xu Liangying, a noted scientist who issued a human rights appeal timed for Christopher's visit, said two policemen were stationed outside his apartment door and others in the compound to keep him from leaving.
Xu said his relatives had been told not to attempt to visit until Wednesday. Christopher leaves Monday.
The U.S. Embassy was again surrounded by more Chinese police than usual.
ANC soon may run troubled nation
By DONNA BRYSON
Associated Press Writer
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — The freedom fighters of the African National Congress saw the state as their enemy. Now the former guerrillas will have to run it.
The ANC is strongly favored to win the April 26-28 elections, the first in South Africa to include the Black majority.
Abroad, the ANC is hailed for its struggle to end apartheid. Nelson Mandela's quest for reconciliation with the people who imprisoned him for 27 years symbolizes the ANC at its noblest.
But at home, even admirers have a legitimate question: Is this organization born 82 years ago as a liberation movement ready to govern a country with 40 million people, 11 languages, a $40 billion economy and an untested constitution?
Critics say the ANC carries baggage from its long history as a guerrilla movement: a tendency toward unilateral decisions and quickness to condemn white governments while failing to see its own shortcomings.
Many South Africans worry that the
"They learned all the wrong things in exile — conspiracy, scheming," said Eugene Nyati, a political consultant. "I would have expected them to learn professionalism — the importance of returning a phone call. These things they've learned in the last three years, (but) there's still a long way to go."
In economic proposals, the ANC sticks to the mainstream and addresses only a portion of needs long neglected by white governments. An envisioned public works program would train and employ about 2.5 million people over the next decade, building roads and other facilities in an economy that now fails to employ nearly half the work force.
ANC will be overwhelmed because it does not have enough trained people. Political scientist Tom Lodge of Witswaterand University, for example, sees too few skilled administrators.
ANC members have been training abroad as civil servants since the 1970s. Neighboring countries have taken on ANC members as interns at senior levels in government departments, he said, but only 500 to 600 have completed such training.
As Nyati sees it, all South Africans have an important role to play as watchdogs.
"South Africans, Black and white, are given to worshiping leaders," he said. "We've got to develop a new ethos, to demand accountability in exchange for loyalty.
"I try to advise people: 'Never sell your loyalty, rent it out. That way you can take it back."
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