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Prisoner's family stages sit-in
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BEJING — Police detained the wife of political prisoner Chen Ziming after she and other family members staged a sit-in at a Beijing park yesterday to demand that he be released to seek treatment for cancer.
Chen's sister, Chen Zihua, said that Chen's wife, Wang Zhihong, was taken from her apartment by uniformed police officers hours after the protest. A CNN cameraman and three Hong Kong reporters were detained for several hours and released.
The family had applied to the city government for permission to stage a protest march, but police told them their request had been denied and they would be arrested if they tried to march.
"We can't march, but we can come to this park, spread some newspapers on the ground and stage a sit-in," said Chen's mother, Wu Yongfen.
Plainclothes police officers filmed the proceedings and later stopped foreign reporters
from filming or interviewing the family, essentially ending the protest.
Chen Zihua said that phone lines to family members' apartments had been cut and that police monitoring their apartments had stepped up their vigilance.
The protest came two days before Chinese President Jiang Zemin is scheduled to meet with President Clinton. Jiang is in New York for activities marking the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.
Dissidents have been trying to increase pressure on the government in advance of the meeting. On Thursday, 12 dissidents sent an open letter to Jiang appealing for the release of all political prisoners, including Chen. A close associate of Chen, Wang Juntao, plans to stage a hunger strike outside the United Nations during Jiang's visit.
At the protest yesterday, Chen's mother read a statement and held a framed photograph of her son. She was accompanied by her husband, Chen Erzang, and their daughter, Chen Zihua. Wang Zhihong showed up
after police had scooted away the reporters.
Chen, 43, is serving a 13-year sentence for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement. He was released on medical parole last year and was found to be suffering from cancer. Four months ago, police arrested him again.
Wu said the family's appeals for proper medical treatment for her son had been ignored.
Last week, Chen began a hunger strike in prison to protest the lack of medical care, but the family has had no information on his condition.
"Thus, we feel compelled to take this supportive action today," she said. "Is there any parent in this world who does not love his own child, any wife who would not feel devastated?"
A few people in the park stopped to listen to Wu's statement, but the sit-in did not attract much attention. The international media coverage that usually accompanies such events, however, often draws the attention of the leadership.
State elections to test GOP strength
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WASHINGTON — A year after Republicans took control of Congress, a handful of state elections across the country will test whether the party continues its ascendancy or stalls out.
Three gubernatorial contests next month — in Kentucky, Mississippi and Louisiana — and state legislative races in Virginia are being watched closely for signals that voters are sold on the
regislative races in Virginia are being watched closely for signals on whether voters are sold on the Republican revolution or ready to put on the brakes.
Gains by Democrats or Republicans in state legislative contests in New Jersey, Maine, Mississippi and Louisiana also could show how far the GOP realignment is spreading.
National party leaders note these contests are mostly waged on local
issues and personalities. But the psychological stakes are high, with each side poised to portray victory as a mandate for its national policies.
"We're marching toward '96, and we're fighting these '95 battles with every degree of energy and enthusiasm we can," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler. He said the DNC would provide about $1 million to help state parties get out the vote and organize for candidates in key states.
The Republican National Committee intends to spend as much as ever helping state parties in each of the November election states, said RNC Chairman Haley Barbour.
In a copycult strategy patterned on last year's GOP congressional Contract With America, Virginia Repub-
"...we're fighting these '95 battles with every degree of energy and enthusiasm we
can."
Don Fowler Democratic National Committee Chairman
lican candidates are running on a "Pledge for Honest Change" platform.
And even the usually divergent Virginia Democrat have a unified campaign theme this year, focused on education.
Rich Bond, former national Republican chairman and now an adviser to presidential candidate Bob Dole, said the elections "may be poised to validate the way the country perceives how the Republicans are governing."
Besides pouring cash and expertise into the states, the parties are sending in heavy guns such as House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former President Bush and White House alice George Stephanopoulos to campaign for candidates.
National larges already is apparent in Virginia, where Republicans are trying to topple four decades of Democratic rule in the 140-seat legislature.
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Like characters in a "Miami Vice" script, Willy Falcon and Sal Magluta, both 40, lived in palatial homes, invested in choice South Florida real estate and, prosecutors say, laundered millions of dollars in drug money through dozens of offshore corporations and banks.
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