UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 22, 1995
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China says U.S.is causing tension
Communists angered by meeting with Tibet
The Associated Press
BEIJING — China criticized President Clinton yesterday for meeting with the Dalal Lama, cranking up Chinese-U.S. tensions just hours before officials from the two governments discussed a possible fall summit.
"The United States Again Creates Trouble," proclaimed the headline of a commentary in the People's Daily, the Communist Party newspaper. Senior party officials write the commentaries.
China last week lodged a protest with Scott Hallford, the charge d'affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, over the meeting. Yesterday's commentary demonstrated China was not letting the matter rest.
The slap at the United States came just before senior Chinese and U.S. officials were to meet yesterday in Washington to try to lay the groundwork for a summit between Clinton and President Jiang Zemin, who will be
in New York in October for the United Nations' 50th anniversary celebration.
Foreign Minister Qian Qichen and Secretary of State Warren Christopher are scheduled to meet next week in New York.
The People's Daily accused Clinton of creating a serious political incident by dropping into last week's meeting between the Dalai Lama and Vice President Al Gore. It was Clinton's third low-key meeting with the exiled Tibetan leader.
The paper claimed the meeting signaled support for Tibetan independence and reiterated China's position that Tibet was an inalienable part of its territory.
"The Tibet question is an extremely sensitive matter of sovereignty," the paper said. It repeated China's assertion that the Dalai Lama was trying to split Tibet from China and that he was not a pure religious personage.
The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists and head of a government-in-exile.
China claims Tibet has been part of its territory for centuries, but Tibetans have enjoyed de facto independence for much of that time.
The United States agrees that Tibet is part of China but has called on China to improve its human rights record in Tibet and give Tibetans more say in handling their own affairs.
China blames the downturn in China-U.S. relations on the United States' decision to allow Taiwan's President Lee Teng-hui to visit his alma mater, Cornell University, in June.
The article said the United States should be making amends for that visit instead of offending China further. This makes people doubt just how sincere the United States really is about improving relations, the commentary said.
At a routine media briefing, Foreign Ministry representative Chen repeated the government stance that it was up to the United States to put relations back on course.
"It is up to the one who tied the knot to untie it," he said, reciting a Chinese proverb.
U. S. officials say China need look no further than its own arms exports, human rights abuses, and trade policies to see what has caused the problems in the relationship.
Canada lifts tobacco advertising ban
High court says law in effect since 1988 is unconstitutional
The Associated Press
TORONTO — In a stunning victory for tobacco companies, the Supreme Court struck down the law at the heart of Canada's ant-smoking movement, ruling yesterday that a ban on tobacco advertising violated free expression.
product, the majority opinion said.
In a 5-4 ruling, the high court said the sweeping Tobacco Products Control Act of 1988, which banned almost all advertising of tobacco products, was unconstitutional.
Limited restrictions on tobacco ads are permissible, but a comprehensive ban improperly prohibits a manufacturer from communicating with customers about a legal
product, the majority opinion said. Although elated by the decision, tobacco industry officials decided on a measured response. They said they would voluntarily continue to honor the ban until consultations were completed with the government on which restrictions to maintain and which to lift.
"The one thing I know for certain: there will be advertising of some kind, by tobacco companies aimed at their customers — people who have already decided to smoke," said Robert Parker, a spokesman for the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers Council.
Canada's smoking industry agreed to withdraw tobacco ads from radio and television in the 1970s but challenged the 1988 ban that also barred print and billboard ads.
Two major companies, JRJ-Macdonald and Imperial Tobacco,
have been fighting since 1988 to overturn the law. They won a favorable Quebec Superior Court ruling in 1991, and then turned to the Supreme Court of Canada when a Quebec appeals court overturned the decision.
Anti-smoking activists were aghast at the death of a law viewed as a model for other nations and spoke bitterly of the tobacco companies' pugnacity.
"They are unmatched in terms of their resources and lack of ethics, in terms of any sense of responsibility for the hideous numbers of deaths they cause every day," said Andrew Pipe of Physicians for a Smoke Free Canada.
Some anti-smoking activists said they would lobby the federal government to declare tobacco a dangerous substance.
the schools?" asked David Sweanor, a lawyer for the Non-Smoker's Rights Association.
"Why are we treating this product so differently than any other hazardous product, any other drug?"
"Can we as a society go back to a time of tobacco billboards around
The court ruling said the government no longer could require manufacturers to print unattributed health warnings on cigarette packs. Parker, of the tobacco council, said the industry and the government would discuss the wording of new warnings.
"The right we've been fighting for is not the right to advertise with no restrictions whatever," Parker said. "It's the right to communicate with our customers."
According to government statistics, about 30 percent of Canadians over the age of 15 smoke. Parker said this rate had remained stable over the past 10 years despite new restrictions on smoking.
Haiti morgue holds 300 bodies too many
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hundreds of bodies packed into Portau-Prince's only morgue are threatening to rot while bureaucratic red tape prevents authorities from burying them.
The Associated Press
Television shocked viewers this week by broadcasting a glimpse of the macabre scene: bodies sprawled in disorder on the floor and others stuffed onto shelves, limbs hanging over the edges.
Especially shocking in Tuesday's broadcast was the number of infants.
More than 700 unclaimed bodies
— some former patients, some indigent
people found on the streets
— have plied up at the State Univer
sity Hospitall morgue, built to hold 400 corpses. It is the only public morgue in the metropolitan Portau-Prince area of more than 2 million people.
The morgue always has seemed crammed with bodies: makeshift wooden shelves inside its two refrigerated
rooms usually are stacked to the ceiling with the bodies of young victims of malnutrition and disease.
On Aug. 28, government officials at a memorial ceremony for coup victim the Rev. Jean-Marie Vincent were outraged to discover fly-covered corpses near the burial site.
It was sordid,but not secret.
ror that ended with the return to power of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in October, thugs and army henchmen often brought victims to the desolate mud-flats for execution.
And whenever the morgue was full, bodies were buried in shallow graves there, too. Little time passed before ravenous dogs ate the remains.
"Since then, it has been strictly forbidden to dispose of the bodies there," said Karl Denervil, the hospital's chief of preventive medicine.
However, the problem dramatically worsened last month when officials prohibited disposal of the corpses at Sources Puantes and Titanyen, the traditional pauper's burial fields by the sea 18 miles north of Port-au-Prince.
During three years of military ter-
However, officials horrified by the memorial ceremony scene responded quickly. The environment ministry prohibited further burials until an alternative plan was prepared.
Meanwhile, hospital authorities have been turning down requests
the crisis.
from poor people to keep bodies of their loved ones while they get money for a burial. Demervil is trying to raise funds to build a municipal morgue and crematarium to resolve
"It is the most hygienic solution." Denervil said. But a private cremation costs about $500, which is more than most Haitians can afford.
The hospital's requests for land to perform a mass burial are held up by bureaucratic measures at the Tax Collection Bureau, which oversees state lands.
The U.N. Military Mission has offered plastic bags and power shovels to build a mass grave for the corpses.
The overworked refrigerator motors for the morgue are on the point of breaking down.
"The bodies may start to rot," Denervil said. "There has been no prohibition order against dying."
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