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WORLD & NATION
Thursday, June 8,1989
State Department tells dependents
of diplomats in China to evacuate
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Depart
ment, calling the situation in China “volatile, un
certain and increasingly dangerous,” ordered the
evacuation on Wednesday of its 258 diplomatic
dependents. It urged all other private Americans
to leave as soon as possible.
“The situation is deteriorating,” State Depart
ment spokesman Margaret Tutwiler told report-
The evacuation was ordered after Chinese
troops raked a diplomatic compound with gun
fire and another incident in which Chinese sol
diers surrounded an apartment complex housing
U.S. diplomats and prevented them from leaving
the area for a time.
No Americans were injured, Tutwiler said.
She refused to describe the situation in the
country as “civil war.” But the spokesman, who
said a day earlier that she couldn’t verify that
fighting among the military had occurred, con
firmed that some clashes between small army
units had taken place.
The United States has chartered commercial
aircraft to fly to Beijing and Shanghai to supple
ment regular U.S. airline departures. Also, offi
cials have organized transportation to help U.S.
citizens get to the airports, the spokesman said.
She said the road to the Beijing airport re
mained open and that Chinese officials are allow
ing the extra charter flights to land.
Although the shooting at the diplomatic com
pound appeared to be warning shots fired into
the air, dozens of bullets struck windows facing
the street in the housing area for diplomats and
other foreign residents about 2.5 miles eas
Tiananmen Square.
The U.S. Embassy’s chief of security said
lets had pierced a window into a room when
two children were watching television.
An administration official, who spoke on
dition he not be named, said U.S. omcialsbeL'
84-year-old Deng Xioaping, who has been
ported in ill health “is still alive . . . and sir:
ning the show.”
The official said that there are “a fairnun!
of children" among the 258 dependents;
non-essential personnel who have beenorde
to leave and that officials are making sureei:
child is accompanied by either a parents:
friend on flights out of the country.
Chinese citizens stand against 4 invaders
Beijing residents resist occupation of their city by people’s am;
BEIJING (AP) — A young
woman wanted to tell the invading
soldiers they were unwelcome in her
city. Thinking they wouldn’t shoot a
woman, she walked fearlessly toward
their lines.
They fired. She fell. A bullet
wound turned her white shirt scar
let.
A stranger ran to her body. Bul
lets ricocheted by his feet as he
hauled her onto his back and carried
her toward safety. The woman,
bleeding heavily from a chest
wound, was loaded onto the plat
form of a bicycle pedicab and taken
to a hospital.
This incident Sunday on Tianan
men Square is one of thousands of
heroic acts that have marked the
public’s response to the five-day
martial law crackdown in Beijing.
From moments of great courage
to ones of quiet defiance, the people
of China’s capital have shown they
will not soon capitulate to the army’s
brutal occupation. Troops continue
to fire automatic weapons into un
armed but unyielding crowds.
“The people of Beijing will not
die,” a worker said as he stood
watching troops on Tiananmen
Square Wednesday. “The people will
be victorious.”
To stop soldiers from ripping
their way into the city’s center Satur
day night and Sunday morning, citi
zens lay down their lives in front of
trucks and tanks.
At one point, a young man in a
white shirt stopped a line of tanks as
they rolled out of Tiananmen
as well. Astonished onlookers first
cheered and then ran out onto the
street to rescue the man as the mili
tary convoy prepared to run him
down.
“Only the people can do things
like that,” said an elderly man, who
witnessed the incident. “It shows our
power.”
On street corners throughout the
city, groups huddled together retell
He was down and needed someone. There’s no
time to think now about why. These are fascist troops
invading my city. He’s a defender so he’s my
brother.”
— Beijing resident
Square onto Changan Jie, the city’s
main boulevard whose name means
the Avenue of Eternal Peace.
Placing his arm up and palm out
like a traffic policeman, the defiant
youth stood gallantly in front of the
tanks.
As the lead tank moved right, he
moved right. As it moved left, he did
episodes of singular bravery.
At the Muxudi intersection on
Saturday, machine-gun fire hit a
middle-aged man in the back, send
ing him sprawling. Bullets whipped
about his body. 1’ear gas cannisters
exploded overhead.
Zhao Min brought his bicycle-ped-
icab to the middle of the road,
picked up the wounded mam
brought him to safety.
“He was down and neededsoi
one,” the 19-year-old said aftei
returned from bringing the
nearby hospital. “There’s noti«
think now about why. These are
cist troops invading my city. He:
defender so he’s my brother.”
At the Beijing radio station
Sunday, an announcer broadca?
on the English-language servicer!
a report that troops had killedtli!
sanas of people, mostly innoceni
tims.
“Please remember June the!
1989, the most tragic event li
pened in the Chinese capital!
jing,” he said. “Thousands of j* .
pie, most of them innocentcivilk
were killed by fully-armed soldier:
The maverick announcer was
placed by a man who repeated
Communist Party’s approved«
sion of events.
Residents of the city soonleafi
of this last incident of objective
porting from foreign radio ref»
beamed to Beijing.
Speaker Foley says party overplayed power at time
WASHINGTON (AP) — New House Speaker
Tom Foley said Wednesday that Republicans are
right in complaining Democrats have at times
overplayed their power as the majority party,
and he vowed to wield a gentler gavel.
“I think we’ve pushed it sometimes to the point
where, while we were still within the rules, we
were making maximum use of the power of the
majority or the position of the majority,” Foley
said. “I don’t think we should do that.”
He specifically referred to an incident on Sept.
27, 1987, when then-Speaker Jim Wright held
open a House roll-call vote long enough to get
one Democrat to change his vote on a crucial
budget bill and provide the margin of victory. “I
think we went too far on that day,” he said.
Foley’s comment seemed to concede a point
made a day earlier, when he was sworn in before
the full House by Republican Leader Robert
Michel of Illinois. Michel said then, “Thirty-five
years of uninterrupted power can act like a cor
rosive acid upon the restraints of civility.”
In a wide-ranging interview, Foley also said:
• He hopes to enact, before the year is out,
legislation to reform House ethics rules and cam
paign laws. Such legislation would have to ad
dress the issues of honoraria, or speaking fees,
and a federal pay increase.
But Foley said he did not think Congress was
mired in “a moral swamp” because of recent
high-profile ethics cases involving his predeces
sor, Wright, and No. 3 Democratic leadership of
ficial Rep. Tony Coelho, both of whom have an
nounced they will leave Congress.
“I
I think we’ve pushed it sometimes
to the point where, while we were
still within the rules, we were making
maximum use of the power of the
majority or the position of the
majority.”
— Tom Foley,
House Speaker
• As speaker, he will be a staunch supporter
of civil rights and civil liberties, and will be de
voted to improving educational opportunities in
the United States.
• A combination of tax increases and spend
ing cuts will be needed to bring the nation’s defi
cit under control, but Democrats will not on their
own suggest a tax hike.
Earlier, Foley went to the White House for
second meeting with Bush in as many days,prt
ing the president’s willingness to consult. He.®
the luncheon was largely social.
Foley brushed aside Republican criticism,i||
eluding a Republican National Committeewt'.
that stirred considerable controversy.
Early Wednesday, the GOP committee
nounced the resignation of its communicaw-
director, Mark Goodin, who had written a mer
titled “Tom Foley: Out of the Liberal Closet'
compared Foley’s voting record to thatoffel
Barney Frank, an acknowledged homosexual j
Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said®
president had been “disgusted by this entire .j
dent.” RNC Chairman Lee Atwater telepto®
Foley to apologize.
“He repudiated the statement and af;
ogized,” Foley told reporters at the Capitol.‘1®
cepted that,” along with a promise that sue'
tacks would not recur.
“We should dispute about things of princilij;-
things of policy that we disagree about,” Fo®
said on NBC’s “Today” show. “But we ough
be able to do that without turning to personal;
tacks or recrimination.”
Foley was sworn in as the House’s 49thspea®
on Tuesday to replace Wright.
Mattox: Mexican border police need technology
PHARR (AP) — Texas Attorney
General Jim Mattox said Wednesday
the state should provide computers
and radios for Mexican police along
the border as a means of improving
international law enforcement links.
Officials from Texas and the four
Mexican border states across the Rio
Grande met here Wednesday in pre
paration for a series of joint training
sessions for law enforcement per
sonnel. The planned training ses
sions are an outgrowth of semi-an
nual meetings between attorneys
general from all of the U.S.-Mexican
border states.
Daily electronic communications
links should be established, Mattox
said.
“They (Mexican officials) want us
to help them get radios and comput
ers and we could do it,” Mattox said.
Suitable equipment regularly is
sold “for nothing” at state surplus
auctions, he said, and the police ra
dios and computers could be funded
by the state Criminal Justice Council.
Nearly 100 law enforcement offi
cials from Texas and Mexico at
tended Wednesday’s “Border Crime
Conference.” They included Texas
border officials from areas from El
Paso to Brownsville and their Mexi
can counterparts from Chihuahua,
Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamauli-
pas states. They focused on the
problems of auto theft, drug traf
ficking, missing persons and gun
smuggling.
Simply meeting face-to-face will
improve relationships, Mattox said.
The conference has been in the
planning stages for months, but the
discovery in April of a murderous
drug-running cult near Matamoros,
Mexico, added urgency to the need
for cross-border cooperation and
communication, officials said.
Among the cult’s victims was 21-
year-old University of Texas student
Mark Kilroy, who disappeared dur
ing spring break in the border city
nearly a month before his mutilated
corpse was found buried at a ranch
west of Matamoros.
Mexican and U.S. officials wel
comed the plan to strengthen their
ties.
“This is the best thing that could
happen,” said Patrick D. Dalager,
police chief in San Benito, 20 miles
north of the border city of
Brownsville. “It should have been
done 50 years ago.”
He emphasized that Mexico is in
the midst of a “radical effort to com
bat drug trafficking.”
Tamaulipas state’s Assistant At
torney General Ives Soberon Tije
rina added that being neig^’
brings benefits as well as problem 5
“We have cultural and ecor.'-:
exchanges, but delinquency aim
perfected on the border,” Tij cr L
said.
Plans call for at least three! 1 I
training sessions by the end of 1-
A one-day session on drug-ruH'
cults will take place June 27 in'’
laco.
The officials also discussed!"'®
ing in July to consider waysto 1 ,
bat automobile theft. The Lo«e! : m
Grande Valley cities of Browns’®
and McAllen have the worst p" 5
pita auto theft rates in the state
Surinamese jetliner crashes; 169 reported dead
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — A Surinamese
jetliner trying to land in dense fog clipped treetops and
broke apart near the airport on Wednesday, killing 169
of those aboard, the government-run news agency said.
It listed 13 survivors.
Three Americans, the cockpit crew, were killed when
the plane hit a treetop on its third attempt to land in ex
tremely bad weather, airline spokesman Leo Marapin
said in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Three of Suriname’s senior military leaders were
aboard and presumed dead.
Also reported aboard were at least three top Dutch
soccer players of Surinamese origin. Their fates were
unknown.
The Surinam Airways DC-8 was completing ""f
night flight from Amsterdam to the capital of this 5 '
nation on the northern shoulder of South Artt"!
Airline spokesman Glenn Jie in Amsterdam said r
passengers were Surinamese living in the Netherla"
Survivors were taken to a hospital.
Airline spokesman Robbi Lachmising told repo 1 !
in Amsterdam that the Surinamese airport hasD 0 |
dar.
Reporters at the crash site, an unpopulated tm
savannah, said it appeared the plane struck two ]
and split into four parts. Heavy rain had turnf"
area into a near-swamp, slowing rescue vehicles.
The Suriname News Agency said the plane's
recorder was recovered.