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...accept a seat. The Chinese seemed particularly worried about Japan's role; they insisted that Tokyo had a key "go-between" role in the "disgusting duet" played by Washington and Taipei. N.C.N.A. saw dark portents in the recent visit of Chiang Kai-shek's personal secretary, Chang Chun, to Tokyo; Peking seems to fear that Japan is easing into the role of protector of Tai wan, which was under Japanese rule for a half-century before...
...victim, who was later identified as Chang Shi-jung, 31, had been serving as an agricultural adviser with the Chinese embassy in Algeria. He had reportedly informed the French embassy in Algiers that he wanted to defect, and the Chinese had learned of his plans. When French officials at Orly told the Chinese diplomats that Chang was too indisposed to travel, they became agitated and shouted "Bullies!" and "Fascists!" at the police. While the Pakistani plane took off without any of the Chinese aboard, both sides swiftly called up reinforcements. Fifty tough riot troopers of the C.R.S. (Compagnies...
...Chinese made two coordinated rushes at the riot troopers, who fought them off. Once alone Chinese attacked the troopers with karate blows. One Chinese bit a C.R.S. officer. Finally, the French decided to take the man in an ambulance to a Paris hospital. As he was led away, Chang, who perhaps sought to establish an alibi that the French were abducting him, just in case he should decide to go home after all, pretended to protest violently. Once out of sight of his countrymen, he calmed down and chatted pleasantly with a Chinese-speaking French intelligence officer...
France, which was one of the first major Western nations to establish diplomatic relations with Peking in 1964, tried to hush up the Orly incident. But the Ministry of the Interior quietly announced that Chang would be granted political asylum if he decided to apply for it. The French delicacy was probably prompted by a similar incident in The Netherlands five years ago. At that time, a Chinese delegation barricaded itself inside its house in The Hague for five months rather than submit to police questioning about the sudden death of a colleague who had apparently attempted to defect. During...
...JAMES C. CHANG Cedar Falls, Iowa...