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News Editor for This Issues: Julian E. Barnes '93 Night Editors: Elie G. Kaunfer '95 Mary Louise Kelly '93 Philip P. Pan '93 Joshua W. Shenk '93 June Shih '94 Ira E. Stoll '94 Photo Editors: Gregory Engel '92 Hau Liu '94 Design Editor: Dante E. A. Ramos...
Kathleen D. Liu...
Kevin McCarthy (Brown) pinned Eric Liu (Harvard...
...month with the same accusations. Charges of inciting counterrevolutionary agitation and propaganda have reportedly been -- or will soon be -- brought against at least nine other Tiananmen Square activists, including Wang Dan, 25, the Peking University student who helped set up the student forum known as the Democracy Salon, and Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic and lecturer at Beijing Normal University. A guilty verdict for counterrevolutionary activity carries a sentence of at least five years in jail; subversion carries a minimum penalty of 15 years in jail, but could also mean life imprisonment or death...
...that outside attempts to influence China's judicial system "will get nowhere." And last week, Congressman Robert Torricelli, a New Jersey Democrat and a member of the House subcommittee on Asian affairs, who was visiting Beijing, took up the issue of the detainees in discussions with Vice Foreign Minister Liu Huaqiu and other Chinese officials. Torricelli said he urged the government to grant amnesty to the detainees and explained that assuming the West no longer cared about the fate of the dissidents would be "a tragic mistake...