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...insult to injury, Cornell claimed that it hadn't played well. "We played much better against LIU and Oneonta," Cornell keeper Tom Ferry said. "Our defense was not kicking the ball that well, and the offense wasn't passing to feet...
...stubborn remains of the "democracy movement" that had flourished in 1978 and 1979. Most of the activities, particularly putting up posters on Peking's "democracy wall," had already been banned by the party in 1980. Several of the liberals' most articulate spokesmen were arrested that year, including Liu Qing, deputy editor of the most widely circulated underground journal, April 5th Forum...
...early victims of the current Chinese drive to crush dissent was Liu Qing, deputy editor of the April 5th Forum, the most widely respected of the unofficial journals that sprang up during the ill-fated democracy movement of 1978-79. A copy of Liu's account of how he challenged China's legal system and what happened to him afterward was recently smuggled out of the labor camp and obtained by TIME. Some excerpts...
...Liu took on the job of spreading the word about Wei's unjust punishment. "If I had not pointed out this unfairness," he writes, "I would have had to be either a coward or the worst kind of human being." On Nov. 11, 1979, Liu went to "democracy wall" in Peking to sell some of the 1,000 copies of the Wei trial transcript he had mimeographed. Agents of China's secret police, the Public Security Bureau (PSB) arrested some of the buyers. Liu then went to the PSB headquarters in Peking to seek redress for them...
Without a trial, Liu was detained for more than six months in prison, where, still insisting upon his innocence, still demanding that the authorities observe their own laws, he was held in solitary confinement for over five months. "Even for real criminals, "he notes, "solitary confinement is illegal...