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Army safeguards
From Associated Press reports
BEIJING China's army will
'maintain a strong presence "to safe
guard public security" in the Beijing
area following the lifting of martial
"law, the government's top spokesman
said Thursday.
Up to 1,000 troops marched across
Tiananmen Square Thursday morning,
' hours after seven months of martial law
officially ended in the capital.
.. "I thought martial law was over,"
said one of the several thousand people
on the 100-acre square as he watched
the military procession.
... The government spokesman. Yuan
Mu, told a news conference there was a
.''small increase" in troop levels in
. Beijing and its suburbs, but he gave no
indication of how many soldiers would
be stationed around the capital.
Yuan said the military presence was
necessary to "safeguard public security
and the peaceful work of the people."
He said martial law ended because
"the task of martial law has been victo
riously completed, the situation in
Beijing and throughout the country is
' stable and the social order has returned
"to normal."
President Bush on Thursday praised
the lifting of martial law as a "very
sound step" and a "good sign."
" There was no suggestion from the
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sponding to strong pressure from the
West to lift martial law as a signal that
it is easing its policy of harsh suppres
sion of political dissent.
Premier Li Peng Wednesday night
announced the end to.martial law which
was imposed in May after pro-democracy
crowds of up to one million people
took over the streets of Beijing.
Li stressed that the decision to bring
troops into Beijing in the June military
crackdown had been "timely, neces
sary and correct."
Police replaced military sentries in
the city at the end of October, and the
lifting of martial law had no visible
effect on the city except that Tian
anmen Square, previously entered only
by Chinese with proper documents,
again became open to all citizens.
About 150,000 troops entered Bei
jing to quell the pro-democracy unrest
of last spring, and many are believed to
remain unobtrusively behind the walled
compounds of the city.
Chinese sources said the military
went on full alert in late December
when the overthrow of the pro-China
Nicolae Ceausescu regime in Romania
raised fears of political unrest in Bei
jing. On Thursday the troops, many shout
ing in cadence orsinging military songs,
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marched across Tiananmen Square and
entered a compound next to the Great
Hall of the People in an obvious show
of military force.
Although tough anti-protest laws and
surveillance of university campuses
remain in place, many expressed relief
that martial law was over. "This is the
way it should be," said an anonymous
high school student about the opening
of the square to the public again.
But others, also speaking on condi
tion of anonymity, said the end of martial
law will have little meaning as long as
political repression continues.
"The government draws a circle and
you have to stand inside," said a Bei
jing teacher. "It's like the Russian
Gulag, only a different size," he said,
adding that "we haven't forgotten the
students" who stood up to the military.
Hundreds, and perhaps thousands,
of people were killed when troops
stormed the city on June 3-4 to drive
student demonstrators from the square.
Since then thousands of political activ
ists have been arrested, and many lan
guish in jail without formal charges.
Asked about students under deten
tion, Yuan said only that judicial de
partments were still carrying out inves
tigations. Gao Xin, one of four intellectuals
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who began a hunger strike for democ
racy just before military assault, has
been freed after six months in jail, but
Gao, who looked much thinner, said
Thursday he could not talk about the
experience.
The government spokesman said
China would take a "prudent attitude"
toward providing the names of those
killed in the crackdown because many
relatives of the victims were "not quite
willing to have the names announced in
the papers."
Yuan said that the situation in the
Tibetan capital of Lhasa, also under
martial law since the outbreak of pro
independence riots in March, was dif
ferent from that of Beijing and that he
had no information on when martial
law would end there.
China's official newspapers said the
nation cannot relax its vigilance against
anti-socialist enemies.
"Lifting martial law doesn't mean
all is well," said the Communist Party's
People's Daily. It said the "few people
who adhere to bourgeois liberalization
refuse to admit their defeat."
The Liberation Army Daily said the
army, "the pillar of the people's demo
cratic dictatorship in China, will not
slacken its vigilance ideologically."
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Congress' homeless aid cuts
cause counties to protest
From Associated Press reports
WASHINGTON Some 126
counties that received aid for the
homeless last year through a pro
gram created by Congress have been
dropped for 1990. They include 20
counties with double-digit unem
ployment rates and one with a pov
erty rate of 42.7 percent.
Advocates for the homeless, as
well as local officials in the 30 states
hit by the cutback, are protesting.
But program administrators say they
are merely fulfilling a mandate to
target the aid to the nation's areas
with the highest rate of homeless
ness. Congress didn't cut funds for the
$ 1 24.9 million Emergency Food and
Shelter National Board Program. The
126 jurisdictions lost out when they
fell below eligibility levels for local
poverty, unemployment or the size
of the overall labor force. Some may
still receive limited grants from a
separate fund set aside for under
funded areas.
Twenty-eight new counties also
became eligible this year.
The rejected counties are as large
as Oklahoma's Tulsa County, in
cluding the city of Tulsa, and as
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small as Madison Parish, La. Madi
son has unemployment and poverty
rates of 16 percent and 42.7 percent
respectively. But the parish, which
got $22,000 in 1989, lost its eligibil
ity because it had fewer than the .
required total of 1 ,000 people unem-;
ployed, according to the program's
figures.
Poll shows U.S. job dissatifaction
WASHINGTON A majority of
American workers are doing what
they do for such reasons as simple
chance or lack of choice, while just
41 percent hold jobs that they had
planned, according to a poll released
Thursday.
The results indicate "that many
people are trapped at less than they
could do," said Sharon Dannan, re
search director at a Cleveland-based
group called 9 to 5, National Asso
ciation of Working Women.
"I don't think it bodes well. People
aren't looking at their job as a life
long development, as a way to grow.
They're not dreaming of the stars."
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