The Michigan Daily - Friday, October 31, 1997 - 7 NATION/WORLD Vissident welcomes summit protest The tWashington Post WASHINGTON - Zhang Lin, a newly arrived dissident from China, sat on park bench across the street from the White House on Wednesday, taking a cigarette break to reflect on his first A erican-style protest rally. Yes, he was glad hundreds of demon- stators had filled Lafayette Square to W est human-rights abuses in his native China. Yes, he welcomed the show of support by abroad range of Americans. But by Chinese standards, he noted, the- turnout was small, there were too many disparate groups, and the atmos- phere, while boisterous at times, paled inr omparison with the euphoria at the heikht of pro-democracy demonstra- tions in China eight years ago. At the , Zhang was a young labor organiz- who helped lead nearly 50,000 Chinese workers, peasants and intellec- tuals in protest marches in his native Behgbu, a transportation hub in eastern China's Anhui province. "Maybe this was not a very large pretest because Americans are so used to seeing rallies," Zhang offered. "In China, you never see rallies like this." At 34, Zhang has served five stints in Ben Wu takes part jaili the most recent one in a labor camp Wednesday during t 1 re he says he was constantly beaten. 'ter escaping from China to avoid His first taste of another arrest, he arrived in New York whirlwind of n oncOct. 9, and he is seeking political protests and the tin asylum. He shares a modest two-bed- American political room apartment in Queens with a of Capitol Hill, hi Chinese graduate student and is learn- easy it is for ord ing to navigate the New York subway walk "right up to e system and the U.S. Immigration and "When I lived i Naturalization Service. never get within 50 AW Cobtinued from Page 1 Mackie said. "I don't know that that's from the ordinance, but the ordi- iance is certainly part of the permissive atmosphere" Mackie said. "As a citizen, I think it would be a real positive message to revoke the law." Doing so would counteract the "image of Ann Arbor as Jiang says he will cooperate with U.S. on 'China's terms' The Washington Post WASHINGTON - After a testy Capitol Hill meeting with members of Congress, Chinese President Jiang Zemin ended his visit to Washington yes- terday with a defiant speech in which he promised peaceful cooperation with the United States, but on China's terms. While saying that China would move toward democracy and greater open- ness, Jiang gave no ground on any of the human rights issues that clouded his meeting with President Clinton ott Wednesday, voiced suspicion about U.S. policy on Taiwan, and emboldened his remarks with flourishes of ideologi- cal rhetoric. In a luncheon address to foreign pol- icy organizations, Jiang defended China's human rights record in Tibetby comparing the brutal suppression of an internal uprising in 1959 with the emancipation of American slaves. "Today's Tibet is developing prosper- ously and people there are living and working in happiness and content- ment," he said. In broader terms, lie said, "As China becomes more and more developed with its people leading a better life, it can only promote world peace and stability rather than pose a threat to anyone." But he added that "world peace remains threat- ened as the old unfair and irrational international economic order is yet tobe fundamentally transformed." Jiang left Washington late yesterday, at the mid-point of an eight-day U.S. tour. He traveled to Philadelphia and New York, where he was to spend today before continuing on to Boston and Los Angeles. His stop here was Ihighlighted by a summit meeting that produced sev- eral bilateral agreensents on economic and security issues but dramatized the deep gulf hetw ees Washington and Beijing on human rights. Yesterday, Jiang reiterated an inter- pretation of human rights that has been contested strongly by Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In China, he said, fundamental rights provide for food and shelter, not the right to political dissent. "Before adequate food and clothing is ensured for the people' he said, "the enjoyment of other rights would be out of the question." Jiang said China remains committed to "the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics in the 21st cen- tury by holding high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory," which means liberalizing the country's economy but not its political life, Over breakfast, Jiang engaged about 50 congressional leaders of both parties in a polite but tough.debate over human rights and other issues such as weapons proliferation. Even though he was entering the lair of some of China's most vociferous crit- ics, Jiang ran into little more than point- ed, provocative questions that appeared in keeping with the cautious but coop- erative tone of Wednesday's White House summit. Lawmakers later described the exchange as "encouraging" but "not entirely to our satisfaction" as Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) put it after the 90-minute, closed-door "Today's Tibet is developing prosperously" - Jiang Zemin Chinese president session. While major disagreements contin- ue, "the framework for a peaceful evo- lution of this relationship (between the United States and China) is there," added Ilouse Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) But Gingrich, who was invited by Jiang to visit Tibet, also noted that he reminded Jiang "you cannot have eco- nomic freedom without political free- dom and you cannot have political free- dom without religious freedom. You can- not have a system that is half-totalitarian and half-free. It will not survive." And House Majority Leader Richard Armey (R-Tex.) handed Jiang a letter protesting religious persecution in China and call- ing it "the central obstacle to better rela- tions" with democratic countries. During a session that lasted a half- hour longer than planned, Jiang defend- ed China on all counts. "We can now claim that never before has the Chinese society been so pros- perous and open as today," Jiang said in a prepared text. China intends to "expand democracy, improve the legal system, run the country according to law and build a socialist country under the rule of law," he added. in an anti-China demonstration outside the White House he visit of Chinese President Jiang Zemin. 'fc ie ni( s3 ie tin -le in 01 reedom has been a Communist Party leader, much less a tws conferences, delegate?' he said, referring to members est glimpse of the of China's rubber-stamp parliament, the ystem. After a tour National People's Congress. marveled at how "Everything is out in the open, open nary Americans to for scrutiny here" he said. "In China, ected officials" you can never see what the government China, you could is doing because they're afraid of the meters of a Chinese people." supporting a drug culture" - an image, he said, that is held throughout the state. Sheldon said she is not yet ready to submit the Community Awareness of Substance Abuse request to City Council. She said she hopes to meet with the group again, and that she might be willing to increase the penalty to a higher amount - though not as high as state penalties. "I do not want to resort to those severe penalties," Sheldon said. tMECOMING M tlock, assistant vice provost and director of the Office of Academic and Multicultural Initiatives. "The student-alumni exchange gives students the opportuni- to talk to about 15 different professionals about career oppor- tunities and internships,' he said. I The council also expects about 300 alumni at its Saturday night fund-raising banquet, where the guest speaker will be U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks-Kilpatrick (D-Detroit). Homecoming also gives various student groups the opportu- to show off their talents to University graduates. One group rforming this weekend is the Comedy Company, a student ch and improvisational comedy show sponsored by UAC. "Our show 'Com Air' gives alumni a chance to visit with did friends, and still do something on campus after the game," said LSA junior Erica Hermatz, one of two producers of the show, which will be held in the Michigan Union tomor- vow night at 8. One student group that will benefit from Homecoming is the $1,000 winner of the Alumni Association-sponsored "Village on the Mall" miniature display of Ann Arbor con- test. Each business that participated donated $175 to have a replica of their building constructed. "Each student organization that participated built a struc- ture to resemble either the sponsor's business or a building on campus," Nuttle said. One important criterion was that the structure be weatherproof because the display will be on Ingall's Mall through Sunday, Nuttle said. Ann Kolkman, Student Alumni Council president, said the Village on the Mall contest was a great way to increase stu- dents' involvement in Homecoming. "Homecoming here is just getting started and I don't think there is a lot of student support behind it yet," Kolkman said. "But it definitely has the potential to grow and become some- thing exciting." Alpha Phi Omega took 1st Place in the contest with a replica of the store front of M-Den. UAC won 2nd Place with a replica of Hill Auditorium. The Black Volunteer Network won 3rd Place for building a model of The Kerrytown Shops. SEEKING 2 PENN STATE tickets. 919- THE BEST REPAIR SHOP FOR YOU. -383=9188. Endorsed by idols & most makers. 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