I AM TRYING to run the country and campaign on the issues that concern people, the economy and education.
Who could this be? Apparently none other than George Bush.
March 21, 1992 If Britain has become a convert to eloctions without policies, its model After 'Super Tuesday', the profoundly misnamed round of Democrat and Republican primages, it seoms pretty clear that ton and George Bush is in the offing. No. 18 he does have the distinction of dralt. dodging in the Vietsam war. But the primaries, along with popular opinion polls, have shown Bust to be in a solty siate And they show a growing dissatisfaction with the tired old policies that are now being repackaged and served up once again. Votes for Pat Buchanan, leader of the evangelist far right in the Republican party. gave Bush a nasty shock Votes in Louisiana, where ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke recently took 40% of the vote. give a pointer to where Buchanan lies or the political spectrum.
Throo quarters of Duke's voters Thatcheresque move to integrate the loony right. Buchanan doesnt wear a pointy hat himsolf, but on social policy, there's not much to choose between him and the KKK.
By Gregor Benton LIU SHANQING was freed on December 25, 1991 from near Guangzhou, South China, after serving prisoner Liu had been arrested and imprisoned on charges of 'counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement He served the entire term, without remission.
Liu, aged 39, a leader of the Hong Kong student movement in the early 1970s, was arrested while trying visit the families of He Qiu and Wang Xizhe, arrested leaders of China's 1970s 'Democracy Wall' movement.
For the first seven or eight months he was interrogated almost daily and pressed to admit to counter revolutionary activities.
He refused, insisting to the contrary that his activities had been revolutionary. He called NO, NO, THIS IS INDePeNDeNT SeRBISTaN on his prosecutors to provide evidence of his wrong-doing but they failed to do so In 1985, acting under great pressure, Liu wrote a letter admitting that he had done wrong and requesting lenience. He was then awarded some small privileges, including a radio. Solitary confinement A year later, he withdrew his confession and was returned to solitary confinement. He was also refused the right to work, and was thus deprived of both exercise and a small income.
The worst time came when it was discovered that he had given his family a copy of the verdict against him and asked them to publish it in Hong Kong.
As punishment, he was kept in a darkened.room for one month. He said When I was in a dark cell. was chained at the feet...At times, nobody came International News for 24 hours on end...The Chinese prison system is really like hell on earth. Human dig nity 15 completely downtrodden.' adopted Liu as a prisoner of conscience, and his friends in Hong Kong organised hunger зеко ана appeais t ксер case in the public eye. Liu's prisoners given by John Major to Li Peng during his Victo Beijing in September 1991 The Hong Kong colonial uthorities also appealed on his behalf. But he was shown no mercy, unilke other political prisoners who had displayed 'a cooperative attitude.
Liu was greeted as a hero on his return to Hong Kong. where he continues to campaign for the release of China's other imprisoned dissidents, revolutionary marxist) and Wei Jingsheng (a liberal democrat)
But not all Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists joined in the movement to protest against Liu's arrest and imprisonment. Many were biased against him because of his Trotskyist ties.
Trotskyist
Back in Hong Kong, Liu told a press conference Tam a Marxist Leninist, trotskyite 1s a term generally used against us by our enemies. However, if people say that i share Trotsky's ideas, I would accept that. I support Trotsky' Chang Wenguang er of the Executive of the Hong Kong Citizens Patriotic Federation in Support of the Democracy Movement ing in the Hong Kong newspaper Xinbao expressed his deep regret the movement's failure to rally round Liu Shanging.
With his defiant stand against political persecution, Liu is the most recent in a linof trotskyist political prisoners in China. His arrest happened twenty nine years to the after that of two to three hundred trotskyists in 1952 by the newly-proclaimed Mao Twenty seven years later in 1979, Zheng Chaolin and eleven other survivors of this first wave of repression were freed under supervision, their ideals (like Liu Shanging's) in-