Chinese activists arrested in homes
BEIJING (AP) - The detention of
two of China’s most influential dissi
dents and three other pro-democracy
activists underscores the government’s
stated determination to crush any chal
lenge to one-party Communist rule.
Legislative chairman Li Peng, the
Communist Party’s No. 2 man, was
quoted Tuesday as saying that
Western-style democracy was inap
propriate for China and that opposi
tion groups would not be tolerated.
Police in two cities went to the
homes of Xu Wenli, Qin Yongmin and
other members of the fledgling China
Democracy Party on Monday night
and took them away, relatives and a
human rights group said Tuesday.
The police action was one of the
most severe since dissidents
announced their attempt to form an
opposition group in June to challenge
the Communist Party’s monopoly on
power. Since then, police have ques
tioned, briefly detained and harassed
the activists.
If organizations seek “the multi
party system and try to negate the
u
We have said for some weeks now that we
are disturbed by the recent number of
detentions of dissidents that serve to limit
political debate in China”
James P. Rubin
State Department spokesman
leadership of the Communist Party,
then they will not be allowed to exist,”
Li said in an interview carried Tuesday
by the official Xinhua News Agency.
In Washington, State Department
Spokesman James P. Rubin said the
United States views Xu’s detention “as
a serious step in the wrong direction.”
“We have said for some weeks now
that we are disturbed by the recent
number of detentions of dissidents that
serve to limit political debate in
China,” Rubin said. “We have repeat
edly communicated this view to
Chinese authorities.”
Police on Tuesday informed the
family of Qin Yongmin that he had
been arrested for plotting to overthrow
the government, the Hong Kong
based Information Center of Human
Rights and Democratic Movement in
China said. The crime carries a maxi
mum penalty of life imprisonment.
Police who went to Xu’s home
Monday night produced arrest and
search warrants that identified him as
a criminal suspect, said his wife, He
Xitong. Unlike previous occasions
when Xu was held only for short peri
ods, his wife feared this time that
authorities were planning to charge
and convict him.
There was no further word on his
situation, she said late Tuesday.
“Xu Wenli has already paid heavi
ly for democracy. I understand that he
is ready to pay again,” she said. “Xu
Wenli won’t give up.”
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■ The Justice Department
says the records are needed
to ensure that gun purchases
are kept legitimate.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Accusing
the government of illegal snooping,
the National Rifle Association sued in
federal court Tuesday to bar the FBI
from keeping lists of law-abiding peo
ple who buy guns under a newly
revised law.
The Justice Department says FBI
records on new gun buyers will be
kept for only six months or less. It says
the time is needed to permit audits to
assure that all gun purchases are truly
legitimate and that weapons do not
end up in the hands of criminals or
mentally unstable people.
The NRA lawsuit, which named
Attorney General Janet Reno as a
defendant, said lists should be kept
only of people barred by law from
owning guns because of felonies or
other problems uncovered in a new
computerized system of instant back
ground checks.
NRA lawyers said at a news con
ference that keeping government lists
of people found fully eligible to own a
firearm represents an illegal bid to
establish a national gun registry of
new gun buyers.
“Lists on law-abiding people have
never been a good idea,” said NRA
Executive Vice President Wayne
LaPierre. “This is about privacy and
freedom from government snooping
into our lives.”
The new FBI instant-check sys
tem, which governs the purchase of
handguns, shotguns and rifles, took
effect Monday. The system it replaced
applied to handguns only, was con
ducted by local and state law enforce
ment authorities and involved a five
day waiting period.
The NRA suit contends that the
Brady Act, the law that requires a
background check before a gun can be
legitimately sold, forbids establishing
a registry of gun buyers and directs
the Justice Department to “destroy all
records.”
Justice Department officials said
there is no intent to create a permanent
gun registry.
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GOP approves subpoenas
investigating fund raising
WASHINGTON (AP) - Just
weeks before their self-imposed
impeachment deadline,
Republicans on the House Judiciary
Committee approved subpoenas
Tuesday seeking fund-raising evi
dence against President Clinton.
But several said they didn’t
expect the move to alter the course
or timing of their inquiry.
Democrats from House
Minority Leader Dick Gephardt on
down ridiculed the move, approved
on a 20-15 party-line vote, as an
attempt to appease the president’s
most conservative critics.
After the vote, Republican com
mittee lawyers went to court for a
second time in an effort to persuade
a federal judge to seek internal
Justice Department memos in which
top law enforcement officials laid
out fund-raising evidence against
Clinton in arguing for the appoint
ment of a special prosecutor.
U.S. District Judge Norma
Holloway Johnson on Friday had
issued a sealed ruling that the com
mittee had not demonstrated a suffi
cient need for the memos, which
include secret grand jury material.
Committee Republicans believe the
subpoena will strengthen their argu
ment, said panel spokesman Paul
McNulty.
Corporate takeover creates
world’s largest company
NEW YORK (AP) - Pulling off
the richest corporate takeover in
history, Exxon Corp. will buy
Mobil Corp. for $73.7 billion to
create the world’s largest company
and reunite two of the biggest
pieces left by the breakup of John D.
Rockefeller’s Standard Oil empire.
The deal, announced Tuesday,
joins the nation’s two largest oil and
gas companies. It’s the latest exam
ple of rapid consolidation in an
industry where profits have been
slashed by worldwide overproduc
tion and weak demand.
However, despite the massive
size of the new Exxon Mobil Corp.,
the global trends that prompted die
deal are expected to keep pump
prices at rock-bottom levels for
now.
Exxon Mobil will surpass Royal
Dutch-Shell Group as the No. 1
energy company and vault past
General Motors Corp. as the largest
corporation in die world, with $203
billion in combined revenue last
year. Exxon is about twice Mobil’s
size in annual revenue.
Students mug for camera
in ‘Got Milk?’ ad campaign
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and in the second one, they’re leaning
over laughing hysterically,” she said.
More than 120 students posed
Tuesday at the union and the Hewit
Athletic Academic Center. One UNL
student’s photo will appear on
http://www.whymlk.com and in a “Got
Milk?” ad in the Daily Nebraskan.
The milk mustache campaign,
which was sponsored by the UNL
chapter of the Public Relations Student
Society of America, will visit 50 col
leges and universities around the
nation this year.
One winner will be chosen from
each school, and one of those 50 will
be featured in a Sports Illustrated
advertisement. About 7,500 college
students will participate in die contest
this year.
Last year’s winner was a male stu
dent from Indiana State University.
Reidy said she hoped the campaign
would motivate students to drink three
glasses of milk a day. She said many
students avoid milk because they think
it is fattening.
“A lot of girls, especially, are con
cerned about their weight, and they
think milk is a heavy food,” Reidy said
Reidy said that skim milk is fat
free and provides calcium, which is
essential for building bone mass. She
said drinking skim milk would not
cause students to gain weight
“If you drink a gallon of whole
milk a day, you’ll probably gain a little
weight” she said.
However, most students who posed
with a milk mustache said they proba
bly weren’t going to change their milk
drinking habits.
Allison Pagehom, a freshman gen
eral studies major, said she drinks milk
“hardly at all.”
“I just don’t like milk. I’ve never
liked milk,” she said.
However, Pagehom thought the ad j
campaign was fim.
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