IN INTRODUCING THE DRAFT
THE MUNICIPAL REVOLUTIONAL: COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY ELELYST PERIODICALS WHICH HAD ATTAČNED IN
TUT, A VICE-CHATRIM
ATCUSED A SMALL NUMBER
ING WALL POSTERS AND
NATIONAL LEADERS
READING ROLE OF
BAD
AND HAD CALLED FOR THE OVERTHR).
THE COMMUNIST PARTY AND OF THE SOCIALI ELEMENTS HAD EVEN REVEALED SET NOT INTELLIGENCE AND SOLD OUT
NATIONAL INTERESTS. HE STILLS.CD MIT THE REGULATIONS WERE
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RIGHTS OF THE CITIZEN LAID DOWN IN
THE CONSTITUTION. FREEDON OF SPEECH, NEWMLLY AND DENDIST- RATION, AS WELL AS THE FREEDOM TO PUT UP HALL POSTERS AND MAKE PETITIONS, WAS BEING PROTECTED. BUT LOVE OF THESE
FREEDOMS COULD BE USED FOR DISRUPTIVE ANDPEACTIONARY ENDS.
POSTERS COULD BE PUT UP ONLY AT PLACES OF WORK OR AT ONE DESIGNATED PUBLIC SITE (IN FACT THE 20-TALLED DEMOCRACY WALL),
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4. ON 29 MARCH A LEADER OF THE BOAT OUTWOKEN HUMAN RIGHTS
DENG
CROUP WAS ARRESTED. HE HAD BEEN ONE OF THE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT'S MOST EFFECTIVE POLEMICISTS, AND WAS THE AUTHOR OF A RECENT ARTICLE CRITICISING BANG'S 14 MARCH SPEECH (MY TUR) AS DEMONSTRATING THE LACK OF ANY COMMITMENT TO
GENUINE DEMOCRACY. THE CHARGE AGAINST HIM IS COUNTER- REVOLUTION, AT ONCE HYWT VAGUE AND POTENTIALLY THE HOST SERIOUS OF CRIMES.
5. THE SWEEPING AND GENERAL NATURE OF THE NEW REGULATIONS SEEMS BOUND TO PLACE A STVENE REGTUITION OF THE EXPRESSION
OF UNORTHODOX IDEAS. 17
IT MUST BE SOUST UL WHETHER ANYTHING
BEYOND THE MOST IWIOCUOUS OR LITERARY MANIFESTATIONS OF
THE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT WILL PERSI AT THE SAME TIME
CHINESE IN REGULAR UNOFFICIAL CONTACT WITH FOREIGNERS (EG STUDENTS) HAVE HAD NEW RESTRICTIONS PLACED ON THESE
ASSOCIATION3.
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6. THIS DEVELOPMENT IS FUNDAMENTALLY CONSISTENT WITH THE STRATEGY OUTLINED IN PARAGRAPH 4 OF BY TUR, NAMELY TO ALLOW A TANED AND SURGERVIENT DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT TO REMAIN IN R EXISTENCE, BUT THE MANNER OF ITS APPLICATION IS HARSH. WE CANNOT JUDGE WITH ANY CERTAINTY WAY. THE CHINESE LEADER- SHIP WERE ALMOST CERTAINLY ALARMED THAT BOTH DURING AND AFTER THE COMCLICT WITH VIETH CERTAIN CLASSIFIED INFORMATION
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