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A6 Spokane Chronicle, April 6, 1983 AR rhretnirlA Wad Anil! A tkf vh, )1 China lodges strong protest on U.S. asylum action PEKING (AP) China lodged a strong protest with 0 the United States today, calling the Reagan administration's granting of political asylum to Chinese tennis star Hu Na untenable legally and "condemnable morally." from leaving the United States for home," the note said. It said they had written to Secretary of State George P. Shultz asking that she be sent home for a family reunion. "Based on the excuse of the non-existent persecution of Hu Na, the U.S.

government's announced decision now subjects Hu Na's parents to indefinite and painful separation from their daughter," the note stated. "This act of the U.S. government is not only untenable from the legal point of view but also condemnable mdrally," it declared. "China will never, for the sake of its relations with the United States, abandon its principled stand of safeguarding its state sovereignty and national dignity." The State Department in Washington has denied that U.S. officials coerced Miss Hu.

the United States and the joint communique of 1982." The 1982 communique included a U.S. promise not to increase the quantity or quality of arms sales to the rival Nationalist Chinese regime on Taiwan. China maintains that Taiwan is a renegade province and says planned U.S. arms sales to the island in 1983 violate the agreement. The U.S.

position is that inflation accounts for the higher dollar figure. The latest Chinese protest said the asylum for Miss Hu "is a grave political incident long premeditated and deliberately created by the United States." It added, "The U.S. government has connived at the enticement and coercion of Hu Na by a handful of Americans working in collusion with some elements of Taiwan." Miss Hu's parents "are in deep mental and physical distress as a result of Hu Na's being long prevented she had refused to join the party to serve as a model to youth. The Chinese protest declared, "In spite of its of trepeated desire to develop friendly relations with China, the U.S. government has kept doing things that infringe on China's sovereignty, interfere in its internal affairs and hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.

The unreasonable decision on the Hu Na problem is one more case in point." The note followed Qi's declaration at a news briefing Tuesday that the U.S. action would harm cultural and sports exchanges and overall relations. The Chinese protest note did not repeat that state- ment, but said, "How relations develop is dependent on whether the United States truly acts on the basic norms governing international relations and the principles laid down in the communique on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and 1 i Vice Foreign Minister Han Xu handed the protest to U.S. Ambassador Arthur W. Hummel Qi Huaiyuan, director of the Foreign Ministry's information depart- ment, told reporters.

"The question of her being persecuted did not exist, nor would it occur after she returns home. As to the allegation that she would be forced to join the Chinese 0 Communist Party, it is a sheer lie," the protest note 6 said. The United States announced Monday it was grant ing asylum to Miss Hu, who said she had received a 'I threatening letter from a high Chinese official because onsinamosleigionoonigiC) dammilmnimommillni 0 0 I 11 11 I Values good thru 4-10-83 good thru storm tor lents wide re otimmy, a lila- p- New 'wow MI ME tor 1 ents 1 lid I II re cc! la storm I 1 I Anaheim, fireman rescues Skyway rider Disneyland ride adds thrills AP photo A massive storm tormenting the West with deep snow and destructive winds blamed for at least eight deaths flooded parts of Louisiana and Mississippi with up to 7 inches of rain today as violent thunderstorms crashed through the Mississippi Valley. Almost 2 feet of new snow had fallen since Tuesday in the mountains of New Mexico as a snowstorm spread from the southern Rockies to the upper Plains, where a wet snowfall caused a rash of traffic accidents in Minneapolis. About 7 inches of April snow was on the ground at El Paso, Texas, on the Mexican border, with 21 inches measured at Cloudcroft, N.M.

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"The scariest part was when we were swaying from side to side." Her teen-age brother, Garrett, said, "I was freaking out. I was screaming and my sister said, "Shut up. If you panic, I panic." Disneyland provided free Mickey Mouse sweatshirts while the rescued riders' wet clothes whirred in Disneyland clothes dryers, and passengers were taken to the infirmary for hot food. Flores said the Skyway will be closed until at least Thursday while Disneyland officials Investigate why the cable slipped. A strong gust popped a cable off its pulley wheel, Flores said, leaving riders stranded 30 to 40 feet in the air.

Soon the swaying stopped, but passengers said a cold rain drenched them while they waited for rescue. Phil Winkelaar from Alberta, Canada, had brought his wife and four children to Disney- land for the first time. "There was no wind when we got in," said his daughter, Susan. The scariest part was when we were swain from side to side. swaying Her teen-age brother, Garrett, said, "I was freaking out.

I was screaming and my sister said "Sht up. If youpanic, I ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Terror gave way to cold and wet misery as 104 people were trapped for 212 hours in gondolas swaying about 40 feet off the ground after violent winds disabled Disneyland's Skyway ride. No injuries were reported and the riders were plucked to safety with cherry pickers and fire department ladder trucks Tuesday afternoon. Renete Huegel, 38, who was vacationing from Ontario, Canada, with her husband, Heinz, said, "I was so scared I thought I was going to fall off." "The toughest ones to rescue were the ones hanging over the water in the Submarine Lagoon," Disneyland publicist Al Flores said.

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