Diplomacy zine -- Tribute to revolution From: Eric_S_Klien@cup.portal.com Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1989 00:03:47 +0000 Issue #71 of ELECTRONIC PROTOCOL: Autumn '08 of the game PANZER (BNC number 1989H) England retreats A STP-NOR Germany disbands A SIL Winter '08 of the game PANZER (BNC number 1989H) England builds A LON Turkey builds A CON Summer '05 of the game MAELSTROM (BNC number 1989AA) One player may be having e-mail troubles, retreats will be posted tommorrow. Spring '04 of the game RED STORM (BNC number 1989AB) (GM is MaryFW@cup.portal.com) Problems with one player, I will look into them! Autumn and Winter '05 of the game PEARL HARBOR (BNC number 1989AV) (GM is Adams@multiflow.com/Steve Adams) Fall 1905 Pearl Harbor Diplomacy Builds : Steve Adams, GM ============================================================================== Retreats : AUSTRIA : A BUD retreats to TRI - "Death to the Italians!" ============================================================================== Builds : (number of total supply centers are in []) (+ = build, - = disband, 0 = no change) AUSTRIA : 0 [ 2] ENGLAND : +3 [ 9] F London, F Edinburgh, A Liverpool FRANCE : -1 [ 4] A Gascony disbands GERMANY : +3 [11] A Munich, A Kiel, F Berlin ITALY : -3 [ 2] F Ionian dibands, A Apulia disbands, F Adriatic disbands RUSSIA : -2 [ 0] A Ukraine disbands TURKEY : +1 [ 6] A Smyrna ============================================================================== Unit Locations : AUSTRIA : A Serbia, A Trieste ENGLAND : A St. Petersburg, F North Sea, F Mid-Atlantic, F Portugal, F Western Mediterranean, F Naples, F London, F Edinburgh, A Yorkshire FRANCE : A Brest, A Paris, A Marsailles, F Spain(sc) GERMANY : F Belgium, A Moscow, A Picardy, A Budapest, A Venice, A Rome, A Burgandy, A Munich, A Kiel, F Berlin ITALY : A Vienna, A Tyrolia RUSSIA : TURKEY : A Sevastapol, A Rumania, A Bulgaria, F Black Sea, F Aegean, A Smyrna [Germany is one unit short due to having only 3 home centers to build on] ============================================================================== _Weekly World News_ 1905 Builds Edition LAST RUSSIAN ARMY DISBANDED! TURKEY CONTINUES IT'S COMEBACK. AUSTRIA HANGS O> ITALIANS IN TROUBLE! FRANCE BEGINS TO CRACK UNDER WEIGHT OF JOINT ANLGO-GERMAN ATTACKS! The last Russian troops, stationed in the Ukraine, disbanded due to the lack of supplies. The conquest of Russia is complete. Northern Russia is occupied by the English, Central and Western Russia by the Germans, and Southern Russia by the Turks. Turkey continues her comeback. She is now very secure in her position, and is beginning to advance in the Balkans. Greece looks like easy pickings. France has lost a unit due to lack of supplies, and now stands to fall under t> weight of the English Naval Forces. German armies have occupied French Territory, and when units are removed due to English conquests, will jump on t> remaining defenders. Italy is close to being eliminated. She has no units defending Greece, and Vienna is threatened. Austria is in a similar position, having only two units, and being directly threatened by Germany and Turkey. ============================================================================== Spring 1906 moves are due Sunday, June 18, at 10PM EDT. Happy Diplomacy! -Steve (gm) Spring '04 of D-DAY (BNC number 1989AW) (GM is MaryFW@Cup.portal.com, Starting Summer '04 GM will be Pav@cs.duke.edu) Problems with one player, I will look into them! Autumn and Winter '02 of NAVARONE (BNC number 1989AX) (GM is Pwoodruf@orion.cf.uci.edu) Retreats for FALL 1902 GERMANY: A Hol - Kie, A Mun disbands Builds/(Disbands) for WINTER 1902 AUSTRIA: F Tri ENGLAND: F Lon FRANCE: F Mar GERMANY: (A Ruh) ITALY: none RUSSIA: A War TURKEY: none Units: AUSTRIA: A Vie, A Bud, A Ser, F Gre, F Tri ENGLAND: F Nwg, F Nwy, F Hol, A Yor, A Bel, F Lon FRANCE: A Pic, F Mid, A Mun, A Bur, A Gas, F Mar GERMANY: F Hel, F Den, A Kie ITALY: F Tun, A Apu, A Boh, A Tyrol RUSSIA: F Swe, A StP, A Sil, A Ukr, F Rum, A War TURKEY: F Eas, F Aeg, A Bul, A Smy ***************************************** Press: ******* GERMANY ON THE ROPES! QUINTUPLE ENTENTE IN THE MAKING? Lisboa (Reuters) - Dispatches from the north inform us that the German Empire is under severe attack on all sides; rumor has it that the Kaiser is at the point of fleeing to South America. Anglo-French and Austro-Italian alliances have emerged, with the Czar playing it close to the vest; all five seem to be cooperating against the Hun. A continued five-nation entente will make it difficult for Turkey as well. All Europe waits with baited breath for the treachery which seems bound to intervene before long. In the meantime, a naval campaign appears in prospect, as all save Russia have been adding to their fleets this winter. Lisbon merchants are looking forward to providing entertainment and pro- visions to visiting naval units. ************************** Pete's Points: Votes on the one-week delay for Turkey and the 10-day time period both suc- ceeded. Accordingly, the next orders (spring 1903) are due Sunday, June 25, at 10 pm EST, and the orders for Fall 1903 will be due Wednesday, July 5 at the same time. Actually, I think to save excessive calendar shifts, I will make the moves alternately ten and eleven days, i.e. Wednesdays and Sundays. Retreats and Builds are still due in two days after moves. France (Dave Edmunds) has temporarily lost his UUCP connection due to a system crash. He should be back online by sometime next week. Spring '01 of BLITZKRIEG (BNC number not known) (GM is dougi@astro.as.utexas.edu/Doug Ingram) First moves will definitely be due June 18, 1989. Spring '01 of OPERATION OVERLORD (BNC number not known) (GM is Davisje@crdgw2.crd.ge.com/Jon Davis) First moves are due June 25, 1989. GM comments: I could use some *GMs*. Especially for my postal zine, PROTOCOL. This issue is dedicated to the thousands of Chinese people who have slaughtered, tortured, or imprisoned in their recent fight for freedom. Note that more Chinese and Russian citizens have been killed by their government than the total amount of civilian and military deaths in WW II. About 50 million deaths compared to the mere 48 million killed in WW II. To put these figures in perspective, China alone has killed *FIVE* times as many as its own citizens compared to the amount of Jews that Hitler killed. And of course, many other communist countries have knocked off plenty of their own citizens, with the Russian backed regime in Cambodia knocking off 50% of its citizens, for example. And communist countries have never minded wiping out the populations of their neighbors, as Russia proved when it recently wiped out 10% of Afghanistan's population as an additional 40% fled the country. And to anyone who thinks that Russia would never again use tanks against anti-government demonstrators: just a month ago, 20 people were killed by poison gas and shovels as part of the country tried to secede again. But I would be willing to admit that countries like Cuba and North Korea make Russia look like a modern, democratic palace of freedoms. And, yes, it does look like all communist nations will become democratic over the long run. But now for the article: Taken from The Boston Globe, June 13, 1989 issue: A RELUCTANT DECISION TO LEAVE HOMELAND By Seth Faison BEIJING - Xiao Yi did not want to leave China. "This is my home," she kept insisting. "I've got to see what happens." Like nearly everyone in this city, she had been riveted by the events of recent weeks, and even the thought of going away seemed to her like some sort of betrayal. Although she was more politically conservative than most of her friends, often expressing skepticism about the wisdom of student activity, she could not fail to be moved by the swell of patriotic emotion that the demonstrations evoked. On June 3, the night when tanks and soldiers finally moved in to take control of the city, she stood watching from the balcony of her parents' apartment building, ducking when shooting broke out. A bullet blasted through the concrete floor of the balcony and grazed her lower back, drawing blood. One elderly tenant in her building refused to believe that Chinese soldiers could actually be ordered to fire on their own people. She showed him her bruise. "Then he believed me," she chuckled later, trying to make light of the matter. Xiao Yi was not a typical Chinese woman. Coming from a well- connected family, she had won high marks at college and a scholarship to work on a PhD at an Ivy League university, where she spent five years. She enjoyed life in America, especially the movies and the ice cream. But something in her remained determined to return to China, and in 1988, she came back to work for an American multinational corporation in Beijing. Xiao Yi played no role in the demonstrations. She had committed no crime. Unlike many of her friends, she had no desire to see the Communist Party thrown out of office or even badly embarrassed. But now she was in danger. She had many foreign journalist friends and her fluency in English and understanding of Chinese politics had gotten her a temporary job as an adviser to a foreign television crew. During a crackdown like the one now going on in Beijing, anyone close to foreigners is suspect. Xiao Yi could be accused of passing state secrets merely by having spoken to a journalist on the telephone about the position of tanks deployed outside her window. She did not want to leave. "They're not going to go after me," she laughed, as if she found it impossible to believe that she would merit attention from the shadowy figures of the Chinese secret police. She promised concerned friends that she would stay home and quit working for the television crew. But she found it boring to be indoors, even when troops patrolling outside were still shooting at random in the streets. Last Thursday, when she dropped in on the hotel suite where her TV network friends had set up shop, she could not help but start working again, making phone calls and monitoring the television news. A friend who was amazed to find her still there took her outside. "Don't you realize what is going on is this country?" he barked at her, squeezing her arm. "They could come after you next." In fact, that night, while she stayed with a friend, a nondescript- looking man in a plain white shirt rang the bell at her home. "Who are you? I've never seen you here before," said the maid, who had worked for the family for 16 years and who knew all of Xiao Yi's friends. He left. Xiao Yi was suddenly terrified. She began to think for the first time what it might be like to spend years in a Chinese jail. A diplomat acquaintance hurriedly arranged a visa. Having studied abroad, Xiao Yi is one of the privileged Chinese who own a passport. Airline offices were closed and a plane ticket would have to bought at the airport. The departure from home was awkward. Her parents, longtime Communist Party members with years of experience in accepting the worst, had encouraged her not to go. There was no reason to be afraid, they said. With three other children already living in the United States, they had hoped that their youngest would remain in Beijing. Now they accepted the disappointment of her departure. Her mother prepared a meal for Xiao Yi and the friend who came to drive her to the airport, and was distressed when the friend said there was no time to eat. Carrying her packed bags out of her parent's home, walking past the balcony upon which she had been grazed by a bullet, Xiao Yi fell silent. Her parents came out to wait for the elevator with her, but little was said. There were no embraces, no tears. Everyone watched the light over the elevator as they waited for it to arrive. As they drove to the airport, Xiao Yi wondered when she would return. Her friend wondered if she would get past immigration. The airport was nearly deserted. A few foreigners were sitting on top of their luggage in the departure hall, apparently waiting for a flight that had been delayed. An airline clerk appeared at the check-in counter only 45 minutes prior to takeoff, and appeared happy that a new customer had turned up. Asked how many passengers he expected on the flight to Hong Kong, he smiled and said: "As many as possible." The diplomats' and foreign students' mad rush to evacuate had peaked a few days earlier, and only a few tired and depressed-looking businessmen joined the check-in line. The airline clerk paged slowly through Xiao Yi's passport looking for her visa. Impatient, she grabbed the document to show it to him, nearly ripping the page with the visa on it. Xiao Yi was trying not to act nervous. She took an envelope full of cash out of one pocket and put it in another one, asking her friend if it was illegal to take more than $5,000 out of the country. He did not know. She stepped over to the immigration counter, her heart beating faster. Police could be seen seated a few yards away, but they did not seem to be watching travelers very carefully. The immigration officer, looking sleepy, checked her boarding pass through the checkpoint. She turned to flash a smile to her friend. A wave, and she was gone. I am enjoying moderating this zine, keep that mail coming! Eric Klien Up