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Show Chinese students are modern-day pioneers BOUNTIFUL Chinese students at Beijing were pioneers, too, and are moving, even after recent re-cent tragedies, toward a free society, socie-ty, according - to Macoy Mac-Murray, Mac-Murray, University Of Utah pn fessor and chairman of International Relations for the Salt Lake City Kiwanis Club. ' At the university there are about 2,000 international students, 400 mainland Chinese, and about 300 from Taiwan, he told members of the Bountiful Kiwanis Club, Tuesday. Tues-day. As a founder of the International Cultural Exchange program, he enjoys en-joys "these great people" not only at the university, but also at his home and as he hosts them in small groups at a meeting of his service club. The visit includes a sharing of the heritage of the pioneers and he pictures early Americans as a people peo-ple who were able to shape a coun try through, faith in God, as ft lustrated by the United States motto and by our songs and our prayers, r Moving from "his, experiences with international students, he reminded Kiwanians that our country coun-try is "endangered by forces eating . at our vitals," and we face sgger-ing sgger-ing problems such as drug abusei AIDS, major crimes and abortion .1 "We must wake up," he said, and as one of our songs directs, sing 7A4NearMyGodtdThcc."'- : |