The Region - News from Oct. 2, 1985

A military court in Taiwan has assigned the publisher of a Monterey Park-based Chinese-language newspaper to a two-year term of “protective guidance”--roughly equivalent to probation--for allegedly distributing banned copies of her newspaper on the island. Lee Ya-ping, 62, a Taiwan citizen with U.S. immigrant status, was arrested Sept. 17 for allegedly publishing Communist Chinese propaganda in her newspaper, the International Daily News. She was released Sept. 26 after a protest from the U.S. State Department. Under Taiwan law, Lee may be assigned to the responsibility of a relative, rather than a parole officer, for the duration of her sentence, according to Victor Chang, a spokesman in the Los Angeles office of the Coordination Council for North American Affairs, Taiwan’s quasi-official diplomatic mission.