On the first point. there is a serious legal question. which has already been addressed in this debate. As long as the legal question is in doubt. the United States cannot in conscience subject the Chinese students now here to a fate that is not in doubt. The vice chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the National Peoples Congress of China. recently announced that Chinese citizens who committed counterrevolutionary crime in foreign countries will be punished when they are returned to China upon expiration of their visas. We should no more risk return of these students to the present Beijing regime than a child protective services agency should return an endangered child to a known child abuser. On the second point. what will be the retaliation by Beijing?