Beijing November 6. According to UPI, "China released four Tibetans including one of its most famous dissident monks from prison Sunday after all had shown what the Chinese government termed "fine behavior" during their incarceration. 'Four criminals in Tibet have been released on parole or as a result of commuted sentence by the Chinese judicial departments', the official Xinhua news agency said. The four included two monks, a farmer and a businesswoman who were all jailed for 'counter-revolutionary' statements concerning Chinese rule over the remote Himalayan region. The most famous was Yulo Dawa Tsering, 65, a senior monk and university lecturer who was detained on Dec. 16, 1987 and sentenced some 13 months later to 10 years imprisonment for remarks he reportedly made to two foreign visitors. He apparently suggested that journalists should be permitted to enter Tibet and that Tibet's god-king in exile, the Dalai Lama should not return until 'everything has been changed'. Yulo's parole cuts three years off

his sentence. The second monk, 67 year-old Thupten Namdrol, was sentenced to nine years in jail at the same time as Yulo for the identical crime of trying to split the nation. The details of his offense are not known, but appear to revolve around some letters which 'incited discord and national dimemberment'. 'He was allowed to be parolled by the court for his fine show of obeying prison management and regulations while serving his sentence', the news agency said. The third Tibetan, Tsewang Palden, 62, was a carpenter detained on Dec. 6, 1991 while visiting relatives in central Tibet. He too was convicted of trying to split the country and his parole knocks two years off his five-year sentence. Chundag, a 38-year-old Tibetan businesswoman living in Lhasa, was released unconditionally, after the courts commuted her seven-year sentence by two-and-a-half years for good behavior, the news agency said. Her offense under the wide-ranging crime of trying to split the country is not known. (EuroTibet News N·4)