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hear Cheng APPEALS on behalf of Taiwan architect Tzu Tsaicheng will be considered before Home Secretary Robert Carr decides whether sign an order for his extradition to America, was disclosed yesterday.

The Law Lords ruled by a 3-2 majority on Monday that Cheng must be extradited.

He is wanted in America for complicity • in the attempted assassination of Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kal-shek's son.

Lord Brockway said the Home But yesterday Labour Office had told him 'that a decision will not be reached in the case of Mr Cheng before my appeal and that of Members of Parliament has been considered'. Brockway ... Contacted Home Office.

Lord Brockway belleved that Cheng should be given the opportunity to go to another country rather than to America.

said he had won a precedent for such action many years ago in the case of a Spanish deserter from the Spanish navy. Office spokesman said: 'Lord Brockway has been in touch with us.

A Press Association diplomatic correspondent writes: 'It is understood that the Home Secretary Will, before signing the order for Mr Cheng's surrender, spend several weeks looking at all representations made on his behalf.

All trade union branches and members of the labour movement must demand Cheng be given asylum in Britain. Resolutions and letters should be sent to the Home Office, Whitehall, London, S.W.1. • See tomorrow's Workers Press centre pages for a background story on the Cheng case. THE NORTHERN Ireland Assembly Bill was given a second reading in