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...wonders of the East! The household goddesses that gaze down from every other wall and stall in Chiang Mai and Mandalay are the very picture of mysterious beauty. Their girlish tresses are dark and lustrous, their complexions delicately olive, their looks a spicy blend of innocence and experience. And the names of these exotic sirens are . . . Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Beals. From the go-slow huts of socialist Burma to the go-go bars of socializing Bangkok, the hands-down pinups of Southeast Asia are the Yale flashdancer with exactly two movies to her credit and the pouting young starlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrities Who Travel Well | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

Others, however, believe that Taiwan's President Chiang Ching Kuo authorized the contact because of a growing realization that the island republic can no longer ignore the Communist government in Peking. Says Peter Harris, of the University of Hong Kong's political science department: "Taiwan did this because it had to, not because it was willing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy Flying the Friendly Skies | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

REPORTER- RESEARCHERS: Rosemary Byrnes, Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Brigid O' Hara- Forster, Victoria Sales (Department Heads); Audrey Ball, Peggy T. Berman, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Elaine Dutka, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., Bernard Baumohl, David Bjerklie, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Valenice Castronovo, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Andrea Dorfman, Helen Sen Doyle, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John Edward Gallagher, Nancy R. Gibbs, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Masthead May 12, 1986 Vol. 127 No. 19 | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...reigning nor the most dictatorial leader in the region. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, whose autocratic skills are legendary, has dominated his city-state for 27 years; Indonesia's ; President Suharto has been unchallenged for 18 years. But both of those men, as well as Taiwan's Chiang Ching-kuo, have matched their severity with an ability to provide a rising standard of living for an ever increasing number of citizens. Says Whiting: "Many of us are impressed with Marcos' political acumen but feel that some of his economic policies are questionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Test for Democracy | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Posing as Benjamin Franklin, Vincent W. Chiang '88, also of Eliot House, decided to go fly a kite. "I liberated it from a tree, and now I'm trying to set it free again," Chiang said...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: 500 Defy Storm, Revel By The River | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

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