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...tactics, meanwhile, became ever more brutal. One Thai government informant was buried alive, another drawn and quartered on the main street of Ban Hin Taek. In 1980 the American wife of DEA Agent Michael Powers was gunned down on a street in the northern city of Chiang Mai. Bangkok offered a $25,000 reward for the warlord's head. When a group of Thai paramilitary troops set off to capture Khun Sa and cop the reward, they were ambushed by Shan mercenaries. The open clash on Thai soil enraged Bangkok, already under mounting pressure from both...
...part." The rallying cry that stirred him and his compatriots was "Resist the United States and aid Korea; Protect your home and defend your country." "After half a century we finally had peace," he says of post-revolutionary China, and they felt threatened by U.S. connections with the hated Chiang...
...calculated to convince the Reagan Administration that there is no need to sell advanced jet fighters to Taiwan, an issue so serious to the Chinese that they have warned that it would disrupt relations with Washington. Finally, China may have made its offer because of the failing health of Chiang Ching-kuo, 71, President of the Republic of China. Says Kenneth Lieberthal, a China expert at Swarthmore College: "Peking is concerned that after Chiang goes, there's no one of prestige and power on the island who could make such a move toward reunification...
Chen's death aroused congressional concern that the repressive government of President Chiang Ching-kuo maintains a web of spies, especially on campuses, to keep an eye on the 500,000 Taiwanese living in the U.S. At a hearing last week, a House foreign affairs subcommittee heard testimony that Taiwanese headed for the U.S. are warned not to speak out against the Chiang government. Most obey, aware of the ubiquitous informers. Said Iowa Republican Jim Leach: "Without question, agents of the Taiwan government have engaged in harassment, intimidation and monitoring of U.S. residents." He called on the U.S. Government...
DIED. Wang Shih-chieh, 90, Nationalist Chinese lawyer, scholar and leading diplomat, who as Foreign Minister from 1945 to 1948 participated in the peace talks between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung; in Taipei...