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...charged with attempting to smuggle $14,000 worth of baby eels from the mainland for the purpose of financing seditious activities. Huang denied being an eel trafficker, and convincingly argued that his only goal as Formosa 's publisher was to build a legitimate opposition party in Taiwan whose function would be to "spur the government to improve...
...publication became the voice for many of the Taiwanese who sought greater influence in their own government, Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa) told the House of Representatives on Dec. 20, 1979. "The magazine became a focal point for opposition points of view and its organizational structure came to function almost as a pseudo-political party. It was critical of one-party rule on the island and urged greater opportunity for political freedom for the native-born Taiwanese, who constitute 85 per cent of the population," Leach said...
Epps said student groups should pay for any activities they sponsor. "It was my understanding it was a function to be held at 33 Dunster Street, not sponsored by 33 Dunster Street," he added...
Precisely how the commission is to function remained unclear. Waldheim said that the panel would establish its own procedures and set its own agenda. Syria's Daoudy told TIME that "this is not an investigation in the juridical sense; not a grand jury, much less a court...
...time fantasizing ways to get him into hot water. Some ways are slightly extreme: rat poison in the coffee Tomlin is required to fetch him, for example. But the movie is played for laughs, and in the end stenovirtue triumphs when the underlings reorganize the office to make it function better bossless. Setting aside what Fonda calls "egos and insecurities," the three actresses are getting along famously. Says Parton, who is taking her first fling at the flicks: "I always heard that making movies was hard. But if all of them are like this, I'm going to love...