Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seattle, Wash., and Japan which attempts to publicize the plight of political dissidents in Taiwan. With the increase in circulation, however, came an increase in attacks, both verbal and physical, against the publication from enraged private citizens. Opposition members suspect that Taiwan's secret police agencies, the Taiwan Garrison Command and the Investigation Bureau, sanctioned the abuses...
...lawyers, van Derwees said. Among the restrictions: they will have only three days to examine evidence collected by the government and will be allowed only to hand copy those materials; they will be permitted to meet with the defendants for only 40 minutes to discuss strategy, and the Taiwan Garrison Command, a secret police agency, will record those meetings; and they will not be able to cross-examine prosecution witnesses...
With MacArthur and the doomed garrison on Corregidor was MacArthur's old friend Manuel Quezon, 63, the first President of the Philippines. Quezon, suffering from tuberculosis, wanted a ship to evacuate him, but MacArthur said it was too risky. The U.S. War Department also wanted Quezon evacuated, but MacArthur said it could not be done...
...Philippine armed forces. On Feb. 19, MacArthur was notified that the funds had been transferred. The very next day Quezon was put aboard a U.S. submarine and taken to safety. (He died in the U.S. in 1944.) MacArthur himself was ordered to leave Corregidor soon afterward. The garrison,, he left behind fought on until it was overrun...
Among Soviet garrison troops, morale appeared to be high. "We have everything here we could possibly need," a swarthy, French-speaking 2nd lieutenant from Uzbekistan cheerily assured TIME Correspondent David DeVoss, outside his billet. His men were all delighted to be in Afghanistan, he said, mostly because of the perks. "This is a poor country so the only thing we purchase locally is fruit," he said with a smile. "We've brought everything else from the Soviet Union-in our cook tents it's just like eating at home." Best of all, he said, was the special combat...