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...feminist literature and a telephone hotline for women with family problems. The government closed both facilities. When she returned to Taiwan in 1978 after graduating from law school, Lu rejoined the group of lawyers, government officials, businessmen, doctors, students and workers comprising the growing opposition to the ruling Kuomintang (KMT), Nationalist Chinese Party--the only legal political party in Taiwan. What brought the group together was a desire to protest the oppression they felt from the mainland Chinese who established their own "Free Chinese" state on the island after the Communist victory...
...small but vocal opposition group demanded that the government end its 30 years of martial law and hold national elections to replace the aging members of the rubber stamp National Assembly, still dominated by the KMT. The government heeded the second demand--but only partially. It agreed to hold elections in December 1978 to fill 59 of the assembly's more than 1400 seats and allowed just two weeks for campaigning. Lu ran as an independent from her hometown of Taoyuan, an electronics center west of Taipei. During her short campaign, she advocated three rights for her fellow native Taiwanese...
...return. In case he is not, Chiang, now 79, has already made provision for the transfer of power to his oldest son and political heir: Chiang Ching-kuo, 56, Taiwan's Defense Minister. Late last month, at the annual meeting of the party's Central Committee, 600 KMT delegates voted Chiang-and hence his successor-the right to appoint a special national security council with sweeping emergency powers. Such a council would act as a built-in power structure, waiting only for the day when either Chiang or Ching-kuo might decide to activate...