Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more or less voluntary exile in the U.S., he was returning home in hopes of resuming his opposition to the autocratic regime of President Ferdinand Marcos. But Aquino, 51, feared that he would be turned back or arrested-or worse. So, as his China Airlines Boeing 767 from Taipei approached Manila International Airport, he ducked into a washroom and slipped a bullet-proof vest under the same white safari suit he wore when he left three years earlier. "I'm O.K., I'm protected here," he said as he patted his torso. "But if they...
...three uniformed policemen stomped aboard, passengers heading for the exit were ordered back to their seats by the crew. One of the passengers was TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, who had just finished reporting a story in the Indonesian archipelago and then, by prearrangement, had detoured to Taipei to accompany Aquino on the final leg of his homecoming flight. As Burton recounted it in a file to TIME this Sunday...
Right on the button, at 8:20 p.m., the huge Lockheed L1011 jetliner swept out of the evening darkness and touched down at the Chiang Kai-shek International Airport near Taipei. Flight 801 from Tokyo was the first plane bearing the blue and white colors of Pan American World Airways to land in Taiwan since 1978; less than 24 hours after its 113 passengers had disembarked last Wednesday, it was at the center of a diplomatic row between the U.S. and China. In Peking, China's Assistant Foreign Minister summoned the U.S. chargé d'affaires and delivered...
China's objections to Pan Am's planned three flights a week to Taiwan are based on claims that the island remains a part of the mainland. Peking argues that any direct dealings with Taipei by the U.S., whether business, political or military, amount to infringement of China's national sovereignty...
...officials said that they were "disappointed" by the Chinese move, but they noted that the Government lacked the legal authority to force a U.S. carrier to cease operating a route unless it has broken U.S. law. For now, Pan Am plans to continue flights to both Peking and Taipei. The airline, however, may not be so unhappy if it is eventually barred from China; insiders say that Pan Am has in fact been losing money on its China service. By contrast, the Taiwan route is reckoned to be highly profitable...