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Perspectives.
"I love free speech." U.S. President George W. Bush, during his address to the Australian Parliament, responding to a heckler who shouted "We are not a sheriff!"
"She was part of an era I don't want to remember. Taiwan was not a democracy then." Taipei salesman Mark Hwang, on the death of 105-year- old Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the nationalist leader whose party controlled Taiwan for five decades, from 1949 to 2000
"Wait, I think Sting is having his first piece of brie." U.S. Congressman Anthony Weiner, making fun of the celebrity scene on the Concorde as it made its final transatlantic voyage last Friday. Although the supersonic jet certainly was packed with superstars, Sting wasn't actually on the flight.
"[Name deleted] is planning 'an accident' in my car, brake failure and serious head injury in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry." Excerpt from a 1996 letter from Princess Diana to her butler Paul Burrell. The letter, quoted in Burrell's forthcoming book, "A Royal Duty," has reignited conspiracy theories about her death. The name was deleted for legal reasons.
"With a beer and some beetles and a few crickets, they're actually quite good." ...
- I was in San Francisco at the invitation of two universities when I learned...
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire November 7, 2005 700+ words
...predict back then that the communist regime of Mao Tze-tung would later take over China and the Kuomintang government led by Chiang Kai-shek would be banished to Taiwan? Such unexpected develop ments eventually led to the foundation of the People's Republic...
- Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall must go: Chen.
- Newspaper article from: China Post February 27, 2007 700+ words
...Shui-bian demanded yesterday that the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, a Taipei tourist...Incident of 1947, President Chen named Chiang Kai-shek the chief culprit of the bloody...today. All evidence shows Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who ordered the dispatch of...
- La vieja araña de la China.(Mei-ling, Madame Chiang Kai-shek)(Biografía)
- Magazine article from: Proceso Hiriart, Hugo November 30, 2003 700+ words
...telaraa, cerr al fin los ojos madame Chiang Kai-shek. Sobrevivi a su tiempo, como...China, y la menor, Mei-ling, cas con Chiang Kai-shek. Una, dicen, amaba el dinero...varias veces ministro de Hacienda con Chiang Kai-shek). El dominio del ingls fue vital...
- Is Chiang Kai-shek all that bad?
- Newspaper article from: China Post March 12, 2007 700+ words
...Shui-bian to denounce Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as the chief culprit of the bloody...authorities. In their ongoing war on Chiang Kai-shek, who died as president in Taipei...historians, they are trying to describe Chiang Kai-shek as the source of all evils that...
- Should Chiang Kai-shek be so hated?
- Newspaper article from: China Post October 17, 2006 700+ words
...After the government renamed Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek international airport, a private...monitor called for a change of name for the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall to remove the remnants...make it very clear. We don't love Chiang Kai-shek. In fact, we detest him for...
- John Chiang sues three for libeling late President Chiang Kai-shek.
- Newspaper article from: China Post February 24, 2006 700+ words
...Incident for libeling his grandfather Chiang Kai-shek, while Taiwan Society North has...Memorial Foundation, falsely accuses Chiang Kai-shek as the "chief culprit" for the...people were killed by government troops Chiang Kai-shek sent to Taiwan from China for...
- Madame Chiang Kai-shek buried ... for now.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 30, 2003 700+ words
...France Presse) The remains of Madame Chiang Kai-shek were moved Thursday to a family...widow of Taiwan's military strongman Chiang Kai-shek, once the most powerful woman...following a civil war with Communist forces. Chiang Kai-shek died in 1975 and is presently...
- Chiang Kai-Shek's Secret Past: The Memoir of His Second Wife, Ch'en...
- Magazine article from: The Historian Maloney, Joan M. June 22, 1994 700+ words
...purported memoir of the second Madame Chiang Kai-shek. The second outlines the obstacles...it sheds on Chiang's personality. Chiang Kai-shek's predilections to cunning opportunism...suppression of materials deemed unfavorable to Chiang Kai-shek - most notably from the White...
- Madame Chiang Kai-shek dies at the age of 106.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 24, 2003 700+ words
...The widow of Taiwan military strongman Chiang Kai-shek died at her home in the New York...Soong Mayling married military strongman Chiang Kai-shek in 1927 and her husband built...communist forces led by Mao Zedong. Madame Chiang Kai-shek never saw her sister Qingling...
- Taiwan row over Chiang Kai-Shek's remains.
- Newspaper article from: BBC Monitoring International Reports February 27, 2007 700+ words
...handle the remains of the late President Chiang Kai-shek if his descendants refuse to have...where they want to inter the remains of Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo...military honour guards to protect the Chiang Kai-shek mausoleum. Cheng said Chiang...
Source: HighBeam Research, Perspectives.