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...many New Yorkers, Governor Hugh Carey looked a little undemocratic last week. Philip J. D'Arrigo, a Westchester County dentist, paid $48,000 last year for an acre of land adjacent to Carey's summer home on Shelter Island at the end of Long Island. Said D'Arrigo, 47: "I hope to hang up my drill in 15 years, live out there and go fishing." But when the dentist began constructing his 2½-story dream house 165 ft. away from Carey's, the state police certified that it posed a security hazard to the Governor...
...shouting threats like "Beat them to death!" ("P'a hou yin hsi!" in the Chinese Min-nan dialect). The rioters even looted a police station and injured the staff there. The police, on the other hand, were forbidden to fight back. Unlike the impression conveyed in quotes by Linda Arrigo, no demonstrators were hurt...
After the police retreated, the demonstrators and many onlookers returned to the Formosa office, where, Arrigo continued, "things were very peaceful: we had a large crowd around us, and we continued to sing Taiwan folk songs. There were many strong statements: 'We want human rights. We want democracy. We want an end to dictatorial government and martial...
...about 10 p.m., as the organizers began trying to disperse the rally, "the riot police trucks arrived and smashed into the crowd," Arrigo said. In his report to the House, Rep. Leach said confrontations between government authorities and demonstrators continued until early morning. "What we saw, I think, was a tremendous anger at the authorities, perhaps more than I would have expected. We saw a tremendous rise in 'Taiwan consciousness' and a real cry against martial law," Arrigo said. "I would say that it was a major step forward in strengthening the identity of the Taiwan people, but whatever will...
What happened after the demonstration was, as Arrigo predicted, not pleasant. Less than 24 hours after the crowds dispersed, police started arresting more than 100 opposition activists, including Lu. The government also deported Arrigo and closed down Formosa Magazine. It had published only four issues." We thought we could resist arrests. We thought the Nationalists would have avoided this to seek further consensus and gain mass support. But we were wrong," she told the Christian Science Monitor shortly after leaving Taiwan. Leach described the government's reaction as "the largest mass arrest of opposition forces in Taiwan's recent political...