Word: chen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chen Chen, 31, life in the U.S. was splendid. He had just signed a new three-year contract to teach statistics at Carnegie-Mellon University. He and his Taiwanese wife Su-jen, both certified "permanent residents," owned their Pittsburgh house and doted on their year-old son Eric. In May, as the school year ended, Chen and his family flew home to Taiwan for their first visit since he came to the U.S. in 1975. Six weeks into that sentimental journey, Wen-chen Chen was picked up for interrogation by Taiwanese security police and questioned for 13 hours about...
...Taiwan government suggests that Chen committed suicide. Colleagues and compatriots in the U.S. suspect that he was killed by the government-and fear they might be next. Says Lu Wang, 40, a data-processing analyst in New York City: "The Chen case has hit us like a tornado. In every heart there is fear. The case is not an isolated instance...
...visit in another light. Taipei contends that China is using its ties with the U.S. only to conquer short-term difficulties and that the two countries are bound to turn hostile again. And if Washington sells Peking any arms, the Taiwanese warn, beware the long-range consequences. C.J. Chen, director of the North American affairs section of the foreign ministry in Taipei, put it succinctly by quoting a Chinese proverb: " 'If you feed a tiger, sooner or later it will eat you as well...
...transactions for profit. At the Peace Café, Benefit-the-People Wang had quick eyes for American cigarettes, Inca-bloc watches and hard currencies. He and his friends drank orange soda mixed with beer and discussed which foreign visitor might like to get it on with Golden Thunder Chen...
...campaign against Hua also seemed to presage a stepped-up purge of other party officials considered by Deng's forces to be disloyal or inept. Last week every major newspaper in China frontpaged a toughly worded statement by Vice Chairman Chen Yun that was cited by Secretary-General Hu Yaobang. It warned that changing the bad "work style" of some leaders was a "matter of life and death for our party...