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DIED. ZHANG XUELIANG, 100, Chinese warlord; in Honolulu. In December 1936, in an event now known as the Xian Incident, he sent his troops to kidnap Chiang Kai-shek, releasing him two weeks later when Chiang promised to work with the communists to battle Japan. The promise resulted in a decade of cooperation that positioned the communists to conquer the entire Chinese mainland in 1949. Zhang spent the next 55 years under house arrest, mostly in Taiwan, but his reputation as a patriot grew. As democracy arrived in Taiwan in the early 1990s, he was given increasing freedom and began...
...composer and lyricist whose collaboration with Ray Evans produced such hits as Silver Bells and Que Sera Sera; in Los Angeles. During their 64-year partnership the duo received seven Academy Award nominations and won three. DIED. CHANG HSUEH-LIANG, 100, onetime Chinese warlord who kidnapped Nationalist leader Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on Dec. 12, 1936 in Xi'an, forcing him into an alliance with the communists against the invading Japanese; in Honolulu. Chang spent nearly four decades under house arrest in Taiwan (see eulogy). DIED. ANNE RIDLER, 89, fluent and gifted poet, editor and translator; in Oxford. In June...
...During a dinner at the Suan Bua resort on the outskirts of Chiang Mai, Thaksin sits surrounded by his Cabinet ministers who are taking a break from a two-day retreat where he is formally articulating his policies. Despite his tub-thumping election campaign he has not actually said what he stands for?aside from his vague blandishments about technology and the future. In his first few months in office he sent conflicting foreign-policy signals, telegraphing an isolationist message at an April conference in Bangkok where he said Thailand would reduce dependence on exports and look inward to solve...
...Thai vestment, and sits on a cushion on the soft teak floor under a pavilion next to a bubbling stream while young women in ornate sarongs parade past with plates of spicy chicken, sticky rice and boned freshwater fish. A famous oenophile, he sips an expensive Bordeaux, brought to Chiang Mai from his own cellars. His entourage, a collection of cronies and political allies for whom Thaksin has been criticized, is gathered around him at other low tables. For a putative reformist, he has surrounded himself with numerous politicians associated with corruption-tainted governments from the past. Suwit Khunkitti, Shucheep...
...Thaksin grew up not far from that hotel, in Sankampaeng, near Chiang Mai, the second of 10 siblings. His father, a Chinese merchant who tried his hand at jobs ranging from bus driving to running a movie theater, was a modest success who would eventually rise to serve in parliament. Thaksin has steadily propagated the myth that he grew up impoverished. His aunt, Chansom Shinawatra, 78, however, shrugs when asked about the Shinawatra family circumstances: "We did well." Well enough, according to some of Thaksin's childhood friends, for the strapping, big-eared boy to own the only bicycle...