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...will China's new moderate president cope with this historical revisionism? "Jiang will try to hold the line," says TIME's Asia expert Oscar Chiang. "If he fully reinstates Zhao, it would be a refutation of Deng Xiaoping, and the party hard-liners won't allow that." One compromise would be to rehabilitate Zhao while maintaining that the protests constituted a "counter-revolutionary rebellion" that needed to be crushed. But as Chiang points out, even the slightest nod to Zhao would be a sign of changing times in Beijing...
HONG KONG: TIME Asia expert Oscar Chiang reports that the threat of violence on the night of the Hong Kong handover must be taken very seriously as the turf battles between free-speech and pro-China advocates intensify. A leading Hong Kong Democrat warned Wednesday that a planned free-speech protest in Victoria Park on the night of the handover could turn violent if China resorts to such ''dirty tricks'' as instead granting the permit for the space to the suddenly-interested pro-China Hong Kong Federation of Women. Hong Kong Democrats, says Chiang, see that they are about...
...suppress the protests, the Nationalist Government leader, Chiang Kai-shek, imposed martial law on the island and sent troops from mainland China. As the troops moved from north to south on the island, they killed roughly 20,000 people indiscriminately...
...father, C.Y. Tung, flamboyant founder of the Orient Overseas shipping empire, cultivated close relations with Chiang Kai-shek after Chiang's Nationalists fled the mainland for Taiwan. C.Y.'s Hong Kong-registered fleet became a valuable icon of "free China's" economic dynamism. By the time C.Y. died in 1982, however, the company was on the verge of collapse, with 24 tankers on order at a time when a global oversupply of vessels had sent shipping rates plummeting. It fell to C.H., the eldest son, to announce in August 1985 that the company could not repay $2.68 billion in debt...
...Christopher P. Herzog, Luba A. Kobrinsky, James A. Parson and Nicholas R. Szumski from Eliot House; Katherine L. Bertone from Kirkland House; William W. BurkeWhite, Michael E. Ginsberg, Amy Ozols, Dana A. Remus, Sapna Sadarangani, Jiri Vanicek and Matthew J. Waterbury from Leverett House; Charlene S. Ahn, David W. Chiang, Willow D. Crystal, Ivan Chun Kit Ho and Joyelle H. McSweeney from Lowell House; Brent R. Doran and Phanwadee Khananusapku from Pforzheimer House; Joung W. Hwang, Velin Y. Mezinev and Matthew C. Stephenson from Quincy House; Freeman, Adam B. Kirsch and Carlton F. Larson from Winthrop House