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TAIWAN'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN March will be the first time in Chinese history that a leader will be elected directly by the people. This will bring an end to an era of dictatorship. Taipei officially agrees that Taiwanese and Chinese have shared a common heritage for the past 5,000 years. However, this does not mean that Taiwan wants to be part of the communist regime that currently rules the People's Republic of China. The world will watch closely as tension along the Taiwan Strait continues to build. JUNG T. TSAI Elizabeth, New Jersey...
...addition, several members of the council expressed reservations about accepting the money at all because PepsiCo. has investments in Burma, a country governed by a brutal military dictatorship...
Down in the cesspool of Port-au-Prince, it does not feel that way. A brutal dictatorship, a repressive army and organized political violence have been banished, but crime and mob rule are filling the vacuum of authority. Five thousand ill-trained, ill-equipped and immature policemen must control a desperate population of 7 million, propped up by a rapidly dwindling U.N. force. The country has acquired the image but not the substance of democracy: it has a duly elected President and parliament but a completely dysfunctional government. The economy is still at ground zero: no jobs, no investment...
...hard to see how a Green Bay Packers T shirt could interfere with the stocking of Pop-Tarts or how a union sticker would slow the tightening of a tractor's axle. When employers are free to make arbitrary and humiliating restrictions, we're saying democracy ends, and dictatorship begins, at the factory gate...
...before continuing--". and talk about teamwork. If you think you should be Speaker of the House, then run for Speaker. I'm here to tell you this is a team decision." The freshmen got the message. "Yesterday it was a democracy," said one. "This morning we were in a dictatorship...