Word: formosae
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...Prime Minister is cast in a very different mold. The son of a wealthy lumber dealer, he served as a naval paymaster in The Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) and Formosa (now Taiwan) during World War II. For a few years after the war he was so embittered that he insisted on always wearing a black tie, since "every Japanese should be in mourning." But in the early '60s, Nakasone was deeply impressed by the political style of the late Robert F Kennedy, from whom he picked up the very un-Japanese habit of shaking hands with everyone...
...back as 1951, for example, when the French were fighting in Viet Nam, he foresaw nothing but swamps. "I'm convinced that no military victory is possible in that kind of theater," he noted. In 1955 members of his Cabinet predicted imminent war with Red China in the Formosa Strait. Ike knew better: "I have so often been through these periods of strain that I have become accustomed to the fact that most of the calamities that we anticipate really never occur...
...with the nation (a moral authority never even approximately regained by his successors), while actively managing his presidency. Even those garbled answers at press conferences, Greenstein thinks, were a stratagem meant to conceal, soothe and deflect. Once, when Hagerty advised Ike to refuse to answer any questions about the Formosa Straits, the situation being especially tricky then, the President replied: "Don't worry, Jim. If that question comes up, I'll just confuse them...
...leader of the feminist movement in Taiwan, left the Law School for her homeland in 1978, and became an editor of Formosa in August...
...eight defendants worked for Formosa Magazine, a publication banned last year opposed to the ruling government...