Word: hsu
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MARGARET K. HSU ’08 of Weston, Mass. and Lowell House Director of Staff Development...
...prevent the Democratic Progressives and other Tangwai (literally "outside the party") candidates from campaigning in the election. K.M.T. and D.P.P. politicians alike favored free enterprise and Western ties, and both railed against pollution and corruption. The final days on the hustings, however, were overshadowed by the attempts of Hsu Hsin-liang, 48, a Taiwanese dissident in exile in the U.S., to return to Taiwan...
...D.P.P. sent its supporters to Chiang Kai-shek International Airport on the day Hsu was due to return for what was promised would be a peaceful demonstration. But the scene turned violent after 2,000 marchers on their way to the airport were stopped by a police roadblock. Demonstrators, suspected by some of being government provocateurs, began throwing rocks, and police responded with tear gas and water cannons. By the time the fracas was broken up, 31 police vehicles had been overturned...
...Hsu had never managed to get on the plane in Tokyo. Taipei had warned all Taiwan-bound airlines not to accept any passenger without proper entry documents. Two days later he used a false name to get on a flight from Manila, but Taipei had been tipped off, and he was forced to return on the same plane...
Even many D.P.P. members were dismayed by the timing of Hsu's attempted return, which was seen as a quixotic effort to imitate the tragic return from exile of Benigno Aquino Jr. to the Philippines in 1983. "If he really had our interests instead of his personal interests at heart," said a prominent D.P.P. leader, "he wouldn't be trying to come back...