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...vote in the matter. And last week that elite group of electors arrived at the Hong Kong Convention Center in a procession of Rolls-Royces and Mercedes-Benz to cast their ballots for a winner anointed long before. Indeed, the deciding vote for shipping magnate Tung Chee-hwa may have been recorded in January, when China's President Jiang Zemin singled him out from a crowd of his peers for a handshake when he was in Beijing. The votes cast last week by the 400--themselves carefully screened by Beijing--were almost a formality. It may have been historic...
...students elected are Meredith Alexander, Michael I. Gordin and Chimene I. Keitner from Adams; Kyung-Hwa Rhee, Antonio Rodriguez, Jun S. Song, Hisayo M. Suzuki, and Kristen VanAmberg from Cabot; Peter S. Cahn, Bert I. Huang, and Mark Wu from Currier; Natan J. Leyva from Dudley; Bryan M. Hooks and Jessica E. Nord from Dunster; Gregory M. Ku, Joshua M. Sabloff, and Elizabeth A. Urban from Eliot; Thaddeus B. Kousser and Patrick I. Purdon from Kirkland; John D. Heller and Eugenia Lao from Leverett; Swaine L. Chen, Steven A. Engel, and Michael J. Puri from Lowell; Jill A. Corcoran, Anne...
...lasted more than six decades but also saw its dominion shrink from the world's most populous nation to a ( small island off the mainland of China. Shortly after 8 p.m. last Wednesday, programming on Taiwan's government-owned television and radio stations was suddenly interrupted. Premier Yu Kuo-hwa was shown addressing the central standing committee of the ruling Kuomintang (Nationalist Party). Speaking in somber, measured tones, he announced that President Chiang Ching-kuo, 77, son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had died of heart failure in Taipei, the capital. A few minutes later, Vice President Lee Teng...
...more moderate Kim Young Sam who last month scored the campaign's biggest coup. While declaring that "the call of history is to put a final end to military government," he won the support of several past military leaders, including former Army Chief of Staff Chung Sung Hwa...
...vacancy occurred. But Lee is a native Taiwanese who did not accompany Chiang's father, Chiang Kai-shek, when the Nationalists fled to Taiwan after the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949, and he has never made it to the innermost circle of the KMT. Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, 71, who does not suffer those handicaps, has had to take much of the heat for the Tenth Credit scandal. As governor of the Central Bank before becoming Premier, he was financial czar for 15 years...