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CFIA fellows Kai Falkman and Prem Singh, featured in this week's SNAPSHOTS, are two of the four senior diplomats visiting the University this year...
...Some Chinese have members of their direct families living in Taiwan. How anybody can deny them the right to see their dear ones, I don't understand," Han said. When the communists under Mao Zedong gained control of China in 1949, the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-Shek took refuge on the nearby island of Taiwan...
...provinces should be determined by market forces rather than by state decree, prices surged by as much as 50%. The rise triggered panic buying and brought back memories among older citizens of the hyperinflation that ravaged China in 1949 during the final months of the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek...
...well liked by Taiwan's 19.1 million people, his age and diabetic condition have stirred speculation about a successor. Under the constitution, Vice President Lee Teng-hui, 62, would automatically succeed if a 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...
...Martin; the guest timekeeper, manipulating a tiny silver bell that might have come from King Farouk's dinner table, is Liberace. Pop Thrush Cyndi Lauper is "managing" Wendi Richter ("150 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal") as she attempts to regain her W.W.F. championship belt from zaftig Leilani Kai, managed by former longtime (28 years) women's champ, the Fabulous Moolah. And in the main event, teaming with Hulk Hogan against the preening Paul ("Mr. Wonderful") Orndorff and the kilted, malefic Rowdy Roddy Piper, is the Hulk's Rocky III co-star...