Word: kais
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...injera, a large piece of flat bread made from tef, a grain unique to the region. Injera may look like foam rubber, but its slightly sour taste is the perfect complement to spicy meat and vegetable dishes. Use chunks of injera to scoop up lamb and chicken cooked in kai wat, a fiery red sauce, or alicha wat, a milder yellow sauce. Wash it all down with a bottle of the local St. George beer-for less than $10 per person. Closed Mondays...
...ANNOUNCED. The permanent burial of CHIANG KAI-SHEK, former Kuomintang leader and Taiwan's first President; in Taipei. Chiang's body will be transferred from the temporary grave where it has lain since his death in 1975 to a permanent site in a military cemetery outside Taipei in early 2005. Interred alongside him will be his son and presidential successor CHIANG CHING-KUO, who died in 1988. Both men had asked to be buried in mainland China if the Nationalists ever wrested control of the country from the Communist Party...
...Down in Yunlin, however, few people wonder why the KMT's emperor has no clothes. Typical of rural Taiwan, the county is populated almost entirely by native-Taiwanese farmers, whose ancestors moved to the island from mainland China centuries before Chiang Kai-shek followed with his retreating KMT 55 years ago. For decades they supported the KMT, then Taiwan's only party, which co-opted local ?lites and controlled loans to farmers to win loyalty. Now that's changing. Locals worry that the KMT's desire for closer ties with the mainland will mean a flood of cheap imported produce...
...Concerto in A Minor op. 16 and Beethoven’s Symphonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur op. 55, “Eroica.” Yuan’s recent performances include a solo performance and a regular-season performance with the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra in the Chaing-Kai Shek Music Hall as part of the Young Artist Series. Conducted by Alexander Misono. Tickets $8 regular, $6 students and seniors. 8 p.m. Paine Hall...
...Communist forces led by Mao Zedong defeat Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, driving him and more than a million followers to Taiwan. Chiang sets up a government-in-exile and vows to "recover the mainland...