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Though leaders of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party condemned that timetable as "too slow," they grudgingly hailed Chiang's move. Said Chu Kao-cheng, a Progressive Party lawmaker in the Legislative Yuan: "I can't deny that basic human rights will be better off than before." Last week 23 prisoners and political dissidents were released. Still, the Progressive Party, which claims to speak for the native Taiwanese, is not about to slow its push for greater Taiwanese participation in government. Chiang, however, is unlikely to accept demands that undercut the near monopoly on political power held by his ruling party...
...than Reagan. Pakistan blocked Afghan rebel leaders from traveling to the meeting from Pakistani base camps. Mujahedin Colonel Ghulam Wardak flew to Africa from Washington, where he is recovering from battle wounds. Nervous Thai authorities, according to a Lehrman aide, created "tremendous problems" before allowing Laotian Guerrilla Leader Pa Kao Her to fly to the conference from Bangkok. But South Africa, which supports Savimbi, allowed participants to fly from Johannesburg...
...this sense, success can be as difficult to handle as failure. "It can lead to complacency, which blunts the ability to perceive new opportunities," says John Kao, a psychiatrist who teaches at Harvard Business School. "The money tends to put you in a different peer group, creating a sense of isolation and the need to seek others who are equally successful. Some rich people feel only they can understand each other...
Then, disaster. Harry You, the senior cox, received word that academic problems would beach him. The only available replacement was Peter Kao, who hadn't been in an intercollegiate race in three years. The substitution brought additional pressure on Gordie Gardiner, the Crimson stroke and captain, who would now have to guide the boat without...
...known of Teng's early life or, for that matter, of his private life today. He is believed to be the son of a landlord. He was born in 1904 in Hsieh-hsing, a village near China's wartime capital of Chungking. His given name was Kan Tse-kao, which he changed to Teng Hsiao-p'ing (an underground alias that means Little Peace) when he joined the Communist Party...