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...publication became the voice for many of the Taiwanese who sought greater influence in their own government, Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa) told the House of Representatives on Dec. 20, 1979. "The magazine became a focal point for opposition points of view and its organizational structure came to function almost as a pseudo-political party. It was critical of one-party rule on the island and urged greater opportunity for political freedom for the native-born Taiwanese, who constitute 85 per cent of the population," Leach said...
...about 10 p.m., as the organizers began trying to disperse the rally, "the riot police trucks arrived and smashed into the crowd," Arrigo said. In his report to the House, Rep. Leach said confrontations between government authorities and demonstrators continued until early morning. "What we saw, I think, was a tremendous anger at the authorities, perhaps more than I would have expected. We saw a tremendous rise in 'Taiwan consciousness' and a real cry against martial law," Arrigo said. "I would say that it was a major step forward in strengthening the identity of the Taiwan people, but whatever will...
...deported Arrigo and closed down Formosa Magazine. It had published only four issues." We thought we could resist arrests. We thought the Nationalists would have avoided this to seek further consensus and gain mass support. But we were wrong," she told the Christian Science Monitor shortly after leaving Taiwan. Leach described the government's reaction as "the largest mass arrest of opposition forces in Taiwan's recent political history...
After drinking with friends at a pub in Bradford - a West Yorkshire industrial town ten miles west of Leeds, where the Ripper had struck twice before - Sociology Student Barbara Leach, 20, went out for a stroll near the University of Bradford. After listening to the recording of the Ripper's threat, she had promised her worried parents that she would never go out alone at night. But this time, she took the chance. She never got home again. After she had been missing for 40 hours, her mutilated body, partly covered by an old piece of carpet, was found...
...Replied Leach wryly: "That is a unique and thoughtful approach, but I doubt whether it would be widely embraced." At several stops, Leach asked for a show of hands on whether the Federal Government should help the ailing Chrysler Corp. in its financial troubles. Insisted an insurance man in the town of Washington: "They should have the same right to go broke as I do." Nevertheless, the vote there was 18 to 10 in favor of a federal loan guarantee for Chrysler...