Word: li
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foundation of Taiwan's economic success was laid in the late 1960s by Finance Minister K.T. Li. He pioneered the establishment of free-trade zones where foreign-owned factories can import raw materials and parts duty-free, assemble them into finished products and ship the products out as exports. Taiwan now has three such zones, each a kind of manufacturing compound. Together they will eventually employ some 90,000 Taiwanese workers in 150 enterprises. Foreign investors are also lured by cheap labor costs-one-third to one-fourth lower than in Japan-and velvet-glove treatment by the government...
Died. Achille Cardinal Liénart, 89, staunchly progressive bishop of the industrial diocese of Lille for four decades; in Lille. A champion of social reform in France long before he won a red hat in 1930, Cardinal Liénart was an active supporter of trade-unionism and a leader of the worker-priest movement that sent Catholic clergymen to live among French laborers. Undaunted by either the opposition of industrialists, who dubbed him "the Red Cardinal," or the Vatican's termination of the worker-priest experiment in 1954, he became a leading proponent of church decentralization during...
GESTATIONAL CHORIOCARCINOMA. Before chemotherapy, this cancer that originates in the placentas of pregnant women killed 90% of its victims within a year. Drs. Min Chiu Li of Nassau Hospital, Mineola, N.Y., and Roy Hertz of New York Medical College, Valhalla, N.Y., have used chemotherapy to apparently cure up to 90% of patients diagnosed within four months of the onset of the disease...
...impressed. All this wheeling and dealing just so poor li'l ole me can go to the polls on Election Day and vote for the best man money...
...seize power in 1971, after he came under criticism in the party for trying to gain permanent army control over civilian institutions. Lin "didn't believe that he could really succeed to the leadership," but "afraid that his designs had been exposed," he then had his son Lin Li-kno, deputy head of the air force's operations department, send a British-made Trident aircraft to Peitaiho, a resort town some 150 miles from Peking...