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...diplomatic move by the United States dashed the hopes of opposition candidates like Lu to gain seats in the assembly. On Dec. 16, 1978, halfway through the campaign, President Carter announced the opening of diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. The KMT immediately called off the election, claiming the U.S.-Chinese move had precipitated a national emergency and uncertainty about the future. Taiwan remained, as it had been for 30 years, "effectively a one-party state," as a State Department official called it at a hearing before the House International Relations Committee in June...
...several months after the government closed the electoral process to her, Lu continued her opposition activities underground. In August 1979, however, she became a vice president and editor of a new opposition publication, Formosa Magazine. Run by members of the opposition, Formosa Magazine grew increasingly vocal in calling for governmental and social reforms...
What happened after the demonstration was, as Arrigo predicted, not pleasant. Less than 24 hours after the crowds dispersed, police started arresting more than 100 opposition activists, including Lu. The government also 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...
...Lu met with her brother and sister, who asked her if the authorities had treated her badly. Lu responded with a faint smile and said they had not, Gerrit van Derwees, U.S. coordinator for the ICDHRT, said earlier this week after talking with lawyers for the dissidents. As Lu met with her siblings, another prisoner, Lin Yi-hsiung, a lawyer and legal adviser to Formosa Magazine, told his mother that he had signed a confession involuntarily. Lin's mother later called a friend in Japan to describe her son's condition. Two hours after she made the call...
...hope that the KMT authorities and the Taiwanese majority could work together in the exercise of democratic rights which many believe are essential to the future freedom and independence of Taiwan." Instead, Leach continued, "hardline elements among the ruling group have increasingly come to prevail." As a result, Lu and her fellow oppostion leaders remain in jail, victims of a system they have tried to change...