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Chiang continued to pay lip service to the Generalissimo's dream of recovering the mainland. But as his own health began to deteriorate, the son began to relax the father's military grip. Last summer, at the President's behest, the state of martial law that had begun shortly before Chiang Kai- shek's arrival on Taiwan and lasted 38 years was ended. With that, the groundwork was laid for an era of political normality the island republic had never known...
...years of chaos that accompanied the rise of the Solidarity trade union and the national malaise brought on by martial law in 1981 have taken a severe toll on an economy that was already creaky. Living standards have fallen below their 1975 levels, with wages averaging less than $90 a month. Technologically, the country is so backward that many farmers still plant and harvest from horse-drawn carts, while many factories run on steam-powered . machinery from the last century. Even Lech Walesa, former leader of the now outlawed Solidarity, favors basic economic reforms. "The point is not to fight...
Throughout the 16-year history of Bangladesh, unrest and martial law have seemed to be an almost permanent part of political life. Since late October, President Hussain Mohammad Ershad has arrested some 2,000 opposition figures, including the women leaders of the two main opposition parties, for calling for his overthrow. Last week, unable to negotiate an end to the protests, Ershad completed the cycle by declaring a new state of emergency in his troubled country of 105 million people...
...hide under my bed," said the President. Perhaps hoping to give Beltran a sleepless night or two, she filed a libel suit against him. Besieged by leftist and rightist rebels as well as by a rumormongering press, Aquino last week explicitly raised the possibility of declaring martial law if needed "for the greater good of the country...
...shrinking Marine spy scandal; despite earlier claims, the military never produced evidence that Lonetree or other Marine guards allowed KGB agents inside the Moscow embassy. The Navy had earlier dropped similar accusations of espionage against Lonetree's fellow guard, Corporal Arnold Bracy. Two other Marines await courts-martial on lesser charges...