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...DIED. MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK, 106, partner-in-power of former Chinese nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek; in New York City. Madame Chiang and her husband were TIME's Man and Wife of the Year for 1937. (See Eulogy...
...promised China would reimburse the entire expenditure, presumably from U.S. loan funds sitting in the Nationalist regime's American bank accounts. "If Wendell could be elected, then he and I would rule the world," she went on, according to Cowles...
Somewhere in Ireland last week, the Irish Republican Army got rid of a cache of weapons as international inspectors looked on. The move was meant to impress pro-British unionists in Northern Ireland and revive their appetite for sharing power with Irish nationalists, as the province heads toward November elections. British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, flew into Belfast for the occasion. But this careful choreography was replaced with chaos after the I.R.A., apparently to avoid the appearance of surrender, allowed the inspectors to release only the barest facts about the disposal and nothing...
...victims, three additional boatloads of arrivals from Africa were intercepted last week near Lampedusa. - By Jeff Israely A Turn to the Right switzerland The nationalist Swiss People's Party won about 27% of the vote in the country's general elections, leading it to ask for a second seat in the seven-member federal cabinet, to be chosen on Dec. 10. The anti-immigration party's gains came in Switzerland's French- and Italian-speaking cantons and at the expense of center-right parties. Coughing Up for Iraq SPAIN Having pledged $20 billion toward reconstruction in Iraq...
...market and raising the living standards of its people, today that role has been usurped on the mainland by the Chinese Communist Party. The tension across the Taiwan Strait remains high, but its terms have changed. Today, Beijing's claim to Taiwan is an expression of the nationalist mantle adopted by a Communist Party serving as the authoritarian steward of a booming capitalist economy, while the Taiwanese electorate - having attained a democratic voice over their own destiny in the wake of Chiang's passing - demur, increasingly eschewing "One China" in favor of an independence-minded ethnic-Taiwanese nationalism. Madame Chiang...