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...passed the bar exam as a National Taiwan University undergraduate and was moving into private practice as a lawyer. Through this phase of his career and the next?his emergence as a political figure following his stellar defense of the "Kaohsiung Eight" opposition group charged with plotting to overthrow the government, and his subsequent terms in office as a legislator and the mayor of Taipei?his approach remained basically the same: to out-prepare, out-study, out-argue and out-campaign his rival, whether that was opposing counsel or a KMT politician. His method was bluntly effective and essentially unchanged...
...Outside of the U.N.-mandated sanctions, the Bush administration is also under pressure to come up with some new ideas on two other aspects of Iraq policy: the "no-fly" zone and overthrowing Saddam. The Pentagon is increasingly concerned that the "no-fly" zone is an accident waiting to happen, because Iraqi air defense personnel are growing bolder and the law of averages suggests that the U.S. and Britain - the only two members of the original Gulf War alliance that still patrol the zone - will sooner or later lose a pilot. That against a backdrop of concern that...
...accuses the detained opposition politicians of stirring up the demonstrators, trying to provoke them into swarming the presidential palace. On Monday they came close to breaking through the outer perimeter of the palace. So she's arresting these people because she says they're trying to overthrow her government. But whether these arrests decrease or increase the danger of a coup is anybody's guess. Right now the streets of Manila are pretty deserted, and there's razor wire all around the palace. But the demonstrators have been chased back to Manila's shanty towns...
...What about the U.S. policy of intensifying efforts to overthrow Saddam...
...this talk of regime change has got to stop, and the bombing of Iraq to penalize it for this or that infraction has also got to stop. They want a more toned-down approach. There is some recognition in Washington now that the U.S. has lost the battle to overthrow Saddam. It may happen, but it can't be ordained. And with it has come the recognition that keeping Saddam in a box may be a useful end in itself, particularly if it can be done without alienating Arab opinion...