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...January 1979, China stopped its alternate-day shelling of the Taiwan-held offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu; located less than ten miles from the Fujian coast, the islands were long regarded as symbols of the ongoing civil war between the People's Republic and the Republic of China. Fujian authorities boast that they have built five docking shelters along the province's coast for fishermen from Taiwan and that they have helped some 1,000 of them who ran into bad weather or engine breakdowns. Meanwhile, Fujian officials call for tours and even investments by their "Taiwan...
...saying something new. But candid admissions of such practices by their predecessors are beginning to turn up in the history books. Remember Eisenhower's contorted syntax in press conferences? Jim Hagerty, Ike's press secretary, was worried about what the President might say about the 1955 Quemoy-Matsu crisis, but Ike reassured him: "Don't worry, Jim, if that question comes up, I'll just confuse them...
...sent it to London. I'm not sure they knew quite what to make of it." Thibaut de Saint Phalle, now a director of the Export-Import Bank, discovered that Chinese pirates were very adept at blowing up Japanese ships, and he went to the offshore island of Quemoy to recruit them for the Allied cause. On the island, he remembers, he found himself living "in 12th century splendor. The pirates had stolen some very fine old furniture...
...screen argument between the candidates was less than edifying at the time and now echoes with irony. A disproportionate amount of time was taken up by the tiny Nationalist Chinese islands of Quemoy and Matsu, some five miles off the mainland Chinese coast. Nixon argued that they should be defended by the U.S. against any Communist attack; Kennedy insisted that they should be defended only if assaulted in a clear prelude to an invasion of Taiwan, some 100 miles across the Formosa Strait. Also argued excessively was the issue of U.S. prestige. Kennedy contended that it had fallen dangerously throughout...
Perhaps the Republican Convention at Kansas City will change everything and turn Panama and Rhodesia into the Quemoy and Matsu of 1976. If not, you can shortly expect a loss of benignity from editorial writers, analysts and columnists, who, unlike the television cameras, need issues and not images on which to feed and ruminate. Tired of forever analyzing each candidate's appeal or parsing his pat answers, these critics will be talking instead about the campaign's lack of content...