Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chiang Kai-Shek memorial occupies several city blocks of space in the center of Taipei. Only a short walk from the presidential palace from which Chiang ran the nationalist Chinese government, it is easily the most striking feature of the city which many still hold to be the legitimate capital of all China...
...Taipei, Taiwan...
...drawn into a debate over specific diplomatic options in the Middle East. He has decried the Carter Administration's "sellout" of Taiwan and hinted he might set up an official U.S. presence there, but he has carefully avoided saying he would re-establish full diplomatic relations with Taipei...
...government heeded the second demand--but only partially. It agreed to hold elections in December 1978 to fill 59 of the assembly's more than 1400 seats and allowed just two weeks for campaigning. Lu ran as an independent from her hometown of Taoyuan, an electronics center west of Taipei. During her short campaign, she advocated three rights for her fellow native Taiwanese: the right to know, the right to free speech, and the right to have a voice in their future...