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...handy with a slingshot. Throughout the week, the Chinese dominated the weight lifting, a Bulgarian and Soviet preserve, occasionally spicing the entertainment with wonderful backflips. From the top stand, Gold Medal Featherweight Chen WeiQuiang reached down and vigorously pumped the hand of Bronze Medalist Tsai Wen-Yee of Chinese Taipei, or Taiwan. "We are all Chinese" was the translation for both...
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...issue between the U.S. and China for 35 years, and will likely remain so. However, now that Reagan has acknowledged Peking's primacy, and no longer calls Taiwan the Republic of China, the diplomatic wrangling is mainly over matters of nuance. Before he left Washington, Reagan assured the Taipei regime that he would not abridge the Taiwan Relations Act, passed after diplomatic ties were severed. The U.S. had agreed to reduce weapons sales to Taiwan under the act, yet in the last fiscal year such sales increased 35%, to $783 million, before falling back to about $735 million...
Instead, the three men muscled past passengers standing in the aisle and, surrounding Aquino, moved him toward the exit jetway. When reporters, who had accompanied Aquino on the journey from Taipei, tried to follow, they were halted at the door by two men in white uniforms. By then Aquino was already outside on the metal platform at the top of the stairs leading to the tarmac. He was surrounded by at least five uniformed men. Reporters tried to open the door to follow, but were rebuffed by the guards, one of whom reached back and shoved a television cameraman, forcing...
During a four-hour conversation that began in Taipei and continued aboard the flight to Manila, where he met his death, Benigno Aquino discussed his hopes and fears with TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton. Excerpts...