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Last week, 38 years later, military rule was finally lifted. It was abolished by Chiang Ching-kuo, who succeeded his father as leader of Taiwan in 1975. According to a Western observer in Taipei, the ailing, 77-year-old Chiang "apparently realizes his time is short and wants to assure Taiwan's future political stability...
...Reagan Administration quickly applauded the move, urging "continued reform and the development of democratic institutions and processes." Taipei echoed Washington's optimism. Predicted Government Spokesman Shaw Yu-ming: "We will achieve full democracy by the year...
...constitution and its guarantees of freedoms of speech, assembly, belief and movement. As evidence, it notes that the new law will continue the current ban on travel and on any opposition to the KMT's claim of sovereignty over all of China. Says Frank Hsieh, a D.P.P. member and Taipei city councilman: "Our principle is that when martial law is abolished, we should return to a full constitutional system...
...avoid disappointment a visitor should have realistic expectations about the restaurants in China today, most of which are below standards set in Hong Kong, Taipei and New York. Despite the country's ancient traditions of cuisine, most chefs now are out of practice when it comes to fine and careful cooking, and few dining-room staffs know how to serve in anything like first- class style. War, revolution, poverty and a Maoist regime that considered embellishment a manifestation of bourgeois decadence have taken their toll. "We lost the thread of our culinary tradition," says Hu Yulu, the retired chef...
...emphasize the ongoing tensions, Peking and Taipei differed sharply over what motivated the pilot, Wang Hsi-chueh, 57, to divert the plane to Canton. Wang told a press conference in Peking that he had been homesick and wanted to see his father and brothers. Officials in Taiwan, however, claimed that the defection of the $48,000-a-year pilot was the result of coercion and had been carefully planned. They pointed to the well-drilled precision with which Chinese army troops surrounded the jet when it landed at Canton and the presence of television cameras as evidence that Wang...