Word: taoyuan
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...still dominated by the KMT. The 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...
...Nationalist Chinese conceded that the plane was one of two that they bought from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in 1960. It had taken off on a "routine mission" from Formosa's Taoyuan airbase on the day it vanished, but the Nationalists revealed neither the plane's flight plan nor the pilot's identity. Peking, which last July had offered a reward of 8,000 ounces of gold (value $280,000) to any Nationalist pilot who would defect with his U-2 intact, boasted that this one had been "shot down" by an air force unit, but supplied...
...Show. In Taoyuan, Formosa, when Yang Shih-ming's bride failed to appear for her wedding, Yang turned to Bridesmaid Chiang Ming-yeh. asked her if she would like to be his wife, married her instead...
...month (TIME, Dec. 24), the ladies knew that discovery meant death. A word from the Chinese boatman would do it. The Misses Granner and Renninger crouched below decks for six days, listening, dozing, stretching, thinking about the unclassifiable noises that came from the sacking of the nearby town of Taoyuan. Twice hooves and boots clattered over-head in numbers, for the army had commandeered the junk as part of a pontoon bridge across the Yuan. On the sixth day the Communist-bandits left and last week the two indomitable spinsters sailed on into Changteh, praising their secretive boatman...