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Shortly before dusk on April 23, three young agents from the U.S. Customs Service were about to hit the jackpot of their careers. Sitting in a car outside a warehouse in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, the men were looking for Huan ("Danny") Teng, 38, a Taiwanese believed to be one of America's kingpins of drug paraphernalia. They never found Teng, but what they discovered inside the building left them breathless. It was a vast, dungeon- like factory filled with machines for injecting, cooling and grinding plastic. Three Chinese workers in ragged garb glanced at their visitors just once...
...Greenpoint operation was the biggest crack-vial factory ever discovered. Only two months earlier, Customs agents had found several warehouses in New York City linked to Teng and his cronies that were stocked with some $28 million worth of paraphernalia, much of it hauled there from Seattle and Los Angeles. The stash was so vast -- 107 million vials, 1.9 million crack pipes, 178 million polyethylene bags for heroin -- that 25 Customs agents took three days just to count and load the items into eleven 50-ft.-long tractor trailers. "That was more paraphernalia than we'd ever even conceived...
When he died last January at age 77, President Chiang Ching-kuo, son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was gingerly steering Taiwan toward democratic reforms and modestly improved relations with the People's Republic. The momentum slowed, however, under his successor, Lee Teng-hui, who hesitated to move boldly before becoming chairman of the ruling Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party. Last week the 13th Party Congress bestowed that title on President Lee, 65, thus giving him the mandate to push for change...
...shown addressing the central standing committee of the ruling Kuomintang (Nationalist Party). Speaking in somber, measured tones, he announced that President Chiang Ching-kuo, 77, son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, had died of heart failure in Taipei, the capital. A few minutes later, Vice President Lee Teng-hui, already sworn in as Chiang's successor, called on his fellow citizens to "unite together and fulfill the mission that Mr. Chiang was unable to finish...
Although Chiang is generally well liked by Taiwan's 19.1 million people, his age and diabetic condition have stirred speculation about a successor. Under the constitution, Vice President Lee Teng-hui, 62, would automatically succeed if a vacancy occurred. But Lee is a native Taiwanese who did not accompany Chiang's father, Chiang Kai-shek, when the Nationalists fled to Taiwan after the Communist takeover of the mainland in 1949, and he has never made it to the innermost circle of the KMT. Premier Yu Kuo-hwa, 71, who does not suffer those handicaps, has had to take much...