Taiwan denounces Chinese Communists over Tiananmen crackdown
Eddy Hsia of the Cordination Council for Northern American Affairs in Chicago publishes a guest editorial condemning the Chinese Communist suppression in Beijing. The ROC on Taiwan urges unity among anti-communist forces and calls for international condemnation and relief for victims. A government statement by Shaw Yu-ming reiterates that the 4th of June 1989 marks a dark day, asserts loss of legitimacy for the regime, and endorses continued contact with the mainland while promoting democracy and resistance.
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Eddy Ti-chiang Hsia
Cordination Council For Northern American Affairs
Chicago
Democracy Movement
Republic of China
Taiwan
Lee Teng-Hui
China
Tienanmen Square
Peking
Peo
Shaw Yu-ming
Government Information Office
Executive Yuan
Voice of the People letters on Contra aid and Central America
A reader argues against cutting Contra aid citing Witness for Peace and Nicaragua’s war, while noting Soviet arms, boy wounded by Soviet helicopters, and Sandinista cluster bombs. The letter urges consistency with MAES funding and calls for correspondence to lawmakers. Also includes two past local items from 1964 and 1979.
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Swarbrick
Witness For Peace
Ortega
Nicaragua
Central America
FMLN
el Salvador
MAES
Bob Dornan
The
Council For Inter-American Security
Witness For
Ann Stover
Bush condemns RNC memo, calls for focus on policy
Copley News Service reports President Bush denounces a Republican National Committee memo that insinuated Speaker Tom Foley is homosexual. He criticizes Washington's ugly climate, urging sharp policy debate and ethical focus while rejecting attacks on private matters.
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Bush
Republican National Committee
House
Tom Foley
Washington
Congress
Foley
Sacramento
Calif
Union
Grains of Sand In Your Shoe A Kitchen Epiphany
A longtime observer recalls the small challenges of daily life that feel like grains of sand in the shoe. The piece muses on grains of sand shaping patience and habit, from crusts to ice cream to kitchen messes, ending with a cheeky note on climbing life’s mountains.
Economy defies doomsters as growth stays firm into 1990
Washington reports that despite forecasts of recession, the U.S. economy shows resilience and ongoing expansion. Unemployment falls to 5.2 percent, job gains slow but continue, and stock markets rise as long-term interest rates ease from 8.60 to 8.43 percent.
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Washington
UPI
U.S
America
Federal Reserve Board
United States
Fed
U.S. Treasury
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