TAIWANESE EXERCISING DEMOCRACY (original) (raw)

Communist threats to sink U.S. warships off the coast and launch more mock invasions of islets in the Taiwan Strait failed to dampen election enthusiasm on this troubled island where voters for the first time in their nation’s history went to the polls Saturday to elect a new president. Even more humiliating for the mainland […]

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Originally Published: March 23, 1996 at 1:00 AM CST