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Taipei Square
P. K. | April 23, 1990 issue

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Some 6,000 pro-democracy students wearing white headbands sat in the square, requesting an audience with top government officials. When they got no response, sixty-one of them went on a hunger strike, while thousands of citizens gathered around in support of their actions. This was not a scene from Tiananmen Square last spring, it happened last month in the square in front of Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hail in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. The students' demands were, an end to the government's emergency powers, the dissolution of the National Assembly, direct presidential election and the convening of a national affairs conference to discuss a restructuring of the government.

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TAIWAN -- Politics & government; DEMOCRACY; EXECUTIVE power; STUDENTS -- Political activity; DEMONSTRATIONS; TAIPEI (Taiwan); TAIWAN
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