The World - News from July 25, 1988

Taiwanese police and an estimated 1,000 supporters of an opposition politician battled at Taipei’s Chiang Kai-shek International Airport after authorities refused entry to an exiled dissident. Two people were reported injured. Police said Chen Wan-chen, 38, who has lived in the United States since 1979 and owns a bookstore in Los Angeles, tried to enter Taiwan aboard a Singapore Airlines flight from the United States but was detected and denied entry. When word of the action against Chen spread in the crowd--which had gathered for the arrival of Hung Chi-chang, a leader of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party--fighting with police broke out.