TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) Police turned water cannons and tear gas onabout 1,000 supporters of dissident leader Hsu Hsin-liang yesterdayas they converged on Taipei's airport to welcome him home fromself-exile. Authorities said 10 people were injured.
However, Hsu failed to arrive from Tokyo, his last stop on hisway home after seven years in the United States.
Hsu, a leader of the newly formed Democratic Progressive Party,faces charges of subversion in Taiwan resulting from his allegedinvolvement in a 1980 anti-government riot in the port city ofKaohsiung. He was not issued a re-entry permit and Hong Kong-basedCathay Pacific Airways refused to let him on a flight to Taipei.
Police said seven dissidents and three policemen were injured asriot police dispersed the stone-throwing crowd, which police hadbarred from entering Chiang Kai-shek International Airport.
Meng Chao-hsi, chief of the police bureau at the airport 24miles south of Taipei, said all the injuries were minor except for apolice sergeant who was hit with a stone.
The Democratic Progressive Party, whose members are mainlynative Taiwanese, was formed in September in defiance of martial law.But the governing Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party, has done nothingto prevent the new party from campaigning for elections on Dec. 6.
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