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The United States 'showpiece of democracy which for 20 years held China's seat at the United Nations, has just had its first opposition demonstration in 37 years. A dictatorship has ruled Taiwan's 19 million people since the Kuomintang fled there after its defeat in the Chinese revolution. All parties are banned and martial law, declared on 19 May 1949, is still in Last week 400 people marched to the presidential palace where they were met 1200 riot police to be told that 'marching is forbidden because of the need to retake the mainland'. • They have had 37 years to retake the mainland and they haven't done it yet,' said one of the organisers. 'It's just an excuse to stomp on us, they treat us Thirteen countries have signed a draft pact to make the South Pacific a nuclear free zone. It is proposed to combine it with a treaty covering South America and the South Eastern Pacific, and a pact prohibiting all weapons in Antartica. The pact, which must be ratified by its signatories, is expected to be endorsed when the states meet at The treaty prohibits nuclear testing, dumping nuclear waste, and the basing or storage of nuclear weapons. China and the USSR have indicated their willingness to sign. France, which regularly tests nuclear bombs in the Mururoa atoll, is almost certain to refuse. Britain and the US are 'studying' the proposals. The US is already concerned with the effects of New Zealand's non-nuclear policy, which has led to US warships being banned from New Zealand's ports and waters.