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To: lurqer who wrote (39989)	3/20/2004 10:51:33 AM
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Taiwanese president's supporters jubilant with victory one day after assassination attempt CHRISTOPHER BODEEN, Supporters of Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian celebrated victory with booming fireworks and blasting air horns Saturday as he won a narrow re-election just a day after being wounded by a would-be assassin's bullet. Chen beat Nationalist Party rival Lien Chan, a former vice president, in an electoral rematch that lifted his Democratic Progressive Party to its second presidential win. Lien vowed to challenge the results of what he called an unfair contest. The mood was ecstatic outside Chen's campaign headquarters in Tainan, his hometown in southern Taiwan where he and Vice President Annette Lu were both shot and slightly wounded while campaigning on Friday. The area is a stronghold for Chen's party, which leans toward independence from China and thus is a huge irritant to Beijing. China claims sovereignty over Taiwan and insists on eventual reunification although they have been separated politically for more than half a century. "The Chinese communists will respect us more now and they won't treat us like second-class citizens," said Fang Ting-neng, who owns a small textiles factory in Tainan. "Today we showed that Taiwan can't be put down," said high school student Amy Wu. "We've been oppressed in the international arena, but we will still work with all our hearts to walk our own road." At the Nationalist Party headquarters in the capital Taipei, faces fell and some people wept as it became obvious they had lost following a night of varying news reports on who was ahead and by how much. Campaign workers started shaking their heads in dismay as each set of new numbers popped up on a screen. Lien supporter Wang Ta-tong said the shooting on Friday had given Chen an unfair edge. The Nationalists have said the attack was suspicious and its influence should be investigated. "We were ahead all along, then they played a dirty trick," Wang said. sfgate.com lurqer

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