[Az Joe]

WOW! 105!!

One of the original Cold Warriors too!

[GeronL]

LONG LIVE FREE TAIWAN!!!

[SteveH]

I believe Madame Chiang was the last of the surviving WWII national leaders.

[wolficatZ]

 

                 May your soul rest in peace, sister

[Havisham]

Jimmy Carter, the gift that keeps on giving. (Groan)

[Bobibutu]

Friday, October 24, 2003 Posted: 3:01 AM EDT (0701 GMT)
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the widow of the Nationalist Chinese president who used her charm and fluent English to lobby Washington and become a driving force in Taiwan's Nationalist government, died Thursday in New York. She was 106.

She died in the evening at her apartment in Manhattan, according to Andrew Hsia, director-general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York. Her niece, her niece's husband and a great-grandson were with her at the time, he said.

[tal hajus]

She was 105 and they're looking for the cause of death? How about old age?

[metesky]

The Dragon Lady of "Terry and the Pirates"

[Brian Allen]

Rest well, Soong Mei Ling. Rest well.

[heleny]

Associated Press
Madame Chiang Kai-shek, seen in this 1940 file photo, widow of the Nationalist Chinese president, used her charm and fluent English to lobby Washington and beaome a driving force in Taiwan's Nationalist government.

Associated Press
With a backdrop of Madame Chiang Kai-shek's image, Chiang Fang Chih-yi, widow of Chiang Kai-shek's grandson Chiang Hsiao-yung, fights back tears as she reads a statement at the Nationalist party headquarters in Taipei after learning of the death of Madame Chiang.

[skeeter]

Madame Chiang Kai-shek... died Thursday in New York. She was 105. The cause of death was not immediately available...

Whats wrong with this statement?

RIP, Madame Chiang. She was a class act.

[StoneColdGOP]

RIP Madame Chiang.

Here's to the inevitable death of the Communist menace you fought, and which we all fight.

[Preech1]

This is weird...on Wednesday's Howie Carr show they were starting a new "Death Pool" contest because Jack Elam (sp) had died. the fourth or fifth name picked on the show was Madame Chiang Kai-shek . Kind of an odd pick I thought, when I heard, now I am wondering about it, especially where they said in this report "The cause of death has not been determined.." which would lead me to think the obvious cause, old age, is not the leading theory... (Slowly putting on tin foil hat)

[Impy]

I didn't even know she was still alive. 105. Wow.

Rest in peace dear lady, you fought the good against the commies. Heaven has one more occupant.