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Show X I From garbage to prostitution, mayor is remaking Taipei Associated Press Writer TAIPEI, Taiwan Thanks to Taipei Mayor Chen Shui-bian'- s crusade to up a capital widely known as "the ugly duckling of Asia," it is illegal to leave trash at any curbside in Taipei. Instead, many people wait until they hear a garbage truck passing their homes playing Beethoven's "Fur Elise," Then, out they come with their trash. Chen also has enforced laws to fight the city's monstrous : traffic jams, to reduce the number of fires that once damaged I .many karaoke bars and restaurants, and to crack down on illegal gambling dens and a t sex industry. four-yea- r clean Prostitutes protest Besides the Nationalist Party, his only prominent opponents are prostitutes, put out of business when he shut down licensed brothels in Taipei's t district, and the organized crime groups who ran the illegal sex outlets Chen shut - red-ligh- - ( Jonce-notorio- down. WAV. HI Cleaning house: Chen AVi I ho Assm-iaw- The prostitutes often dog Chen's public appearances with loud and sometimes lewd protests. So far, they have rejected a city benefits package Chen has offered them and are demanding their jobs back. But Chen's crackdown on prostitution, decision to shut down the city's 4,000 unlicensed video game arcades to combat illegal gambling, and imposition of a midnight curfew for everyone 18 or younger have won widespread support. When police records showed the capital's juvenile crime rate had fallen by 28 percent last year, many credited Chen. Prv Taipei's first opposition mayor, delivers a campaign speech. While his predecessors were known for their incompetence and corruption, Chen has refashioned "the ugly duckling of Asia," by cleaning up garbage, easing the city's monstrous traffic jams, reducing the number of fires and cracking down on the sex industry. Shantytown razed He has razed a shantytown and dilapidated military barracks and replaced them with parks. A large wild bird sanctu-- ; ary, built on a wetland long ' used as a garbage dump, was opened to the public this month. And public buses now ' display poems for commuters to ' read, ' Before Chen, leader of the Democratic opposition " Progressive Party, won groundbreaking elections in 1994, Taipei had been ruled for 27 Shui-bia- years by appointees of the ruling Nationalist Party known for incompetence and corruption. Although the appointees had managed to build two lines of a new subway system, the city couldn't get them running smoothly until Chen took over. And even though garbage trucks had long whimsically - announced their arrival to strains of Beethoven, their haphazard schedule meant residents did not know when to have their trash ready and often left it rotting on the sidewalks. Chen's solution; the trucks now are required to arrive at a fixed time every day. Chen, 47, is expected to face Vtoher JJ, IWX. THf: DAILY III K U l Pmuv. Luh - Pane A Suit: Tobacco companies targeting a serious challenge in the Dec, 5 mayoral election as the governing Nationalist Party, which has ruled Taiwan since 1945, tries to recover Taipei. But for now, the man who first gained notoriety years ago as a leading dissident is a widely popular mayor of the capital of 2.6 million people that he is remaking. By ANNIE HUANG nday. blacks for menthol cigarettes try groups make public all By RON TODT research about the effects of smoking, especially of menthol cigarettes, on blacks. They also want a ban on menthol tobac- Associated Press Writer PHILADELPHIA The tobacco industry has been hit with a lawsuit accusing it violated the civil rights of blacks by specifically trying to sell co. The lawsuit contends menthol compounds, when burned, create additional toxic substances that make such cigamore rettes dangerous. Government studies of smoking have suggested that menthol taste makes it easier for people to smoke longer and inhale more deeply, the lawsuit them menthol cigarettes. The lawsuit filed in federal court Monday claims menthol cigarettes are more dangerous than other types. The lawyers who filed the said it is proposed the first lawsuit brought against the tobacco industry under federal civil rights law rather than personal-injuror product liability laws. Plaintiffs include several black smokers and former smokers of menthol cigarettes, and two black health groups. They are demanding that tobacco companies and indus class-actio- n claims. "Kven if you account for poverty and other things, that still doesn't account for the higher death and illness rates among African Americans," said the Rev. Jesse W. Brown Jr., a Lutheran pastor and lead plaintiff in the lawsuit. 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