![]() ![]() "The officials were very polite and receptive and did not try to discourage us from proceeding with the ads," he said. Depending on their size, the organizations contributed between US$300 and US$2,000.ĭespite the critical tone of the ads vis-a-vis the Bush administration, FAPA gave officials at the US Department of State and the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) a preview of the ads, Yang told the Taipei Times. A number of individuals whose names did not appear also contributed, he said. He also had "no input" on the content of the ads, Yang said.Īside from Koo, each organization contributed to the campaign and was named in the ads. Koo was "very willing and generous" to give the money, but expressed the wish that his name not be used in the ads. ![]() With the extra money, the group intends to place ads, at some time in the near future, in the Washington Times and the Liberty Times, Yang said. The Post ad cost US$24,000 while that in the New York Times cost US$30,000, he said. Yang said the funding effort well exceeded the groups' expectation of raising between US$70,000 and US$80,000, allowing the groups to abandon earlier plans to advertise in the Washington Times and the Liberty Times (the Taipei Times' sister publication) and use the money instead to place the ad in the more expensive New York Times. The ads urged the Bush administration to support Taiwan's entry in the UN and other international organizations such as the WHO and to "trust the people of Taiwan to choose a future of freedom and peace" by supporting Taiwan's upcoming democratic referendum on joining the UN under the name of Taiwan. In a briefing with several members of the Taiwan Washington press corps, Yang said that of the US$95,000 that several Taiwanese-American organizations, including FAPA, had raised for those ads and others, Koo provided US$40,000, allowing the organizations to exceed their fundraising objectives for the ad campaign. The independence advocate Koo Kwan-ming ( 辜寬敏) played a major role in the financing of half-page advertisements in the Washington Post and the New York Times spearheaded by the Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA), the organization's recently elected president, Bob Yang ( 楊英育), said on Monday. ![]()
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