ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times

DATE: Monday, December 4, 1995               TAG: 9512050025
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-5  EDITION: METRO 

IN THE WORLD

Party's loss spurs official's offer to quit

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A senior official in the ruling party has offered to resign, taking the blame for the Nationalists' humiliating election setback in the capital.

Lin Shih-hui, chief of the party's Taipei office, offered his resignation after learning that only four of his party's 10 candidates in Taipei were elected in Saturday's legislative poll, the party said Sunday.

The Nationalists had held eight of the 18 Taipei seats in the Legislature. The Democratic Progressive Party on Saturday won eight seats in the capital, and the New Party took the other six.

- Associated Press

Briefly ...

A noble-born Frenchman who founded a missionary order that worked with American Eskimos and Indians is the Roman Catholic church's newest saint. Eugene de Mazenod was canonized Sunday. In 1816, he established the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.

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