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Lawmakers Throw Pig Guts, Punches on Taiwan Parliament Floor

Associated Press

   TAIPEI - Lawmakers in Taiwan got into a fist fight and threw pig guts
   at each other Friday over a soon-to-be enacted policy that would allow
   imports of U.S. pork and beef.

   Premier Su Tseng-chang was due to give a regularly scheduled policy
   report to lawmakers on Friday morning about the pork policy when
   opposition party lawmakers from the Nationalist party, also known as
   the KMT, blocked his attempt to speak by dumping bags of pig organs.
   Legislators from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party attempted to
   stop them, resulting in chaos and an exchange of punches.

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