Taiwan's President Displays Scars in Attempt to Heal Grievances

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Taiwan's President Displays Scars in Attempt to Heal Grievances
As his rival continues to push for a recount in the close balloting, Chen Shui-bian releases photos of his treatment for a gunshot wound.

By Tyler Marshall, Times Staff Writer

TAIPEI, Taiwan — President Chen Shui-bian on Sunday released photographs of his hospital treatment and his personal physician gave a detailed account of emergency procedures as Chen sought to counter opposition claims that an election-eve attack was a campaign stunt that helped him win sympathy votes and pull out the narrowest of victories.

Opposition alliance leader Lien Chan has refused to accept the result of Saturday's presidential election in which he was defeated by fewer than 30,000 of the nearly 13 million votes cast. On Sunday, he repeated calls for the vote to be annulled.

Soon after Lien initiated legal action early Sunday challenging the result, Taiwan's High Court ordered ballot boxes sealed. Hundreds of boisterous opposition supporters who spent election night outside the presidential office building in Taipei were joined by as many as 10,000 opposition backers Sunday as Chen's aides made public new information on the attack.

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