Premier Yu brightened that shadow when he spoke with sixty-some foreign reporters on October 12th: Although the nation's firm policy of no compromise with the Chinese Communists has not changed, family members who have been separated for forty years on either side of the Taiwan Strait may now legally visit one another.
俞院長在十二日對六十位外籍記者的談話，明朗了這個隱約：雖然不與中共妥協的立場不變，海峽兩岸隔別四十年的親人，可以合法見面了。