President Chiang
'New Struggle'
President Chiang Ching-kuo told the graduates of the four armed forces academies to unite in the mission of creating new opportunities for the nation and the people.
"Beginning today, you will start a new struggle in your life and, also of special significance, you will become national revolutionary cadres in defending the nation and carrying out the mission of national recovery," President Chiang said.
The President addressed a joint commencement of the Military Academy, Air Force Academy, Naval Academy and the Political Warfare College.
"Our anti-Communist national reconstruction mission is an unusual revolutionary task which aims at safe guarding the freedom of the people and the nation," the President said, adding, "revolutionary spirit is the most powerful strength you can call upon to complete the revolutionary task you will take on in the future."
President Chiang quoted Tsao lung's "Revolutionary Armed Forces" as a guide for the new military officers:
• Discipline yourselves to be independent in spirit.
• Go forward, regardless of any difficulties, and fight to the end.
• Love the people around you and devote yourselves to duty and the nation.
• Sacrifice yourselves for all the people's freedom and to raise national morality.
President Chiang presented diplomas and commissions, and medals to out standing graduates.
At noon, the President dined with the young graduates.
Premier &m Yun-suan, in a speech at the luncheon, urged them to dedicate themselves as President Chiang had instructed, for the implementation of the national mission of mainland recovery.
Uprising
On mainland
Michael Weisskopf of the Washing ton Post reported from Peiping that rioting army veterans seized local Communist officials, ransacked offices and beat up police during an uprising.
Ideals Necessary to Foreign Policy
Former President C.K. Yen says that international relations should not be guided solely by the pursuit of national interests. Ideals and principles should also be taken into consideration.
Delivering a keynote speech at the opening session of The International Conference on "ROC-USA: 1911 1981," Yen noted that "those who regard themselves as realistic would claim at once that neither ideals, principles nor friendship exist in diplomacy, and that every nation, while dealing with others, aims to gain the greatest interest with the lowest price."
Describing this view as "short sighted," Yen said genuine friendship between countries can never be sustained by mere selfish interests.
"Man continues to live simply because, not only extensive friendship exists, but ideals often coalesce with national interests in the dealings between two nations. It is in a diplomacy of this kind that national interests are guided by ideals to meet the interests of others, to sustain peace and to pro mote mutual friendship," he said.
Reviewing the two-hundred-year Sino-American relationship, he said it provides "an excellent example."
"Since the Republic of China and the United States share the same ideal of creating a world of grand harmony, and the peoples of the two countries have also struggled and sacrificed for the realization of such an ideal, it is therefore only natural that the relations between the two countries have been guided by this ideal, and that upon that foundation of this ideal, both countries will work with mutual trust and interdependence toward its realization." Yen said.
Dr. Rowe warns
Peiping regime unstable
Dr. David Rowe, professor emeritus of political science, Yale University, testifying before the National Committee to Restore Internal Security at the Phoenix, Ariz., Press Club, said that a Washington-Peiping alliance cannot work.
Rowe said the Peiping regime is unstable, its economy, in reality, one disaster after another. "The economic dilemma can't be solved under Communism," he said.
Rowe, a specialist in Chinese affairs, said that Taiwan is of vital strategic importance, because of its pivotal location in the Western Pacific. It controls the main lanes of communication, he said. He said the United States should not abandon so great a strategic asset.
Rowe analyzed Peiping's peace offensive. He said:
"The Chinese Communist program for reunification with the Republic of China is aimed at convincing the U.S. government of the false idea that they are wholly peaceful in their intentions toward the Republic of China, thus preventing the United States from providing the ROC with arms for self defense, as the United States is obliged to do by law under the Taiwan Relations Act."
Also testifying at the hearing on "U.S.-China policy" were Dr. Miles Costick, chairman of the Institute of Strategic Trade in Washington, D.C.; and Gen. John K. Singlaub (retired), former chief of staff of the allied forces in South Korea.
Just in case
Mao 'saved'
Life in Communist China has taken a superficially relaxed air, but underneath, there is deep uncertainty, according to Alain Cass, London Financial Times Asia editor.
In Yunnan Province, pictures of Hua Kuo-feng and discarded slogans of Mao Tse-tung still adorn walls, wrote Casso In Wuhan, Mao's slogans, his pictures and those of Hua, have been taken down but not destroyed, he said. "We have stored them in a safe place," one Chinese Communist "official" was quoted as saying.
Many peasants on the Chinese mainland are refusing to implement the new responsibility system which marks the end of Mao's cherished communication policies, the article said. Foreign teachers report that educated young Chinese on the main land have become deeply cynical about the Communist party and officialdom. They see no change in a system which "enshrines nepotism, bureaucratic dogmatism and the stifling of initiative," one of the teachers was quoted as saying.
On mainland
Mao waiting
The temperature of a country is most measurable in a crowd, and in Peiping's Tienanmen Square the fever popped the top out of the thermometer. Crowds estimated in the tens of thousands, ostensibly celebrating Red Chinese sports victories, took time out to attack an Associated Press photographer and a Chinese man who sported Western attire. The photographer was not only beaten up, but acid was splashed on his clothes. The crowd kicked and pounded on cars in the square, deliberately stopping foreign embassy traffic.
Tienanmen Square was the memorable site of another crowd scene just a few years ago. At that time followers of present strongman Teng Hsiao-ping vented their anti-regime feelings in a supposed memorial gathering for Chou En-lai. Teng is now at the other end of popular feeling, the crowd's Western victims evidencing its disapproval of the aged Teng's courtship of Western countries. The crowd's puppeteers: Mao's resurgent followers, signaling their increasing strength in massive portent for mainland China's future.