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Events from day to day

June 01, 1969
April 16. Harold R. Crawford, vice president for East Asia operations, International Executive Service Corps, arrives for a visit. T.V. Park, president of the Korean Chamber of Commerce and Industry, arrives for a two-day visit. Raul Gutierrez Vargas, outgoing Peruvian charge d'affaires, departs Taipei. 17. Jose Maria Ruda, Argentine am­ bassador to the United Nations, leaves after a week's visit. Ambassador to Japan Peng Meng-chi leaves for Tokyo after consultations. Chang Chung-jen, consul-general in Kuala Lumpur, leaves for Malaysia after consultations. 18. Ivory Coast Ambassador to the United Nations Simon Ake arrives for a week's visit. C.F. Koo, president of the Con­ federation of Asian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, leaves for Melbourne to attend the 5th CACCI council meeting. Dr. Bruce H. Billings, U.S. Em­bassy special assistant for science and technology, leaves for the United States for consultations. Ambassador to Brazil Shen Yi leaves for Rio de Janeiro after con­sultations. Finance Minister Yu Kuo-hua re­ turns from a nine-day visit to Austra­lia. 19. Dr. Stefan T. Possony, director of the international political studies program of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, arrives on a lecture tour. Outgoing Chilean charge d'af­faires Marcial Rivera M. leaves for home. Kuo Cheng, secretary-general of the National Assembly, leaves for a two-month study tour of American and European parliamentary systems. 21. A Seven-member Belgian good­ will mission led by Colonel T. de Maisieres, secretary to Prince Liege, arrives for a five-day visit. Ho Kuo-kuang, adviser to President Chiang Kai-shek, dies of pneu­monia. 22. A nine-member Vietnamese goodwill mission led by Minister of Information Nguyen Ngoc An arrives for a week's visit. 23. Ambassador to Iran Liu Ching­-chang returns for consultations. Ambassador to the Philippines Patrick Pichi Sun leaves for Manila after consultations. 24. Thomas E. Gates, president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce In­ternational, arrives for a brief visit. Economic Affairs Minister K. T. Li returns from an ECAFE conference in Kuala Lumpur. 25. Gabonese Foreign Minister Jean Remy Ayoune arrives for a six-day visit. Ambassador to Korea Tang Tsung leaves for Seoul after consultations. 26. Chen Li-fu, adviser to President Chiang Kai-shek, returns from the United States. 28. A seven-member agricultural mission headed by Sung Mien-nan, dean of the Agricultural College of Chung Hsing University, leaves for Bangkok on a study tour. 29. A 21-member industrial mission leaves for Japan. Martin Rosen, executive vice president of the International Finance Corporation, arrives for a week's visit. 30. Iranian Foreign Minister Arde­ shir Zahedi arrives for a four-day visit. May 1. Lt. Gen. Manuel Diez-Alegria, commandant of the Spanish War College, arrives for a week's visit. 4. Dr. German Zea Hernandez, former minister for external affairs of Colombia, arrives for a five-day visit. The second Taipei athletic meet for secondary school and college stu­dents opens at the Municipal Stadium. 5. Sir Henry E. Bolte, premier of the State of Victoria, Australia, arrives for a three-day visit. Jose Vicento de Faria Lima, for­mer mayor of Sao Paulo, Brazil, arrives for a four-day visit. A two-week seminar on agricultural and rural development opens in Taipei. 6. James Wei, director-general of the Government Information Office, leaves on an inspection tour of South­east Asia and Europe. 7. The nation pays tribute to Genghis Khan, founder of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty. 8. Thai Ambassador to the United Nations Anand Panyarachun arrives for a four-day visit. A three-member Dahomey inspec­tion group led by Adrien Ahanhanzo Glele, minister of rural area development and ·cooperation, arrives for a week's visit. 10. A 47-member Asian tour group of America's International Conference of Weekly Newspaper Editors arrives for a week's stay and ICWNE's 1969 convention. Urbain Nicou, Dahomey minister of information and tourism, arrives for an eight-day visit. 11. An eight-member mission headed by S.Y. Dao, 'secretary-general of the Council for International Economic Cooperation and Development, leaves for Seoul for a week's study tour of political and economic institutions in Korea. 12. Stephen Cardinal S.H. Kim of South Korea arrives for a three-day visit. Defense Minister Chiang Ching-kuo leaves for Bangkok for a six-day official visit as President Chiang Kai­-shek's special envoy. 15. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Maurice H. Stans arrives for a brief visit.

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