The Legislative Yuan passes the revised Road Traffic Control and Punishment Statute.
Dr. Arthur A. Kimball, former director of the U.S. International Training Agency for International Development, calls on T.Y. Chao, chairman of the Vocational Assistance Commission For Retired Servicemen, on behalf of the U.S. Rockefeller Foundation.
A Thai delegation arrives to discuss the Republic of China's purchase of maize from that country.
12. Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Premier Chiang Ching-kuo send gifts to prison inmates to be amnestied July 14.
13. A concert is held at the Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in memory of the late President Chiang Kai-shek on the eve of the 100th day after his passing.
Julio Osvaldo Mosquera Cordoba, director of Panama's Industrial Development and Production Center, arrives for a 10-day visit.
14. Madame Chiang Kai-shek tells of President Chiang's Christian faith in a specially written article.
President Yen Chia-kan and some 3,000 others visit the Tzuhu sarcophagus of the late President Chiang Kai-shek to pay their respects on the 100th day after his death.
A total of 7,664 inmates begins to leave prisons as the Commutation Act goes into effect.
The law was passed by the Legislative Yuan in memory of President Chiang Kai-shek.
15. More than 3,000 Chinese and foreign dignitaries meet to mark Captive Nations Week.
President Yen Chia-kan warned the free world against the pitfalls of detente in his message to the rally. Jailany Naro, deputy speaker of the Indonesian House of Representatives, and U.S. Representatives Steven D. Symms were among the foreign speakers.
Education Minister Tsiang Yien-si presents a sports medal to Wilfred Perez, honorary president of Uruguay's Volleyball Association.
The Legislative Yuan passes the revised Land Law.
16. The second entrance to Kaohsiung port is opened to traffic.
President Yen Chia-kan receives Kuan Yu-i, chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Honduras, and Ho Shih-jui, vice chairman of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Guatemala.
Ryuji Matsumoto, president, and Eiichi Ishiguro and Masashi Onoda, executive board members, of the Sankei Shimbun, arrive to mark the first anniversary of the seriali zation of "President Chiang Kai-shek's Memoirs" in the Japanese paper.
Gen. Chen I-fan, newly designated ambassador to Jordan, leaves for Amman to assume his post.
17. Madame Chiang Kai-shek receives Dr. Lin Yu-tang, the writer, and Dr. Alexander Heard, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation of the United States.
Albert Mandjeka, minister of agriculture of the Central African Republic, arrives for a week's visit.
18. The Veteran's General Hospital and U.S. Naval Hospital in suburban Taipei sign a cooperation agreement.
Burton Levin, chief of the Republic of China desk at the U.S. State Department, arrives for a nine-day familiarization visit.
Miss Meher H. Moos, a specialist of India's Tourism Ministry, calls on the China-India-Burma-Ceylon Cultural Economic Association.
An office for the December election of 52 additional members of the Legislative Yuan is established.
19. Some 140 members of the Nora Lam Missionary Crusade Group arrive for a-week's visit.
Dr. Barbara S. Newell, president of Wellesley College of Massachusetts, arrives for a four-day visit.
20. Taipei Mayor Chang Feng-shu leaves for Guam to participate in celebration of the island's retrocession day.
21. President Yen Chia-kan receives visiting Japanese Dietman Akira Ono.
22. Miss Lin Tai-yi, editor of the Chinese edition of the Reader's Digest, gives a reception to mark the edition's 10th anniversary.
Gen. Lai Ming-tong, chief of the general staff, decorates Col. Hugo Rivera Eyxaguirre, director of the Government Forces Radio System of Bolivia.
23. Dr. Liang Kao-shu, vice chair man of the Administrative Research and Evaluation Commission, Executive Yuan, is appointed deputy governor of the Central Bank of China.
Ahmer Al-Shobaki, minister of communications of Jordan, arrives for a 10-day visit.
The Sino-Australian Trading Co. announces it will export 20,000 prefabricated houses to Australia to help rebuild cyclone-stricken Darwin city.
24. Madame Chiang Kai-shek receives Angelo Cardinal Rossi, prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Evangelization of Peoples, from the Holy See.
25. Homero Hernandez Almanzer, director of International Organizations and Conferences of the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, arrives for a week's visit.
26. The newly built southern portion of the Suao-Hualien railroad is opened to traffic.
Major Gen. Li Chang-hao spokes man of the Ministry of National Defense, discloses that the Chinese and U.S. navies held a joint exercise off Kaohsiung in mid-July.
Dr. Martin Meyerson, president of the University of Pennsylvania, arrives for a visit.
27. The 17-day National Reconstruction Seminar begins with 134 scholars and experts attending.
The Kuomintang's 1975 party work meeting is opened with 400 attending.
Chiang Ching-kuo, chairman of the party, urged party members to follow the in structions of the late Tsung tsai (Director-General) Chiang Kai-shek to fulfill the main land recovery mission.
Howard Johnson, chairman of the Corporation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Lt. Gen. James Lampert, vice presi dent of Resource Development of MIT, arrive for a three-day visit.
28. The Sino-Arabian Cultural and Economic Association is established.
30. A Chinese swimming team returns from the Sixth Asian Age Group Swimming Championships in Korea with 7 gold, 16 silver and 9 bronze medals.
Sheikh Hussein, director of the World Muslim League, arrives for an eight-day visit.
31. G. C. Manyeli, minister of the Office of the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Lesotho and chairman of the ruling National Party; Masupha Katiso, secretary general of the party; and Bereng Sekhonyana, director of the Lesotho Youth Service, arrive for a 10-day visit.
Colombia's naval training ship Glory arrives at Keelung for a five day visit.
Aug. 1. A one-day international age group swim meet is held with swimmers from the Philippines, Indonesia, the ROC and Taipei American School participating.
2. Dr. Andrew Lee, dean of the college of law of Soochow University, leaves for the United States to take part in the annual meeting of the American National Law Association.
Eight U.S. Congressional assistants headed by P.A. Mack arrive for a week's visit.
3. Foreign ideology cannot succeed in China because the Chinese people want their own political system, Premier Chiang Ching-kuo tells participants in the National Reconstruction Seminar.
4. Two amateur golfers leave for Colombia to take part in the Third International Amateur Team Tournament.
5. U.S. Representatives George W. O'Brien, Shirley Pettis and Clair W. Burgener arrive for a week's visit.
Education Minister Tsiang Yien si decorates Col. Guillermo Quezman Vanegas, president of the Colombian Shooting Association, with a sports medal.
6. Free China and Jordan sign an agreement to increase cooperation in Amman.
7. An all-star Chinese youth base ball team (ages 16-18) and the Mei Ho Senior Little League team (ages 13-15) leave for the United States to defend their world titles.
8. The Republic of Nauru opens a consulate in Taipei.
Hammer De Roburt, president of Nauru, gave a reception. K. D. Emiu is the first consul.
Kim Young Sam, chairman of the oppositionist Korean New Democratic Party, arrives for a four-day visit.
9. Eleven assistants of U.S. Congressmen led by Sherwood L. Boehlert arrive for a week's visit.
10. A Boeing 707 of China Airlines lands in Japan on its way to the U.S., signaling an end to the rupture of flights by national flag carriers of the two countries.