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Events from day to day

April 01, 1970
February 16. Dr. George W. Bain, retired chairman of the geology department of Amherst College, arrives to join the International Executive Service Corps as adviser.

Richard C. Y. Wang, secretary-general of the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce, leaves for Bangkok to attend the Asian and Far East Regional Chamber of Commerce.

17. Lt. Gen. Marvin L. McNikle, new commander of the U.S. 13th Air Force, arrives for a three-day visit.

Mrs. Helvia Sipila, president of Zonta International, arrives for a brief visit.

Miss Gervaisnee Siefer Heanne, member of the Ivory Coast Parliament and vice chairman of the Women's Association, and Miss Berrah nee Salmon Marie Antoinette, chief of the United Nations Section of the Ivory Coast Foreign Ministry, arrives for a week's visit.

19. Russ Schoch, associate director of the American Press Institute, arrives for a three-day visit.

20. Richard F. Blanchard, president of American Express International Banking Corporation, arrives for a four-day visit.

Pao Tsung-peng, curator of the Central Library dies of liver cancer in Taipei.

22. Djime Momar Gueye, Senegal's ambassador to Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the European Common Market, arrives for a nine-day visit.

Taipei Mayor Henry Kao returns from a three-week tour of the United States.

24. William H. Moore, chairman of the Bankers Trust Company, arrives for a three-day visit.

25. The Industrial Development Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Affairs is inaugurated.

26. Miss Helen Quach, Chinese symphony conductor, leaves for Manila on a three-month performance tour.

Gordon T. Wallis, vice chairman of the Irving Trust Company, arrives to attend the opening celebration of the bank's representative office.

28. Gambian Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources Howsoon Ousman Semega Hannch arrives for a week's visit.

Dr. Francisco Dy, director for the western Pacific region of the World Health Organization, arrives for a four-day inspection tour.

U.S. Representative Lloyd Meeds arrives for a week's visit.

March 1. Chen Li-fu, senior adviser to President Chiang Kai-shek, returns after a four-day visit to Korea.

A six-member Australian trade survey mission headed by D. H. Freeman, chairman of the Export Development Council, arrives for a week's visit.

2. U.S. Representative Hojn L. Moss arrives for a two-day visit.

3. Chon Kap Ju and six other members of a goodwill mission of the Korean Democratic Republican Party arrive for a nine-day visit.

4. Major Gen. Livingston N. Taylor, new chief of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group to China, arrives to assume office.

Eleven delegates to the fifth Sino Korean Ministerial Economic Cooperation Conference leaves for Seoul.

Setsuo Takashima, deputy director general of the Japanese Economic Planning Agency, arrives for a two-week visit.

5. Chen Hsueh-ping, minister without portfolio; Chin Hsiao-yi, deputy secretary-general of the Kuomintang Central Committee; and James Wei, director-general of the Government Information Office, leave for Osaka to inspect the China Pavilion at Expo 70.

A. D. Stevenson, chairman of the Australian Timber Development Association, leaves after a three-day visit.

An eight-member Canadian tourism study mission headed by Dennis S. Baker, Canadian consul-general in Manila, arrives for a four-day visit.

A 15-member Japanese banking mission arrives for a six-day visit.

S. J. Colwell, assistant director of forests of Papua and New Guinea, arrives for a three-day visit.

7. Jacques G. Maisonrouge, president of IBM World Trade Corporation, and J. S. Beard, vice president, arrive for a three-day visit.

8. The nation observes Women's Day.

P. Y. Tan, executive director of the International Monetary Fund, returns to attend the annual IMF-ROC consultation meeting.

9. Thirteen senior editors of Japanese newspapers, news agencies and radio and TV stations arrive for a six-day visit.

11. Ray S. Cline, director of intelligence and research of the U.S. State Department, arrives for a three-day visit.

13. Sir Samuel Bankole Janes, president of Sierra Leone's Court of Appeals, arrive for a week's visit.

14. Economic Affairs Minister Sun Yun-suan returns after attending the six-day fifth Sino-Korean Economic Cooperation Conference in Seoul.

15. Frederick L. Cozier, vice foreign minister of Barbados, arrives for a three-day visit.

Dr. Jorge Fidel Duron, former foreign minister of Honduras, arrives for a week's visit.

Gen. Jack G. Merrell, commander of the U.S. Air Force Logistics Command, arrives for a three-day study visit.

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