ROC athletic teams have chalked up a lion's share of international tournament victories at the top of the fall's sports season.
Little League World Series championships were pocketed by both the "Big League" and "Little League" division entrants from Taiwan. Game coverage in Taiwan rivaled regular World Series coverage in the United States. The champion teams returned from the United States to personal welcomes from President Chiang Ching-kuo and Premier Sun Yun-suan.
Playing past some 170 golfers from 37 countries, a ROC team took the championship at the International Invitational Amateur Golf Championship, held this year in Taipei. To add cream to the ROC coffee, Lee Wen-sheng took individual honors and teammate Hsieh Yu-sa took third.
With a clean sweep of their 10 tourney soccer games, 15 year-olds from Chia Li Junior Hi in Tainan gained dramatic success in division competition for the Norway Cup. More than 300 soccer teams from 14 countries took part.
ROC co-hosts Guam rights conference
A three-day International Conference on Human Rights recently concluded in Guam was jointly sponsored by the Taipei-based Chinese Association for Human Rights, the Center for International Studies in London and the Guam Association for Freedom and Human Rights.
The conference was the first of its kind in the Asian Pacific area. Scholars and specialists in human rights came from the USA, UK, West Germany, Holland, Belgium, Republic of China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Uruguay, Hongkong and Guam.
Participants presented 21 papers and held discussions on five issues: international interest in human rights, human rights in Communist countries, human rights in non-Communist countries, human rights and security and human rights and refugees.
According to Dr. Han Lih-wu, president of the Chinese association, well-known international personalities participating included Ernest Lefever, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in the U.S.; Jose G. Niset, member of the Advisory Commit tee on Human Rights of the Council of Europe; and Nobuyuki Fukuda, president of Tsukuba University in Japan.
Dr. Han said that a monographical work based essentially on the papers of this conference will be published.
Faster tabulation of votes pledged
Kao Yu-jen, secretary general of the Taiwan Provincial Election Commission, has pledged that all votes for the elections of county and city chiefs and provincial assemblymen will be tabulated with in three hours. This contrasts with the delays that occurred in the elections of central parliamentarians last year, he said.
Every municipal tabulation center will complete tabulation work within a three-hour period, and every county and rural tabulation center will finish tabulating in two hours, he said.
In order to quicken the work, the commission will install a computerized video telephone system in each center. It has also asked each center to install emergency power generation facilities in case of unexpected suspensions of electricity.
In the past several months the commission has held a number of seminars and symposiums for committee staff members all over the island to improve election procedures, he said.
People rate economy tops, pollution 'bad'
A government random-sample survey shows the public is generally pleased with government policies, particularly in the economic field, However, a majority of those questioned gave authorities bad marks on pollution control.
Compiled by the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission of the Executive Yuan, the survey covered 4,000 random street corner interviews.
About two-thirds of those interviewed indicated they are "pleased with" the role the nation is playing in the international community. Current relations between Taipei and Washington satisfy 63 percent of the interviewees.
According to the report, 82.2 percent of the people are "happy" with present living conditions. The corresponding figures for medical care and welfare measures are 78 percent and 66.6 percent.
However, 56.4 percent " complain" about pollution of all kinds.
A full 95.8 percent of those interviewed expressed "positive support" for the central government, 94.5 percent for the provincial government and 83.3 percent for the district governments.
Chinese journalists attend conference
Publishers, editors and administrative executives of Chinese language newspapers and publications in the Republic of China, Hongkong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and the United States attended the 14th annual meeting of the Chinese-Language Press Institute in San Francisco.
President Ronald Reagan sent greetings to the conference.
"I am delighted to extend warm greetings to editors and publishers of more than 100 Chinese newspapers and to the distinguished members of the Chinese-American community," he said, "We are very happy to have you meet in the States."
California Governor Edmund Brown Jr. welcomed the delegates, stressing the importance of the Chinese-language press in Chinese communities.
United Daily News marks 30th year
More than 2,000 journalists and government leaders gathered at the United Daily News to celebrate the newspaper's 30th anniversary.
The paper opened its new glass-curtained, 12-story office building and displayed a new color-printing system.
President Chiang Ching-kuo sent a congratulatory letter to Wang Tieh-wu, board chairman of the United Daily News Group, urging continued promotion of the responsibilities of the mass media and new cultural accomplishments.
Dr, Thilo Pohlert, president of Deutsche Presse-Agentur, attending the celebration at the invitation of the News, spoke on "New developments in message-switching technology and press information banks" at a lecture for colleagues at National Taiwan Normal University.
The United Daily News is the largest paper in the Republic of China, with a circulation of over one million, The United Daily News Group includes the Economic Daily News, the English-language weekly, Economic News, Min Sheng Pao, the New York-based World Journal, the China Tribune monthly and United Monthly magazine.
ROC group donates rice for refugees
The Free China Relief Association has presented 7,350 bags of rice to the Malaysian Red Cross Society for the Vietnamese refugees at Pulau Bidong, an island in the South China Sea.
C. H. Yen, representing the association, handed over the rice to Red Cross Committee Chairman Chong Yew Chong at Gombak near the camp.
Dr, Chong said the rice, which cost US$141,539, was enough to feed 7,500 Vietnamese boat people on the island for six months.
This was the fourth in a series of 10 projected shipments of rice from Taiwan.
The Republic of China will also donate 1,000 tons of rice for Indochinese refugees in Indonesia, according to Ku Cheng-kang, president of FCRA, The rice will be distributed to the refugees through the Indonesian Red Cross Society.
Sardadi Sudibjo, a representative of the Indonesian Red Cross Society, told Ku that the number of refugees in his country had reached 13,904, and assistance to maintain their health is urgently needed.
Special Olympics off and running
Special Olympics, Inc" the sports and physical fitness program for mentally retarded persons, has awarded to Republic of China national director William T, Wagner credentials of accreditation for the ROC, The credentials were awarded by Mrs. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Special Olympics international president, at the group's annual conference in Washington, D.C.
Wagner was also awarded a Citation for Meritorious Service for his work in establishing the Special Olympics program here and for organizing, training and leading a ROC ice skating team of six Chinese students to the Special Olympics international winter games last March in Vermont.
In speed skating competition, the young Chinese athletes won two gold, two silver, and two bronze medals and numerous ribbons. They later toured eight U.S. cities where they met with American retarded children and visited schools and vocational training centers,
The Special Olympics program is now being expanded throughout Taiwan to include more of the 16 sanctioned individual and team sports.
ROC student wins L.A. beauty title
Peggy Chang, a 21-year-old student from the Republic of China, won the coveted little of "Miss Orient USA" at a Los Angeles beauty pageant.
Chang emerged from 17 contestants representing nine Oriental countries to become the fifth beauty queen of the annual pageant. She is also the first Chinese ever to win the title.
Chang, who stands 5 feet 6 inches and measures 34-24-35, impressed the judges and the audience with poise, a disarming smile and quick wit.
Just graduated from Pasadena City College, she will pursue her studies at California State University (Los Angeles campus) this fall, majoring in accounting. She has been active in campus student activities.
Filipinos organize friendship group
Filipino friends of the Republic of China formally organized the Philippine-Taiwan Friendship Society in Liliw, Laguna, some 100 kilometers southeast of Manila.
Newly inducted officers of the friendship society were headed by president Benito Sumadsad.
Officials and dependents of the Manila office of the Pacific Economic and Cultural Center (PECC), headed by representative and Mrs. Liu Tsung-han, were invited to attend the inauguration.
Mrs. Miriam Evasco, mayor of Liliw, Laguna, welcomed the new society.
'957' signals ROC info-system entry
The Republic of China has reached agreement with library authorities in West Germany to use code number '957' in communications and exchange of library data with that country and other friendly nations.
This is the introduction of the Taiwan system into the world community of library data interflow.
Four Free Chinese library experts, Li Teh-chu, Hu Ou-lan, Huang Hong-chu and Huang Ko-tung, attended the 47th International Library Congress in East Germany, Afterward, they visited West Germany, Switzerland and other European countries to promote interflow of library data.
Through the code number, new books published by the Republic of China will be able to get world-wide listing. It will also assist in library statistics, computer management, and distribution and export of books.
'Three Principles' to be translated
The Central Committee of the Kuomintang will have the Three Principles of the People translated into six foreign languages.
Speaking at a San Min Chu I (Three Principles) seminar, Wang Jen-chieh, deputy director of the Department of Youth Affairs of the Kuomintang, said English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese and Korean versions of the Three Principles of the People will be published in three abridged editions (50,000, 30,000 and 10,000 words). The first is near completion.
Wang said that a Chinese edition of the book in simplified characters has been published and sent to the Chinese mainland and overseas.
The purpose is to inform the Chinese people, including main land Communist cadres, of the path to national unification under San Min Chu I, Wang said.
Meanwhile, the Kuomintang honored at a tea reception eight aged party members who took part in the 1911 Wuchang Revolution which overthrew the 268-year Manchu rule in China.
Tsiang Yien-si, secretary general of the Kuomintang Central Committee, greeted the eight veterans and called for sustained effort to carry out the ideals of Dr. Sun's Sun Min Chu I.
Clans gather for seminar on roots
A seminar on Chinese family lineage in the Asian and Pacific region, presided over by Tai Yen-hwei, senior adviser to the President, was attended by more than 200 scholars and representatives of overseas clan organizations.
In his greeting at the opening ceremony, Tai noted the culture involved in Chinese family pedigrees has united people for thou sands of years.
The conferees held discussions on the theory and research of pedigrees, and on investigation methods.
Ancient medical work translated
An 84-year-old Japanese, taking twenty-five years, has translated "Huangti Nei Ching Su Wen - Lin Su," an ancient Chinese medical encyclopedia, Asahi Shimbun reports.
Translator Tatsuzo Shibazaki was a Japanese army officer during the Second World War. He started his translation of the Chinese medicine book at the age of 60.
The Japanese language-edition is composed of 26 volumes with an average of 450 to 500 pages in each volume.
The last volume of this book, the index, was recently completed. A set sells in Kyoto for 235,000 Japanese yen (about US$1,000).
This edition will also be published in the Chinese language, the paper reported.
Inventor develops bionic card player
To prevent the mistakes and fraud that may occur during a bridge game, C. C. Wei, the creator of the "precision bidding system" in bridge, has successfully developed an electronic bridge playing bionics machine.
The Invention was shown at the ninth National Inventions Exhibition, jointly sponsored by the Central Standard Bureau of the Economics Ministry, National Taiwan Science Museum and Taiwan Province Inventors Association.
The machine is run by a microcomputer that controls eight terminals for players at two tables.
The new product automatically shuffles and distributes cards. It also calculates the results and displays them on the players' terminals.
U. S. governor says people back ROC
Frank White, governor of Arkansas, said the Republic of China has "the full support" of the people of Arkansas.
He spoke on arrival of a Chinese delegation under the exchange program between Kaohsiung Medical College and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Under an agreement signed in Kaohsiung by Dr. Harry Ward, UAMS chancellor, and Dr. H. C. Hsieh, president of Kaohsiung Medical College, seven medical school heads, including Hsieh, visited Little Rock on the first leg of a one-month tour of U.S. medical institutions.
"I hope, and I believe," Gov. White said, "the exchange goes beyond just medical science. This marks the beginning of cultural interflow between the Republic of China and the state of Arkansas."
ROC visit exceeds hopes - Dr. Brooks
"The Eisenhower Fellows Association program has proven to be an experience more rewarding than I expected prior to my visit," said Dr. Thomas A. Brooks, general legal counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, who visited here on an association fellowship.
"The acquaintances made here will continue for years to come. Bonds have been formed which will not easily be severed. It is difficult to think that such strong ties could be formed in a matter of a couple of weeks, but that is what has occurred," Brooks commented.
The EFA program invites American leaders to the Republic of China to promote understanding and goodwill.
Dr. Brooks is principal architect of many important pieces of legislation on financial institutions, monetary policies, and housing and urban development. He was accompanied by his wife Joan McEntee, staff director of the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.