Taiwan Today

Mar. 11. The Kuomintang Central Standing Committee nominates Yu Chun-hsien, president of the Control Yuan, for re-election. 12. John J. Nachtrieb, president of Bank America Cheque Corporation, arrives for a three-day visit. President Chiang Ching-kuo plants a tree at Yangmingshan in commemoration of Arbor Day. Vice President of the Republic of Palau Alfonso R. Oiterong, presents a plaque to Chairman T.Y. Chao of the Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen. Ma Chi-chuang, secretary general to the President, meets with Jose Rafael Cordero Croceri, minister of the presidency of the Republic of Costa Rica. 15. Governor Lin Yang-kang leaves for Japan for a ten-day visit to promote friendship and cooperation. A week-long orchids exhibition opens to mark the 70th year of the Republic of China and the birthday of Madame Chiang Kai-shek. 16. Port of San Francisco director Edward L. David and deputy director Ronald L. Stone call on Taipei Mayor Lee Teng-hui. A 19-member delegation of the U.S. Conference of Mayors led by Richard G. Hatcher, mayor of Gary, Indiana, arrives for a seven-day visit. 17. Fifty-seven refugees from Vietnam reach Penghu after a South China Sea rescue by crew members of two fishing boats from Pingtung. 18. Robert Banman, president of General Foods Inc., and Gerald Wollert, president for the Asian-Pacific area, arrive for a visit. 19. The Control Yuan elects its president, Yu Chun-hsien, to another six-year term and names Huang Tsun-chiu, a member since 1975, as vice president. 21. Dr. Hector Lopez Martinez, vice minister of the interior of Peru, arrives for a seven-day visit. Premier Sun Yun-suan honors eight winners of the Sixth National Literature and Art Awards. A trade mission leaves for the Netherlands to make large-scale purchases. Walter V. Shipley, senior executive vice president of the Chemical Bank of New York, arrives for a brief visit. 22. Vice President Shieh Tung-min inspects Taoyuan County. Twenty-three Americans, including General L. Mayes and 12 other members of the World War II Flying Tigers commanded by the late Lt. Gen. Claire Chennault, pay their respects at the Tzuhu sarcophagus of President Chiang Kai-shek. Director General of the ROC Government Information Office Dr. James Soong leaves for a four-day visit to Guatemala at the invitation of the government. More than 100 scientists from 20 Asian, American and African countries open a five-day International Symposium on Sweet Potatoes at Taichung. A group of 14 French energy experts arrives in Taipei to take part in a three-day seminar on nuclear energy techniques and engineering. 23. The American Association of Airport Executives International Airport Facilities Conference opens in Taipei with 160 delegates from the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Britain, Hongkong and the Republic of China in attendance. Nobusuke Kishi, former Japanese prime minister, arrives in Taipei for opening of the Lai Lai Shangri-La Hotel. 24. A special mission made up of youths from all over the country pays respects to Taiwan Garrison Command officials. The Executive Yuan submits the FY 1982 general budget of the Central Government to the Legislative Yuan for review. General Piet Haryono, president of the Indonesian oil company Pertamina, arrives for a two-day visit. 25. Premier Sun Yun-suan addresses an awards ceremony at which 30 Executive Yuan employees receive cash awards and citations for research. President of the University of Cincinnati Henry R. Winkler arrives for a week's visit. Richard Pierson, president of the American Bureau for Medical Advancement in China, and John R. Watt, executive director, arrive for a 16-day visit. A group of more than 60 businessmen from South Africa arrives in Taipei for a week's visit. 26. Dr. Jeanne Tchong Koei Li, president of the Pacific Cultural Foundation, presents an album of paintings by Madame Chiang Kai-shek to Dr. Mayong Whai Kim, a university president from South Korea, in appreciation for contributions to educational and cultural exchange. Tsiang Yien-si, secretary general of the Kuomintang Central Committee, addresses more than 300 overseas party members returning to participate in the 12th National Congress of the Kuomintang. The Sino-Argentine Cultural and Economic Association is established in Taipei. 27. Lu Chao-chung, deputy director general of the Board of Foreign Trade, leads the Republic of China's sixth "Buy American" mission to the United States to make US$1.1 billion worth of purchases. 28. Dr. Nicholas Lubkowicz, president of the University of Munich, calls on Vice President Shieh Tung-min on the 23rd anniversary of Shih Chien College. 29. The 12th National Congress of the Kuomintang opens at the Chungshan Building on Yangmingshan, Taipei. A 12-member industrial and economic delegation from Switzerland arrives for a seven-day visit. 31. President Chiang Ching-kuo and Premier Sun Yat-suan send messages of sympathy and concern to U.S. President Ronald Reagan after his wounding in an attempted assassination. Apr. 1. Free cholera injections are offered the people of Taiwan in a health program to continue through June 30. Sir Lindsay Alexander, chairman of the Lloyds Bank International, and T. W. Scott, director of the bank, open Lloyds Taipei branch. R.A. van Wezel, the first South African commercial attache in the Republic of China, arrives. 2. President Chiang Ching-kuo is re-elected Chairman of the Kuomintang by acclamation at the 12th National Congress in Taipei. Dr. James Soong, director general of the Government Information Office, returns from visits to Guatemala and the United States to attend the 53rd Annual Academy Awards in Hollywood. 3. One hundred and fifty members and 75 alternates of the Kuomintang Central Committee are elected at the 12th National Congress in Taipei. 4. A 41-member group from the Ryukyus arrives to attend memorial activities on the sixth anniversary of the death of President Chiang Kai-shek. A garden party draws 5,000 to Taipei Youth Park to mark Children's Day. 5. The 33rd Taiwan Area Games are held at the Chung Cheng National Defense Cadres' Preparatory School at Fengshan. The nation marks the sixth anniversary of the death of President Chiang Kai-shek on Tombsweeping Day. The 12th National Congress of the Kuomintang closes. 6. William D. Overstreet, mayor of Juneau City, Alaska, arrives for a seven-day visit. Rodrigo Castillo Aguilar, minister of natural resources of the Republic of Honduras, arrives for a six-day visit. About 1,500 overseas Chinese representatives from 49 countries honor the late President Chiang Kai-shek at his Tzuhu sarcophagus. 7. A National Recovery Seminar sponsored by the Planning Commission for the Recovery of the Mainland is held at the Taipei City Auditorium. Minister of Education Chu Hwei-sen presents a cultural medal to Dr. Heinrich Pfeiffer of West Germany for his people-to-people friendship. Don Jorge Eguino Parada, charge d'affaires of the Republic of Bolivia to the Republic of China, arrives. Westinghouse Nuclear Taiwan is officially inaugurated at the Taipei Bank Tower. The third meeting of the Board of Advisers for Science and Technology opens with K.T. Li, minister of state, presiding. 8. More than 20 ambassadors and representatives stationed abroad and officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs open a two-day meeting in Taipei. Miss Janice Murdoch, 1981 World Trade Ambassador of Southern California, arrives for a three-day visit. The Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen of the Executive Yuan and its Australian counterpart sign a brotherhood agreement in Taipei. 10. Arturo D. Melo, minister of commerce and industry of Panama, arrives for a five-day visit. James T. Doty, president of the International People to People Committee, arrives for a four-day visit. The Wu Tsun-hsien Foundation for Educational, Cultural and Social Welfare is established in Taipei.