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Events from day to day

November 01, 1978
Sept. 11. Dr. Baruch S. Blumberg, 1976 Nobel Prize winner for medicine, arrives for a six-day visit.

George Kalsakau, premier of the New Hebrides, which soon will become independent of the French and British trust, calls on Premier Sun Yun-suan.

Roger Blandon Velasquez, minis­ter of economy, industry and commerce of the Republic of Nicaragua, arrives for an eight-day visit.

A six-member delegation of the Korean National Assembly led by Choi Young Hi, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, ar­rives for a six-day visit.

12. The fourth congress of the Asia Pacific Real Estate Federation concludes after a four-day session.

14. General Carlos Guillermo Suarez Marson, commander of Argentina's First Army Corps, ar­rives for a nine-day visit.

16. The Executive Yuan approves a two-year extension to the fishery technology cooperation agreement with Panama.

Education Minister Chu Hwei-sen presents a cultural medal to Professor Liang Tsai-tung, an overseas Chinese scholar in the United States, for his medical research and guidance to Chinese students studying abroad.

Professor Milton Friedman, 1976 Nobel Prize winner in economics, arrives for a three-day visit.

Two top executives of N.V. Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken of the Netherlands, D. Noordhof, vice president, and M. Kullman, member of the Board of Management, arrive for a five-day visit.

17. Gerald W. Graves, mayor of Lansing, Michigan, arrives for a week's visit as the guest of Mayor Lee Teng-hui.

18. General Alberto Leon Acanguren, commander-in-chief of the Venezuelan Air Force, arrives for a six -day visit.

Ten members of the Reporter's Association of the Republic of Korea arrive for a five-day visit. General Ho Ying-chin, president of the Sino-Japanese Economic and Cultural Association, leaves for Japan to attend a ceremony celebrating the late Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida's cen­tennial.

20. The Drug and Food Inspection Bureau is established at Nankang to check the purity of these products.

Harold Riegelman, legal adviser to the Embassy of the Republic of China in Washington, D.C., arrives for a nine-day visit.

Guillermo Baez Estrada, director of the Department of Consular Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Panama, arrives for a seven-day visit.

Korean Ambassador Kim Kae Won leaves for home after a 7½-year assignment in the Republic of China.

21. Illinois House Representatives George Ryan, Jacob Wolf and Edward McBroon arrive for an eight-day visit.

Miss Chi Cheng and C.K. Yang receive citations and medals from Admiral Ni Yui-si, chairman of the Republic of China Amateur Athletic Federation, for their con­tributions to sports.

Ding Mou-shih, director of the Government Information Office, returns from a month's inspection trip of GIO facilities in the United States.

Adolfo Camarena, ambassador of the Dominican Republic in the Republic of China, becomes doy­en of the Taipei diplomatic corps.

22. Dr. Sheldon Cherney, director of the Office of International Extension of Michigan State University, arrives for a visit.

23. Pusan Mayor Choe Suk Woo arrives at Kaohsiung for a brief visit.

The Republic of China Chamber of Commerce opens its 26th con­vention at Hualien with more than 2.000 delegates attending.

24. A cooperation agreement is signed by the China External Trade Development Council and the Panamanian Chamber of Commerce.

A seven-member parliamentary mission of the 1Cingdom of Swe­den led by Erik Hovhammar arrives for a six-day visit.

Dr. Harvet Averch, vice chairman of the U.S. National Science Foundation, arrives for the joint staff meeting of NSF and the National Science Council.

The president and chief operating officer of the International Tele­phone and Telegraph Corporation, Frederick W. Gibbs, arrives for a four-day visit.

General Maphevu Dlamini, prime minister of the Kingdom of Swaziland, and other government leaders arrive for a three-day visit.

25. A nationwide conference on labor-management relations is held with more than 200 represen­tatives participating.

26. The annual Sino-American Science Cooperation Conference convenes.

27. Eighty military instructors and writers are cited at the Chinese Officers' Club.

The Second Postcongress Symposium on Nuclear Medicine opens at the Grand Hotel.

28. The nation honors the 2528th birthday of Confucius on Teachers' Day.

Some 16,000 teachers and their families attend a garden party at the Taipei Zoological Garden.

Emmanuel Dioulo, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Southwest Regional Development Authority of the Republic of Ivory Coast, arrives for a six-day visit.

Education Vice Minister Chen Lu-an leaves for Saudi Arabia to attend the first meeting of the Sino-Saudi Arabian Cultural Cooperation Committee.

The New Zealand Free China Association's 20-member delega­tion headed by Jack Green and members of the Iloilo Sun Yat-sen High School Alumni Association arrive to attend National Day celebrations.

Oct.1. H.H.S.J.S. Sibanyoni, secretary of the Ministry of Works, Power and Communications of the Kingdom of Swaziland, arrives for an eight-day visit.

2. Dr. Walter Judd, honorary pres­ident of the American Council for World Freedom, arrives for a visit.

4. Lady Price from Australia, chairman of the International Girl Scouts Association. arrives to attend an International Girl Scout Jamboree.

Leonard H. Katz, vice president of Gimbel Brothers Inc. of New York, arrives to present citations to manufacturers and suppliers.

5. A 24-member delegation of the U.S. National Conference of State Legislatures led by Thomas J. Anderson, executive director, arrives for an eight-pay visit.

A 17-member delegation of the U.S. Southern State Legislative Conference led by Michael H. O'Keefe, president of the Louisiana State Senate, arrives for an eight-day visit.

6. Former President C.K. Yen delivers the keynote address at the opening session of the Con­ference on the Chinese Ideal and the American Dream.

Mrs. Fortuna Marcos Barba, sister of Philippine President Marcos, arrives for a visit.

7. A memorial mass for Pope John Paul I is held at the Holy Family Catholic Church.

General Antonio Cirillo Apolito, director of the Arms and Services School of the Army of the Republic of Uruguay, arrives for a seven-day visit.

President Chiang Ching-kuo accepts a Boy Scout scarf as a token of attendance at the Fifth National Jamboree.

The Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction celebrates its 30th anniversary in Taipei.

A 14-member Americus Sister City Goodwill Mission from Geor­gia, led by John W. Sheffeld, the mayor, arrives for a 10-day visit.

8. Walter E. Mashing, a West German quality control expert, arrives for a week's visit at the invitation of the Chinese Society for Quality Control.

Dr. Thomas Paine, president of the Northrop Corporation, arrives to inspect the F5E fighter plane plant at Taichung.

American columnist J.J. Novak and other journalists from the United States arrive to cover the Chinese National Day.

Colonel Ramon Umana Arroyo, police chief of the Republic of Costa Rica, arrives for a visit.

9. Nobusuke Kishi, former Japa­ nese prime minister, arrives with an 18-member group to join in celebration of the National Day of China.

10. President Chiang Ching-kuo reviews the Republic of China's biggest military parade ever at the Presidential Square in Taipei to salute the Double Tenth National Day.

A rally marking the 13th Old People's Day is held at National Chung Hsing University in Taipei.

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