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Events from day to day

July 01, 1973
May 11. Dr. Abdul Salam Atallah El-MaJali, president of the University of Jordan, arrives for a week's visit.

An 11-member Chinese table ten­nis team leaves for Saigon for friendly matches with South Vietnamese and Cambodian players.

12. General Lucius D. Clay, com­mander of the U. S. Air Force Pacific, arrives for a three-day visit.

A softball team from Hongkong arrives for a two-week goodwill tour.

13. Twenty-seven "Model Moth­ers" are cited at a Taipei City Hall rally on Mothers' Day.

A 25-member French mission arrives to explore trade opportunities.

Albert L. Fern, vice president of Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, arrives for a visit.

14. Misses Wu Ming-yueh, Tu Ah­-yu, Tsai Li-hsiang and Lin Chun­-chao leave for Honolulu to play in the 1973 Hawaii Women's Open Golf Tournament.

15. The Asian TV Regional Co­ordinating Office opens its second annual meeting in Taipei.

15. Major Carlos Arana, son of President Carlos Arana Osorio of Guatemala, leaves for home after a three-day visit.

16. Vice President C.K.Yen receives Paik Nan Ok, senior adviser to the Korean Democratic Re­publican Party.

17. Madame Karen Olsen de Figueres, First Lady of Costa Rica, arrives for a week's visit.

A group of 22 American businessmen and members of the Defense Orientation Conference Associa­tion headed by MacNeil Mitchell arrives for a two-day visit.

18. The four-day annual meeting of the Pacific Chapter of the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars opens in Taipei.

A l4-member mission leaves for New York to attend an international computer conference.

A six-member delegation leaves for Guam to take part in the second international congress of the Pacific Science Association.

19. Kiding Wang, Chinese ambas­sador to the Central African Re­ public, presents his credentials to President Jean-Bedel Bokassa.

One hundred and fifty-nine members of the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra Society ar­rive in Taipei for a four-day visit and concerts.

20. Rear Admiral Supa Gajaseni, commander of the Thai Navy Patrol Squadron, arrives in Taipei for a week's visit.

Lions International District 300, Republic of China, opens its 1972-73 convention in Taipei.

21. Fernando Manfredo, Panama­nian minister of industry and commerce, arrives with his wife for a five-day visit.

Dr. Wu Ta-you, chairman of the National Science Council, returns from the U.S.

22. A 12-member Chinese team leaves for Korea to take part in the first world Taekwando cham­pionship.

23. Dr. Desiderio Melanio Enciso, new Paraguayan ambassador to the Republic of China, arrives.

Major General Donald H. Ross, commander of the 327th U.S. Air Force in Taiwan, leaves after a two-year tour of duty.

24. The Cabinet approves appointment of Sampson C. Shen as Chinese ambassador to the Re­public of Colombia.

Initial agreement is reached between the ROC and Panama to cooperate in agriculture, industry and trade.

A 36-member overseas Chinese mission headed by Yang Yen­-chieh arrives from Brazil for a month's visit.

A 28-member Chinese delegation returns from the 19th Asian Film Festival in Singapore.

27. Count Graf von Staekelberg, chief market researcher of EES, arrives for a five-day visit.

Brig. Gen. Lynwood E. Clark, new commander of the 327th U.S. Air Division, arrives.

28. A Sino-American seminar on seismology opens with some 50 scientists attending.

Z. D. Bonner, executive vice president of the Gulf Oil Corporation, arrives for a three-day visit.

29. Princess Vibhavadi Rangsit of Thailand leaves for home after a week's visit.

Damilo Jimenez Veiga, adviser to President Jose Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica on labor and social affairs, arrives for an eight-day visit.

The Republic of China opens a consulate in Atlanta, Georgia.

A four-member mission of the World Islamic League headed by S. Al Shakkaff of Saudi Arabia, leaves after a three-day visit.

The Taipei City Table Tennis Team returns after a 19-day tour of South Vietnam, the Khmer Republic and Hongkong.

30. Prince Mohammed bin Talal of Jordan leaves after a three-week visit.

Radio telephone service between Taipei and Monaco is inaugurated.

31. The Cabinet names Dr. Hsu Hsien-hsiu chairman of the National Science Council; Philip C.C. Chang chairman of the Economic Planning Council (the Council for International Economic Co­operation and Development); Dr. Liang Kuo-shu vice chairman of the Executive Yuan's Commission for Research, Development and Evaluation; and Robert C. T. Lee chairman of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction.

The Cabinet approves appointment of Yu Kuo-ping as am­bassador to the Republic of Honduras.

The China Youth Corps elects Lee Huan director.

Vice Foreign Minister R. K. Yang leaves on a 45-day tour of Africa as the special envoy of President Chiang Kai-shek.

June 1. Lt. Gen. Chaveng Young-­charoen, commandant of the Royal Thai War College, arrives for a three-day visit.

The Republic of China opens regular shipping service to Indonesia.

J. D. Gerard, New Zealand lawyer known as the "friend of Chinese fishermen," arrives in Kaohsiung for a three-day visit.

2. L. K. Chen, president of Tai­power, returns from the U.S. after contracting for loans totaling US$83.6 million,

A three-nation invitational basket­ball tournament opens in Taipei.

4. M. J. Prajogo, chairman of the Pacific Area Travel Association, leaves for Hongkong after a three-day visit.

A 19-member tourism mission returns after a 34-day tour of the United States and Canada.

A group of 14 leaders of the travel industry headed by Yu Wan-li leaves for Bangkok for a two-week tour of Southeast Asia.

5. Mrs. Julita C. Benedicto, presi­dent of the Federation of Asian Women's Associations, arrives in Taipei to attend the 6th FAWA general meeting.

Kaohsiung City becomes a sister city of Barranquilla in northern Colombia.

7. Dr. Harold Hinton, professor of politics at George Washington University, arrives for a five-day visit.

8. The Federation of Asian Wom­en's Association opens its 6th general meeting in Taipei.

Dr. Amado Yuzon, founder of the United Poets Laureate Interna­tional, Philippines, arrives for a week's visit.

9. Lt. Gen. Richard M. Hoban, vice commander of the U.S. Air Force Logistics Command, arrives for a three-day visit.

10. Admiral Jit Sangkhadul, Thai chief of naval operations, arrives for a three-day visit.

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