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.