Defense Minister Chen Ta-ching assumes office.
12. A group of 77 Japanese entrepreneurs led by Chiu Yung-han, an overseas Chinese investment consultant in Japan, arrives to explore investment possibilities in the Republic of China.
The Chinese delegation to the ASPAC conference, headed by Foreign Minister Shen Chang-huan, leaves for Seoul.
A 75-member Japanese goodwill mission led by Hiroshi Akiyama, president of Koseikai, and Shigemichi Tanibe arrives for a four-day visit.
Koseikai is an anti-Communist organization with a membership of 25,000.
15. The Fertilizer Seminar of the ASPAC Food and Fertilizer Technology Center closes after a 10-day meeting.
Twenty experts from nine member countries and international organizations attended to discuss cooperation in use, management and packing of chemical fertilizers.
Allen C. Choate, the Asia Foundation's new representative in the Republic of China, arrives for a visit.
16. Guatemalan President Carlos Arana Osorio arrives for a four-day visit.
A group of 103 students and faculty members of Seattle Pacific College arrives for a four-day visit.
Two new vice ministers of education, Liang Shang-yung and Kuo Wei-fan, assume office.
17. David N. Rowe, member of the board of trustees of the American Council for World Freedom, arrives for a week's visit.
18. Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam arrives for a three-day visit.
19. Dr. Liu Ta-chung, professor of economics at Cornell University, arrives to attend a Sino-American Conference on Manpower.
Mrs. Perihan Parla, reporter of the Ankara Adalet, arrives for a 10-day visit.
Chen Lan-kao, president of the Taiwan Power Company, returns from a tour of Australia, the Philippines, the United States and Japan.
He attended the Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Meeting and the South Pacific Power Development Conference.
21. American Ambassador to the Republic of China Walter P. McConaughy leaves for Hongkong to attend the conference of U.S. chiefs of mission in Asia.
Maj. Gen. George Godding, assistant chief of staff, U.S. Army Pacific, arrives for a three-day visit.
Harry Floyd-Evans, police inspector-general of the Republic of Gambia, arrives for a six-day visit.
A 6-member U.S. press group led by Mrs. Elizabeth Wright Evans, education director of a Seattle TV station, arrives for a two-week visit.
22. The Executive Yuan approves four vice ministerial appointments: Lei Fei-lung, administrative vice minister of interior; Yang Chi-chuan, administrative vice minister of economic affairs; and Liang Sheng-yung and Kuo Wei-fan, administrative vice ministers of education.
Miss Valerie Wong, 1972 Narcissus Queen of Honolulu, and Miss Gwendolyn Jim, First Princess, arrive for a week's visit.
24. Dr. Walter Galenson, an American economist, arrives to attend the Sino-American Conference on Manpower.
Dr. Galenson, chief delegate of the United States, is professor of economics and of industrial and labor relations at Cornell University.
Twenty-three Chinese engineers arrive from the United States to attend a three-week Modem Engineering and Technology Seminar.
Taipei's Little League team wins the right to represent the Republic of China in the Far East regional playoff at Guam.
Sir Clifford Plimmer, chairman of the Trade Span Corp. of New Zealand, arrives for a 10-day visit.
25. Finance Minister K.T. Li leaves for the United States to attend an international banking seminar.
Dr. Thomas O. Paine, vice president of General Electric, arrives to attend the Modem Engineering and Technology Seminar.
26. The Sino-American Conference on Manpower opens for a week of sessions.
Thirty-seven Chinese and American economists attended the meeting, which was sponsored by the China Council on Sino-American Cooperation in Humanities and Social Sciences and the Council for International Economic Cooperation and Development.
The Modern Engineering and Technology Seminar opens its three-week meeting.
The seminar is sponsored by the Chinese Institute of Engineers and its New York branch. More than 100 Chinese and American engineers attended.
A five-week Sino-American youth seminar opens in Taipei.
Thirty-nine American and ten Chinese youths attended.
27. Col. Le Nguyen Ny, deputy commander of the Fifth Division of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and 34 other Vietnamese combat veterans arrive for a week's rest and recreation tour.
Hsieh Kuo-cheng, president of the Chinese National Little League Baseball Association, returns from Agana, Guam, after attending a meeting of the organizing committee for the Far East playoffs.
28. Willis C. Armstrong, U.S. assistant secretary of state for economic affairs, leaves after a three-day visit.
He met with high-ranking financial and economic officials to exchange views on Sino-American economic cooperation.
29. Dr. Yen Chen-hsing, president of Taiwan University, returns from Austria after attending the 500th anniversary celebration of the University of Munich.
Chinese Violinist Ma Sitson and his wife return to the United States.
Ma gave ten recitals, four in Taipei and one each in Pingtung, Kaohsiung, Tainan, Taichung, Hualien and Kinmen.
July 1. Australian Representative Robert N. Bonnett arrives for an 11-day visit.
Mahmoud R. Salah, Jordanian vice minister of justice, arrives for a week's visit.
2. Nobel laureate Prof. Simon Kuznets, an American economist, arrives for a week's visit at the invitation of the Academia Sinica and the China Council for Sino-American Cooperation in Humanities and Social Sciences.
3. Marshall Green, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, arrives for a two-day visit.
4. Roberto de Jesus Hoyos Cartano and Jose Ignacio Arboleda, representatives of the Republic of Colombia, arrive for a week's visit.
5. Curtis W. Tarr, U.S. undersecretary of state in charge of security assistance, arrives for a three-day visit to exchange views on Sino-American cooperation.
Two members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, Pablo R. Roman and Jose de Venecia Jr., arrive for a three-day visit.
John A. Little, Australian senator, arrives for a nine-day visit.
Lt. Gen. Chou Chu-tsun assumes office as chief of police administration of the Interior Ministry.
Huang Chao-chin, chairman of the First Commercial Bank of Taiwan, dies of liver cancer at 76.
6. Gen. John D. Ryan, chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, arrives for a brief visit.
Philippine Senate Speaker Gil Puyat arrives for a three-day visit. Lido Puyat, president of the Basketball Association of the Philippines, arrives to attend the executive board meeting of the Asian Basketball Conference.
7. The Asia Trust & Investment Corp., a joint venture of overseas Chinese and local businessmen, begins operations.
8. Argentine Ambassador Paulino Musacchio leaves following his country's recognition of the Peiping regime.
Dr. Yeh Hsin-hwa, director of nuclear medicine of the Veterans General Hospital, leaves for the United States to attend a meeting of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology.
9. Sir Thomas Wardle, mayor of Perth, West Australia, arrives for a three-day visit.
More than 60 kimono-clad Japanese women from the Takamiya Ichiko Fashion Design School in Tokyo arrive for a three-day visit.
10. Dr. Shigeru Kawada, director of the Narcotics Department at the Tokyo Central Hospital of the Japanese Self Defense Corps, arrives for a week's lecture tour.
A 58,000-ton bulk carrier is launched at Keelung.
Sir Thomas Wardle, mayor of Perth, West Australia, christened the vessel Panamax World. It is the biggest bulk carrier built by the Taiwan Shipbuilding Corporation and goes to the Eddie Steamship Company, which has opened Taiwan-Australia freight service.