Vice Economic Minister Y.T. Wong leaves for the Sino-American textile quota meeting in Washington, D.C.
12. Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birthday and Chinese Cultural Renaissance Day are observed with President Yen Chia-kan officiating at Taipei ceremonies in the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.
A 10-member archery team from Sankei Shimbun of Japan arrives for competition.
Charles Stenvig, mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota, arrives for an eight-day visit.
Bernard S. Wheeble, chairman of the Commission on Banking Technique and Practice of the International Chamber of Commerce, arrives for a visit.
13. A nine-member Old Boys' Association team of Japan's Self-Defense Agency led by Seiji Chihara arrives for a four-day visit.
R.A. Hohnen, chairman of the Asian-Pacific Committee of the Boy Scouts' World Conference, arrives for a four-day visit.
14. Dr. Jose Francisco Franca Caravia, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Uruguayan State Council, arrives for a six-day visit.
Four French labor leaders led by Gerold Villeneuve, executive member of the Syndicale Force-Ouvriere, arrive for a week's visit.
15. Charles Donwahi, member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Ivory Coast, arrives for a week's visit.
President Yen Chia-kan receives William F. Buckley Jr., editor-in-chief of the weekly National Review, and his wife.
John W. Kenney, vice chairman of the United California Bank of Los Angeles, arrives on an inspection tour.
16. General Armando Leonidas Rojas, interior minister of the Republic of El Salvador, arrives for a week's visit.
A 55-member Korean delegation headed by Choi Tai Sup arrives to participate in the 10th Joint Conference of the Council for Sino-Korean Economic Cooperation and the Council for Korea-China Economic Cooperation.
17. Akira Nishiyama, former Japanese ambassador to South Korea, arrives to assume his duties as director of the Japan Interchange Association's Taipei office.
Dr. Verent J. Mills, executive director of the Christian Children's Fund of Richmond, Va., arrives for a brief visit.
Rear Admiral William H. Rowden, commander of the 75th task force detachment of the U.S. 7th Fleet, arrives for a six-day visit.
18. Mrs. Grace Minnix, national president of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, arrives for a four-day visit.
A three-day forum on ASEAN and East Asia opened in Taipei with some 25 participating scholars.
The 10th Joint Conference of the Council for Sino-Korean Economic Cooperation and the Council for Korea-China Economic Cooperation opens at the Grand Hotel in Taipei.
19. People of Taiwan go to the polls to elect 77 provincial assemblymen, 16 county magistrates, four city mayors, 313 village and town chiefs and 857 city and county councilmen.
20. Mahmoud M. Safar, Saudi Arabia vice minister of higher education, arrives for a six-day visit.
21. Minister of Foreign Affairs Shen Chang-huan decorates Charles Donwahi, member of the Ivory Coast National Assembly, with the Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon.
22. Ahmed Siraj, director of the Afro-Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, arrives for a six-day visit.
The first generator of the first nuclear power plant becomes operational.
23. An eight-man group led by Seoul Mayor Koo Ja Choon arrives for a three-day visit.
Jose Camarra Zorrilla, president of the Bolivia Olympic Committee, arrives for an eight-day visit.
President Yen Chia-kan receives U.S. columnist Joseph Kraft.
A 16-member tourist good will mission led by Yoshiro Masuta, vice president of the Miyazaki Prefecture Tourist Association of Japan, arrives for a five-day tour.
24. A women's basketball tournament among teams of China, Korea and Australia opens in Taipei.
Yu Kuo-hwa, governor of the Central Bank of China, receives the concurrent post of chairman of the new Council for Economic Planning and Development.
Senator Robert Griffin, former minority whip of the U.S. Upper House, arrives for a four-day visit.
25. President Yen Chia-kan receives A. Yager, senior researcher of Brookings Institution of the United States.
A 16-member mission from the Kyoto Rotary Club of Japan arrives for a four-day visit.
The Rev. Thomas Elhorga, director of the Far East Student Service Center in Paris, arrives for an eight-day visit.
Lin Hai-feng, an ace Chinese go player residing in Japan, arrives for tournament competition.
26. A nine-member Mexican group headed by educator Rigoberto Cardenas Valdez arrives for a visit.
S.M. Guma, president of the National University of Swaziland, arrives for a week's visit.
Richard Kaufman, general counsel of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, arrives for a six-day visit.
27. Robert William, an American businessman whose father was the friend of the late President Chiang Kai-shek, arrives for a visit.
A 17-member Korean petrochemical mission led by Yi Chong Lim, president of the Korean Petrochemical Industry Association, arrives for a visit.
28. Shuzo Inaba, a leading economist of Japan and former president of the Sankei Shimbun, arrives for a five-day visit.
Colonel Jaime Nunez Cosne, superintendent of the Military Academy of the Dominican Republic, arrives for a six-day visit.
29. Mutsuo Kimura, member of the House of Councillors of Japan, arrives for a four-day visit.
David M. Kennedy, former U.S. secretary of the treasury, arrives to attend the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Asian Pacific Conference.
30. The 1977 Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Asian Pacific Conference opens in Taipei.
Dec. 1. General Hunter Harris, former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Air Force Pacific Command, arrives for a two-day visit.
State Minister Chow Shu-kai is named Chinese ambassador to the Vatican.
2. U.S Senator Jacob Javits arrives for a four-day visit.
A group of members from the Japanese printing industry arrives for a four-day visit.
3. Howard Vander Clute, vice president of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., arrives for a four-day visit.
5. President Yen Chia-kan receives W. Theodore Debar, vice president of Columbia University of New York.
Meldrim Thomson Jr., governor of New Hampshire, arrives for a 10-day visit.
6. President Yen cables congratulations to President Houphouet-Boigny on the Republic of Ivory Coast's national day.
7. Nam Duck Woo, Korean deputy prime minister and minister of the Korean Economic Planning Board, arrives to attend the 12th Sino-Korean Ministerial Economic Conference.
Mrs. Alvin Moltzen, national president of American Legion Auxiliary, arrives for a week's visit.
A Chinese team returns from Tokyo after winning third place in the individual division of the Fourth World Karate Championships.
8. The 12th Sino-Korean Ministerial Conference on Economic Cooperation opens in Taipei.
The Executive Yuan ratifies the Sino-Salvadoran farm technical cooperation agreement and Sino-Dominican Republic technical cooperation agreement.
9. Education Minister Li Yuan-zu leaves for the United States on a two-week visit.
10. Robert Charles Smith, president of the American Legion, arrives for a three-day visit.
President Yen receives Nam Duck Woo, Korean deputy prime minister and minister of economic planning.
Karal Thaler, a North American Newspaper Alliance commentator and columnist, arrives for a week's visit.