12. President Yen Chia-kan receives Robert C. Smith, commander of the American Legion.
13. Richard C. Ashley, group vice president of the Allied Chemical Corporation of Morristown, N.J., arrives for a visit.
The Burmah Endeavor, a 450,000-ton tanker built by the China Shipbuilding Corporation, is delivered to her owners at Kaohsiung.
Walter Montenegro, outgoing Bolivian ambassador to the ROC, says farewell to President Yen Chia-kan.
14. Marco T. Penaherrera Garlardo, Ecuadoran vice minister of agriculture and livestock, arrives for a week's visit.
A 15-member Moslem group led by Haji Yusuf T.C. Chang returns to Taipei from a 30-day visit to Saudi Arabia.
15. Dr. Ku Cheng-kang, honorary chairman of the World Anti-Communist League, returns from a visit to the United States.
The Hongkong Post Office announces Speedpost service to Taiwan beginning January 3.
The technical cooperation agreement between the ROC and Panama is extended for two years.
17. The Haikung, a 700-ton research ship, leaves Keelung for a second voyage to the Antarctic.
18. Minister of State George K.C. Yeh leaves for the United States to preside over a meeting on the teaching of Chinese.
19. Spiro Agnew, former U.S. vice president, arrives for a four-day visit.
20. Seventy-seven Taiwan Provincial Assemblymen and 20 city mayors and county magistrates are sworn in for four-year terms.
The first railroad underpass exclusively for motorcycles is opened in Taipei.
An exhibition of furniture and interior decorations opens at the Chinese Products Display Center in Taipei.
21. Economic Minister Y.S. Sun presides over a meeting of Chinese trade representatives stationed in the Asian-Pacific area and the Middle East.
22. Chinese and American military and diplomatic leaders exchange greetings at a Christmas party given by Defense Minister Kao Kwei-yuan.
Interior Minister Chang Feng-shu presents certificates of election to members of the new Taipei City Council.
23. The 24th conference of the Planning Commission for the Recovery of the Mainland opens at the Taipei City Auditorium.
Akira Nishiyama, director of Interchange Association Office in Taipei, calls on Taiwan Governor Shieh Tung-min.
25. Lin Ting-sheng is re-elected speaker and Clement C.P. Chang is re-elected vice speaker of the Taipei City Council.
Mayor Lin Yang-kang presents audiovisual educational equipment to children at the Cheng Hsing Rehabilitation Medical Center.
People of Taipei hold a mass rally to mark the 30th anniversary of the implementation of constitutional rule.
An exhibition of books and other materials opens at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall.
26. A group of 29 abacus specialists from Osaka arrive for a three-day visit.
Dr. Joseph Coffee, head of Eisenhower College in New York, arrives for a five-day visit.
The Rt. Rev. Thomas White, counselor and charge d'affaires of the Apostolic Nunciature, presents Pope Paul VI's 1978 message of peace to President Yen Chia-kan.
27. Twenty-two Chinese Boy Scouts leave for the Philippines to attend an international camporee.
A 25-member girls' soft tennis team from Kagoshima Girls High School in Kyushu, Japan, arrives for a five-day visit.
28. Robert P. Sparks, 210th international Executive Service Corps volunteer to serve in the ROC, arrives.
Li Hsien-pin, a freedom-seeker from the mainland, is promoted to full colonel in the Chinese Air Force.
The 1977 Chia Hsin Foundation awards for the best writing of 1977 are presented to 13 winners.
29. The Directorate General of Telecommunications inaugurates a computerized telephone information service.
31. The interchange for the Feng-yuan section of the North-South Freeway is opened to traffic.
The Governor's Cup bridge tournament opens in Taichung.
President Yen Chia-kan cables congratulations to President Jean Qaude Duvalier on Haiti's national day.
Education Minister Li Yuan-zu gives a New Year's reception for more than 1,000 foreign scholars and students.
Jan. 1. The Yuanshan cantilever bridge of the North-South Freeway is opened.
A ceremony at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall marks the 67th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of China.
Diplomats sign congratulatory scrolls at the Presidential Building.
2. Col. Jose Luis Cruz Salazar, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Guatemalan National Congress, arrives for a visit.
3. The Kuomintang Central Standing Committee announces changes in six top-level posts of the party's Central Committee and Provincial Committee.
4. A South Korean training fleet commanded by Commodore Yi Chung-su arrives at Keelung for a three-day visit.
5. Mike O'Callaghan, governor of Nevada, arrives for a six-day visit.
Sen. Richard B. Stone (D-Fla.), second-ranking Democratic member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, arrives for a six-day visit.
6. Dr. Chester T. McNarie of Edinburgh University in Pennsylvania arrives to serve for a year as visiting professor of history at National Taiwan University.
7. Ten journalists from the Western United States arrive for a 10-day visit.
Senate finance committee members Carl T. Curtis (R-Neb.) and Clifford P. Hansen (R-Wyo.) arrive for a visit.
Tadao Kuraishi, member of Japan's House of Councilors, arrives for a six-day visit.
8. A 27-member India agriculture and monetary mission arrives for a visit.
9. A Sino-Korean housewives' seminar organized by the Chinese Home Education Association opens in Taipei.
Premier Chiang Ching-kuo receives U.S. journalists.
The Second Asian Pacific Conference 011 Publications opens for a week.
10. A Chinese purchasing mission led by H.K. Shao, director general of the Board of Foreign Trade, leaves for the United States.