Taiwan Today

July 11. Tourists totaled 499,167 in the first six months of 1976, an increase of 24.5 per cent over the like period last year.

Sheikh Mohamed Alkhalifa, secre­tary general of the Bahrain Youth and Sports Committee, arrives for a four-day visit.

Burton Levin, director of the China desk of the U.S. State Department, arrives for an eight-day visit.

12. President Yen Chia-kan names Liu Chao-tien vice minister of interior and Hsueh Jen-yang as ambassador to Nicaragua.

Communications Minister Lin Chin-sheng presents awards to shipping workers on Navigation Day.

13. The Taiwan Provincial Gov­ernment names Huang Ching-feng, magistrate of Taitung County, as director of the Provincial Food Bureau.

Fourteen U.S. Congressional aides visit the frontline island of Kinmen during an eight-day stay in the Republic of China.

14. Sheikh Hussein Mansuri, Saudi Arabia communications vice min­ister, arrives for a four-day visit.

15. Premier Chiang Ching-kuo visits the Legislative Yuan to thank members for their cooperation.

President Yen Chia-kan receives Luis Gonzales Barros, adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Colombia.

The Executive Yuan appoints Finance Minister Walter H. Fei as Chinese representative to the In­ternational Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Development Association and International Finance Corporation and L. T. Hsu as deputy governor of the Asian Development Bank.

The 18-member Canddal women's chorus from Norway arrives for four performances.

China Airlines, flag carrier of the Republic of China, resumes Taipei-Seoul flights via Fukuoka, Japan.

17. The Republic of China's Olympic Committee reiterates its stand upholding the Olympic charter and spirit as the Chinese team withdraws from the Montreal Games rather than compete as "Taiwan."

The 1976 workshop of the Kuomintang opens at Yangmingshan.

18. President Yen Chia-kan re­ceives visiting U.S. Representative John B. Anderson; Richard G. Landini, president of Indiana State University; and Wendell H. Ned­derman, president of the Universi­ty of Texas.

Georges Apelete Johon Creppy, vice president of the Supreme

Court and president of the Ad­ministrative Court of the Republic of Ivory Coast, arrives for a six-day visit.

Ambassador Tchen Hiong-fei and Uruguayan Foreign Minister Juan Talmos Blain Colos sign in Mon­tevideo an agreement extending agricultural cooperation for two years.

19. More than 1,600 well-wishers greet the returning Olympic team at Taipei International Airport.

Liu Kuo-tsai, vice president of the Legislative Yuan, and five other members leave for Seoul and a five-day visit at the invitation of Chung II Kwon, speaker of the South Korean National Assembly.

20. Chairman Chiang Ching-kuo of the Kuomintang Central Committee urges members to strength­en their anti-Communist spirit, face danger, improve their service to the people, and lead indus­trious, frugal and simple wartime lives.

The Taipei Century Youth Sym­phony Orchestra leaves for a three-week tour of the United States in celebration of the American bicentennial.

21. Premier Chiang Ching-kuo receives U.S. Representative Edward J. Derwinski (R-Ill.).

22. Premier Chiang Ching-kuo hosts a reception for the Modern Engineering and Technology Semi­nar.

23. Tens of thousands attend a Taipei rally saluting Captive Na­tions Week. The chief speaker was Presi­dent Yen Chia-kan.

President Yen Chia-kan sends a cable to U.S. President Gerald Ford expressing congratulations on the Mars landing of Viking I.

24. The Seventh World Children's Art Exhibition opens at the National Museum of History with 1,000 works from 34 countries on display.

25. Premier Chiang Ching-kuo inspects agricultural establishments in Pingtung County.

26. President Yen Chia-kan receives Glenn Terrell, president of Washington State University at Pullman and Leland W. Miles, president of the University of Bridgeport at Bridgeport, Conn.

27. The 12th meeting of the Academia Sinica opens.

A 37-member troupe from the United States, the Young Ameri­cans, arrives for five days of performances.

28. Stephen M. Dubrul Jr., chairman of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, arrives for a four-day visit.

Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio, secretary of the Vatican's Sacred Con­gregation of the Clergy, arrives for a three-day visit.

Meiho beats Guam to enter the Senior Little League world series.

29. President Yen Chia-kan receives Mrs. March Fong, state sec­retary of California.

The Academia Sinica elects nine new members.

30. The U.S. Export-Import Bank and Chase Manhattan Bank agree to loan US$54 million to the Republic of China for telecommunications expansion.

A 27-member delegation headed by Chen Mien-hsiu, chairman of Bank of Taiwan, leaves for Guam to attend the Seventh World Chinese Bankers' Conference.

31. President Yen Chia-kan re­ceives Dr. William H. Patterson, president of the University of South Carolina.

U.S. President Gerald R. Ford and Secretary of State Henry A. Kis­singer cable thanks to President Yen Chia-kan and Premier Chiang Ching-kuo for U.S. bicentennial greetings.

Miss Li Tchong-koei, director of the Bureau of International Cultural and Educational Relations of the Ministry of Education, leaves for the United States to attend a world teachers' conference.

Ninety professors leave for the United States for a month's visit.

Fourteen Japanese journalists arrive for a two-day visit.

Aug. 1. Premier Chiang Ching-kuo visits China Youth Corps activities in Kinmen and also visits Penghu.

The National Reconstruction Seminar opens in Taipei with 130 local and overseas Chinese scholars participating.

Some 250 members of the U.S. 14th Air Force Association arrive for a 10-day meeting.

2. Work begins on an underground parking garage in front of the Taipei City Auditorium.

3. President Yen Chia-kan receives eight members of the U.S. 14th Air Force Association, including Mrs. Anna Chennault, window of the 14th's commander, Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault.

An 18-member mission of the Hongkong Shipowners' Association arrives for a week's visit.

More than 500 overseas Chinese youths go to Kaohsiung to visit economic and military establish­ments.

The Building Materials Show of the China External Trade Development Council opens.

4. The Central Standing Commit­tee of the Kuomintang extends "deepest sympathy" to victims of the earthquake in Northeast China.

5. The Executive Yuan approves extension of the Sino-Panamanian pact on technical fishery cooperation for two years.

Taoyuan Magistrate Wu Po-hsiung is appointed acting director of the Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Mo­nopoly Bureau.

Korean Ambassador Kim Kae-won presents plaques to Chow Chu-chung, commissioner of the Police Department of Taiwan Province, and others for contributions in safeguarding overseas Koreans.

6. Foreign Minister Shen Chang-huan decorates Foreign Minister Antonio Franck of the Central African Republic with the Order of Brilliant Star with Grand Cordon.

K.H. Yu, governor of the Central Bank of China, says the interest rate will not be changed.

7. Vice Foreign Minister H.K. Yang meets with President Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay.

A 225,000-ton supertanker puts into Kaohsiung for repairs at the China Shipbuilding Corporation. Kin Aizawa, newly appointed deputy chief of the Japanese Inter­ change Association Taipei Office, arrives.

8. Thaddeus Garrett Jr., special assistant on domestic and internal affairs to the U.S. vice president, arrives for a four-day visit.

Little Leaguers from Hualien lose the Far East championship to Japan, 10-3, at Guam.

9. Premier Chiang Ching-kuo tours Hsinchu County to inspect construction projects.

10. Premier Chiang Ching-kuo vis­its the Central Weather Bureau as Typhoon Billie approaches Taiwan.