Sept. 11. John Teboho Kolane, speaker of the National Assembly of Lesotho, leaves after a six-day visit.
Chen Tsung-jen, president of Taiwan Fertilizer Co., leaves for Saudi Arabia to discuss establishment of a fertilizer plant there.
12. Gambia Foreign Minister A. B. N'Jie leaves for Seoul after a five-day visit.
The Executive Yuan ratifies extension of the Sino-El Salvadoran agricultural technical cooperation agreement for two years.
The Republic of China's first marine police operation group is inaugurated at Kaohsiung.
The third Sino-Japanese seminar on mainland China ends its five-day session.
Over 80 scholars and experts participated.
A 10-member Chinese team leaves for Switzerland to take part in the 41st world shooting championships.
14. Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle, president-elect of the Republic of Nicaragua, and Madame Somoza, accompanied by a party of 15, arrive for a seven-day visit.
A Sino-Korean conference on joint production and sale of eels is held in Taipei.
15. A Chinese mission leaves for Tokyo to take part in a Sino-Japanese seminar on cooperation in electrical machinery manufacturing.
16. The Republic of China and Nicaragua agree to step up cooperation in trade, industry and agriculture.
The agreement was reached at a meeting of Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle, president-elect of Nicaragua and Minister of Economic Affairs Y.S. Sun and Vice Foreign Minister H.K. Yang.
More than 30 women unionists from 11 countries participate in a regional seminar on union community services co-sponsored by the Asian-American Free Labor Institute and the Chinese Federation of Labor.
Mrs. Anastasio Somoza Debayle, wife of the president-elect of Nicaragua, presents a gold memorial coin of her country to Miss Li Shueh-ou.
Miss Li had donated US$1,310 as relief money to Nicaraguan earthquake victims of 1972 under the pseudonym of Li Ting-huei.
17. The 54th session of the Legislative Yuan opens.
Premier Chiang Ching-kuo made an oral administrative report at the session. Nieh Wen-ya, president of the Legislative Yuan, presided.
18. An eight-member South Korean tennis team headed by Hong Shim Tae arrives for nine days of play.
19. The Chinese Federation of Labor and Turkish Federation of Labor reach a tentative agreement to promote relations.
Kaya Ozdemir, deputy secretary of the Turkish Federation of Labor, met with leaders of the Chinese Federation of Labor.
20. A 13-member Belgian parliamentary mission led by Saint-Reny arrives for an eight-day visit.
21. Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle, president-elect of Nicaragua, leaves for home after a week's visit.
He signed a joint communique with Vice President C.K. Yen.
C. H. Hardesty, president of the Continental Oil Company of the United States, arrives for a week's visit.
Tran Van Don, vice premier of the Republic of Vietnam, arrives for a two-day visit.
Syd B. Grange, vice president of the Olympic Committee of Australia, arrives for a four-day visit.
22. Finance Minister K.T. Li leaves for Washington to attend the annual conference of the World Bank.
A 35-member delegation headed by C.F. Koo, president of the Sino-Korean Economic Promotion Council, leaves for Seoul to take part in the seventh Sino-Korean economic cooperation conference.
K. H. Yu, governor of the Central Bank of China, leaves for Washington to attend the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund.
James Wagonseller, national commander of the American Legion, arrives for a three-day visit.
25. Vice Foreign Minister H.K. Yang leaves on a visit to Western Samoa, Tonga and Fiji.
James Wei, president of the Central News Agency, leaves for Seoul for a week's visit.
26. The Executive Yuan approves revision of the air agreement with Thailand.
Paul Cardinal Yupin leaves for the United States to preside over the Double Tenth reception in New York.
David Adams, vice president of the National Broadcasting Co. of the United States, and John Rich, senior official of the Radio Corporation of America, arrive for a four-day visit.
A five-member delegation of the Japanese National Postal Workers' Union arrives for an eight-day visit.
27. Two American goodwill ambassadresses at Spokane Expo 74, Miss Leslie Ann Mays and Miss Echo Layne Rost, arrive for a five-day visit.
29. "Ten Outstanding Young Men of 1974" receive Golden Hand trophies in a ceremony at Tsinghua University at Hsinchu.
30. The sixth World Dredging Conference opens in Taipei.
Oct. 1. The annual three-day meeting of the Sino-U.S. Cooperative Science Program is held in Taipei.
Dr. Bodo Bartocha, head of international programs of the U.S. National Science Foundation, headed a five-member American delegation, while Dr. Shu Shien-siu led the eight-man Chinese delegation.
Sun I-hsuan, president of the Central Trust of China, returns from a round-the-world trip.
An eight-member Chinese national judo team leaves for Tokyo to undergo training for the third Asianjudo championships in Seoul November 1-6.
3. The sixth World Chinese Pharmacists Amity Conference opens.
Some 110 delegates from 13 countries and areas participated in the two-day meeting.
4. A 75-member Peiping opera troupe leaves for the United States on a 72-day performance tour.
William H. Gleysteen Jr., deputy chief of mission of the U.S. Embassy, leaves for home to become deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs.
5. The third World Chinese Christian Conference opens.
Over 2,000 Chinese Christians, including some 200 from abroad, participated in the four-day meeting.
Maj. Gen. Carlos Alcoreja Melgarejo, commander-in-chief of the Bolivian Army, arrives for a week's visit.
The 24-member Chi Chiang soccer team leaves for Bangkok to take part in the fifth Queen's Cup tournament.
6. C.C. Chang, chairman of the Economic Planning Council, leaves for the United States on a two-week visit.
A 49-member acrobatic troupe leaves for the United States on a performance tour.
The first world amity conference of natives of Kwangtung Province opens a three-day meeting.
7. Col. Pakhri Saleh Aqabawi of the Jordanian Defense Ministry arrives for a three-week visit.
Dr. Hung Wen-tsung and Dr. Chen Chiu-chiang leave for Brazil to participate in the third World Pediatric Conference at Sao Paulo. A 90-member Japanese calligraphic mission led by Akira Koyama arrives for a six-day visit.
8. Economics Minister Y.S. Sun leaves for the United States to attend the China Week celebrations at Expo 74 in Spokane.
Gen. Lai Ming-tang, chief of the general staff, returns from a two-week visit to Central America.
Fang Chih, president of the Sino-Ryukyuan Cultural and Economic Association, leaves for Naha, Okinawa, to take part in Chinese National Day celebrations.
Adm. Sangad Chalawyoo, commander-in-chief of the Royal Thai Navy, arrives to attend October celebrations.
Hideo Ueda, former president of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine Science, arrived to take part in a two-day seminar on nuclear medicine.
9. A two-day post-congress symposium of the first conference of the World Nuclear Medicine Federation opens.
Over 300 delegates from six countries took part.
Direct telephone service is inaugurated to Liberia.
10. A mass rally of 250,000 celebrates the 63rd anniversary of the Republic of China.
Nieh Wen-ya, president of the Legislative Yuan, presided at the Presidential Square in Taipei.
12. Maj. Gen. Ismael D. Lapus, Philippine ambassador-designate to the Republic of China, arrives to assume his post.
Paul M. Popple, newly appointed deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Taipei, arrives.
A 36-member Chinese delegation headed by Legislator Yen Kuo-fu leaves for Seoul for the first World People's Diplomatic Conference.
13. Nanlo Bamba, Ivory Coast minister for water affairs and forestry, arrives for a six-day visit.
U.S. Senator Hiram Leong Fong of Hawaii arrives for a five-day visit.
14. Mario Adolfoo Martinez Gutierrez, dean of Guatemala's Institute of Science and Agricultural Technology, arrives for a week's visit.
15. A 10-member mission representing major magazines leaves for Seoul for a week's visit.
A 15-member national team leaves for Seoul to take part in the First Asian Taekwondo Championships.
16. Frank Emmanuel Tolbert Sr., provisional president of the Liberian Senate, arrives for a five-day visit.
17. Adm. John Sidney McCain, former U.S. military commander in the Pacific, arrives for a four-day visit.
The Asian Christian Federation opens its first conference on Yangmingshan in suburban Taipei with 200 delegates from 15 Asian countries attending.
18. Acting for President Chiang Kai-shek, Vice President C.K. Yen accepts the credentials of Maj. Gen. Ismael D. Lapus as Philippine ambassador.
20. Y.T. Wong, director of the Board of Foreign Trade, returns here from the United States.
21. Dr. Yen Cheng-hsing, president of National Taiwan University, leaves for Seoul for a six-day visit.
The Chinese national taekwondo team returns from Seoul after taking second place in the first Asian championships.
23. Brig. Gen. Abboud Salem Hassan, commander-in-chief of the Royal Jordanian Air Force, arrives for an eight-day visit.
A memorial service is held for Juan Pao-shan, a Chinese student killed in Los Angeles by leftist hoodlums.
25. Taiwan Restoration Day is celebrated.
26. The First Taiwan Area Games are opened at Kaohsiung with 4,980 atWetes participating.
27. Teizo Horikoshi, president of the Interchange Association of Japan, and Sadao Iguchi, a director, arrive for a five-day visit.
Construction of a 330 kilometer high voltage power relay system is complete.
Genzo Murakami, a Japanese novelist, arrives to collect materials for a novel about Cheng Cheng-kung (Koxinga).
28. Wang Lu-chiao, former director of the Taipei police headquarters, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage.
29. A five-member Korean parliamentary mission headed by the chairman of the Korean Democratic Republican Party, Rhee Hyo Sang, arrives to take part in celebrations marking President Chiang Kai-shek's 87th birthday. One hundred and thirty members of the Japanese Diet also arrived.
The Republic of China and the Republic of Ivory Coast renew two agricultural technical agreements.
30. Nobusuke Kishi, former Japanese prime minister, and Mitsujiro Ishii, former speaker of the House of Representatives, arrive to join in birthday greetings to President Chiang.
The first F5E Freedom jet fighter made in the Republic of China rolls off the assembly line.
31. People throughout the Republic of China celebrate the 87th birthday of President Chiang Kai-shek.
Alfred Jenkins, former deputy director of the U.S. Liaison Office in Peiping, arrives.
Nov. 1. Standing members of the Council for the Promotion of Sino-Japanese Cooperation meet in Taipei.
2. Mao Yin-tsu, director of the Civil Aeronautics Administration, leaves for Saudi Arabia and Jordan on a two-week trip.
3. Misael Pastrana Borrero, former president of the Republic of Colombia, arrives for a six-day visit.
5. Col. Ramiro Gereda Asturias, outgoing Guatemalan ambassador, is decorated by the government.
7. Juan L. Manuel, education minister of the Philippines, arrives for a week's visit.
A Chinese technical cooperation team leaves for a six-week fact-finding tour of African countries.
8. The 17th Presidents' Conference of the Orient Airlines Association opens with 11 airlines participating.
9. Col. Ramiro Gereda Asturias, outgoing Guatemalan ambassador, leaves for his new post in Israel.
The 1974 Taiwan Electronics Show opens in Taipei.
10. A 12-member trade mission from Canada arrives for a week's visit.