12. President Yen Chia-kan hosts a reception for overseas Chinese returning for the Double Tenth National Day.
Premier Chiang Ching-kuo and U.S. Ambassador Leonard Unger visit Penghu (Pescadores).
An eight-member U.S. Congressional staff delegation headed by Michael Stern arrives for an eight-day visit.
G.W. Bogdaboff, vice president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, arrives for a week's visit.
13. Taipei-Guam (U.S.)-Cheju is land (South Korea)-Cebu (the Philippines) Sister City Week activities begin.
Coming to attend the celebra tion were Gov. Ricardo J. Bordalio of Guam; Jung Tae Young, county chief of Cheju island; and Mayor Eulogio Borres of Cebu.
Wang Jen-yuan, minister of justice, leaves for Seoul for a five-day visit.
President Yen Chia-kan receives visiting U.S. Representatives Charles H. Wilson, Mrs. M.S. Holt and James J. Howard.
14. Shen Chang-huan, minister of foreign affairs, decorates Dr. Chester W. Clark, retiring special assistant for science and technology of the U.S. Embassy, with the Order of Brilliant Star.
15. A martial arts contest is held at Tainan with 400 persons from 11 countries attending.
16. Lai Ming-tong, chief of the general staff, leaves for a visit to Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
19. A total of 5,462 athletes begin seven days of competition in the Second Taiwan Area Games at Taipei.
A five-member team leaves for Vienna to participate in the ninth World Judo Championships.
Koo Ta Choon, mayor of Seoul, arrives for a four-day visit.
19. President Yen Chia-kan receives Ralph N. Clough, visiting former deputy chief of the U.S. Embassy.
Rafael Carrillo Lara, vice minister of finance of the Republic of Costa Rica, arrives for an eight day visit.
The fourth Pan-Pacific Conference of Regional Science opens with more than 100 experts from Ja pan, the U.S., Singapore and the ROC attending.
20. The 1975 board of directors meeting of the Federation of Over seas Chinese Association opens with more than 2,000 representatives attending.
21. President Yen Chia-kan receives Neil A. Martin, correspondent of Fortune magazine.
22. The second naphtha cracking plant of the Chinese Petroleum Corp. begins production after a two-month test run.
The NT$1.7 billion plant has annual capacity of 230,000 metric tons of ethylene, 36, 000 m/t of propylene, 68,000 m/t of polypropylene and 35, 000 m/t of butadiene.
23. A four-member group of French veterans headed by Hugues Dalleaw, secretary genera1 of the National Union of Veterans, arrives for a six-day visit.
The Rev. Claude H. Curtis, chair man of the Free China Association in the U.S., arrives for a brief visit.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs discloses that the ROC is sending relief rice to overseas Chinese in Timor.
Dr. Han Chung-mou is appointed minister of personnel of the Examination Yuan.
24. President Yen Chia-kan receives R. W. Prescott, board chairman of Flying Tiger International.
25. Billy Graham, the American evangelist, arrives for a Taipei crusade.
President Yen Chia-kan officiates at a ceremony to unveil a bronze bust of the late President Chiang Kai-shek at the Presidential Office.
The China External Trade Development Council and Chamber of Industry of Uruguay sign a cooperation agreement.
26. Dr. Herbert Goldstein, an American educator, arrives for a week's visit.
27. A nine-member trade delegation from the State of Georgia, led by Lt. Gov. Zell Miller, arrives for a five-day visit.
Dr. Donald E. Percy, vice chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, arrives on a fact-finding tour.
28. President Yen Chia-kan receives visiting Turkish Senators Ahmet Ihsan Kirimli and Mustafa Gulcugil and French writer M. Michel de Saint Pierre.
George Busbee, governor of Georgia, arrives for a three-day visit.
29. Candidates for the Legislative Yuan from Taiwan and Fukien provinces begin to register for the December election.
A Chinese abacus team wins the team title at the ninth Biennial International Abacus Contest at Seoul.
30. Li Teng-hui, minister without portfolio, leaves for Nakualofa as a special envoy to attend the 100th anniversary of the constitution of the Kingdom of Tonga.
Napoleon Franco, Panamanian ambassador to Japan and the ROC, arrives for a three-day visit.
K. T. Lee, minister of finance, leaves for Houston to attend a Sino-American conference on in vestment, trade and tourism.
31. More than 3,000 persons at tend a memorial meeting and some 100,000 participate in mountain-climbing activities to mark the 88th birthday anniversary of the late President Chiang Kai-shek.
Naka Funada, former speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives, and Takio Yamazaki, member of the House of Councilors, arrive for a four-day visit.
They paid their respects to the late President Chiang Kai-shek at his Tzuhu temporary resting place.
A 20-member goodwill mission from West Germany led by Max Heilmeier, district chairman of the Young Union in Munich, arrives for a 12-day visit.
Ground for Chung Cheng Stadium, named for the late President Chiang Kai-shek, is broken by Adm. Ni Yue-si, president of the ROC Amateur Athletic Federation, and Wang Yung-ching, the donor.
Nov. 2. The five-day Billy Graham Crusade is concluded.
Some 255,000 attended, including Premier Chiang Ching-kuo.
3. A three-day educational conference opens with 120 educators, specialists and senior administrators participating.
The South Carolina Trade and Investment Mission to the Far East led by Lt. Gov. W. Brantley Harvey Jr. arrives for a four-day visit.
Dr. David P. Gamer, president of Utah State University, arrives for a week's visit.
4. The fourth Asian Plywood Conference opens with some 200 delegates from South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and the ROC attending.
Frank G. Hickey, president of General Instrument Corp. of the U.S., arrives to inspect operations of GIT Taiwan.
Julio Trigo Ramirez, minister of transportation, communications and civil aeronautics of the Re public of Bolivia, arrives for a six-day visit.
President Yen Chia-kan receives Elliot Avertt, board chairman of the American Bank of New York.
D. P. Jadeja, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the ruling Indian Congress Party, and Prof. M.V. Bajaseharan are honored at reception given by the China-India-Burma-Sri Lanka Cultural and Economic Association.
6. Khalid Haji Hassan, Jordan minister of transportation, arrives for a week's visit.
James Cleveland, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, arrives for a two-day visit.
7. Y.S. Tsiang, minister of education, leaves for Seoul for a six-day visit.
You Nes A. Ali, Libya vice minister of interior, arrives for a four day personal visit.
8. The Taipei Operation Center of the Asian Pacific Regional Permanent Committee on Food and Agriculture of the International Organization of Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement is inaugurated.
9. Dr. Friedrich A. Von Hayek, winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for economics, arrives for a ten-day visit.
10. Ernesto Imbassahy de Mello, president of Rotary International, arrives for a three-day visit.
A 28-member Swedish trade mission headed by Sten Akestam, managing director of the Swedish Enterprisers Association, arrives for a five-day visit.
The Tri-National Women's Basketball Invitational Tournament begins with teams from Japan, South Korea and the ROC participating.