18. Nguyen Ba Luong, speaker of the Vietnamese House of Representatives, leaves after a five-day visit.
19. Eugene C. L. Parkinson, speaker of the Jamaican House of Representatives, arrives for a brief visit.
A 20-member Japanese Diet mission headed by Shinzo Tsubokawa leaves for home after a five-day visit.
A 42-member delegation led by Wellington Tsao, chairman of the Tourism Council of the Ministry of Communications, leaves for Manila to attend the 20th annual convention of the Pacific Area Travel Association.
20. U.S. Congressman Donald D. Lukens arrives to attend World Freedom Day activities.
Ambassador to Chile Li Ti-tsun returns from Santiago.
A four-member delegation headed by William Wei, director of the Industry Bureau of the Economic Affairs Ministry, leaves for Thailand to attend the Asian Industrial Development Conference.
23. The nation marks the 17th Freedom Day.
John Kraske, director for the Far East of the World Bank, leaves for Seoul after a week's visit.
Seitoku Yasuoka, a Japanese sinologist, and five other Japanese scholars leave for home after a 10-day visit.
25. A.M. Nyasula, Malawi minister of public health and community development, and R. B. Chidzanja, minister of agriculture and natural resources, arrive for a six-day visit.
26. Barbados Prime Minister E. W. Barro arrives for a five-day visit.
February 3. Argentine Ambassador B. Muscachio arrives to assume office.
4. Vietnamese Minister of Information Ngo Khac Tinb arrives for an eight-day visit.
6. Elmer F. Cravalho, mayor of Maui, Hawaii, arrives for a two-day visit.
7. Chung Il Kwon, former Korean prime minister, arrives for a four-day visit.
U.S. Representative Cornelius E. Gallagher arrives for a two-day visit.
8. Philippine Ambassador Pelayo Llamas arrives to assume office.
9. A nine-member Thai military mission led by Lt. Gen. Boonchai Bamrungshong, deputy chief of staff of the Royal Thai Army, arrives for a five-day visit.
10. New Vice Minister of Economic Affairs Liu Shih-cheng assumes hi, post.
11. Vice Minister of Foreign Affair~ H.K. Yang leaves for Bathurst as China's special envoy to attend the 6th independence anniversary celebrations of Gambia.
14. Bertil Haggaman, president of the Free Asia Association of Sweden, and Goran Morander, vice president of the same association and chairman of the Conservative Youth Movement of Stockholm, arrive for a five-day visit.
15. Gen. Kim Too Man, chief of staff of the Korean Air Force, arrives for a five-day visit.
Chen Chung-ti, chief Chinese delegate to the trade conference of the U.N Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, leaves for Bangkok.