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Event from day to day

May 01, 1968
March 18.  Malawi Finance Minister John Zenas Ungupake Tembo arrives for a week's visit.

19.  The Taiwan Provincial Government announces that the growth rate of the Taiwan population dropped from 2.69 in 1966 to 2.3 per cent in 1967.

23.  Alec J. Symonds, secretary gen­eral of the Australian Association for the United Nations, leaves for Hong­kong after a five-day visit.

Mayor Henry Kao of Taipei and visiting Mayor Kim Hyun Ok of Seoul sign a sisterhood accord between the two cities.

27.  Chilean Congressman Alfonso Ansiota Munez arrives for a five-day visit.

Ambassador to Japan Chen Chih­-mai leaves for Tokyo after two weeks of home consultations.

29.  The nation observes Youth Day.

A 20-member Indiana trade mis­sion arrives for a five-day visit.

30.  The Tax Reform Committee of the Executive Yuan (Cabinet) is inaugurated.

31.  A seven-member Indonesian trade group headed by Dr. Suhardiman arrives for an eight-day visit.

Shen Yi, China's new ambassador to Brazil, leaves for Rio de Janeiro.

Violinist-composer Ma Sitson and his pianist wife arrive from the United States for a month's visit and performances.

April 1.  John G. Bullitt, assistant administrator for East Asia, AID/Washington, arrives for a two-day inspection visit.

2.  China and Indonesia sign a trade pact in Taipei.

A 17-member Chinese press mis­sion leaves for Tokyo on a 10-day tour of U.S. military installations in Japan and Korea.

5.  Kaffi Aojassou, the Ivory Coast's ambassador to Belgium, arrives for a week's visit.

6.  Everett F. Drumright, former American ambassador to China, ar­rives for a two-week visit.

7.  Four parliamentarians from four Scandinavian countries arrive for an eight-day visit.

A 25-member group from Pampanga province in the Philippines arrives for a four-day visit.

9.  Costa Rican Foreign Minister Fernando Lara Bustamante arrives for a week's visit.

10.  U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman and his 28-mem­ber mission arrive for a three-day visit.

11.  The Executive Yuan appoints Ambassador to Italy Hsu Shao-chang as concurrent ambassador to Malta.

A three-member Malawi trade mission arrives for a week's visit.

The Executive Yuan appoints Ambassador to Iran Liu Ching-chang as chief delegate to the U.N. Human Rights Conference.

13.  Lt. Gen. James V. Edmundson, deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces, leaves after a brief visit.

14.  Minister of Economic Affairs K.T. Li leaves for Canberra to attend the 24th annual conference of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East.

15.  General Kim Ke Won, chief of staff of the Korean Army, arrives for a four-day visit.

Liao Ming-chuan, vice president of the Junior Chamber International in charge of the Taiwan, Hongkong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sarawak and Sabah areas, arrives for a week's visit.

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