April 16. Liu Tsing-chang and Ting Mao-shih, ambassadors to Iran and the Congo (Kinshasa), respectively, return to their posts after home consultations.
17. Vice Foreign Minister Sampson Shen returns from a two-month tour of 13 countries in Central America and the Caribbean area.
Mo Teh-hui, former president of the Examination Yuan, dies of cerebral thrombosis.
Hermann P. Weber, president of the Australian Institute of Management, arrives for a three-day visit.
19. Gen. Francisco Jose Miliani Aranguren, commander-in-chief of the Venezuelan Air Force, arrives for an eight-day visit.
21. Twenty mayors and magistrates and 71 Taiwan provincial assemblymen are elected.
22. China and Australia sign a trade agreement at Canberra.
23. Deputy Speaker of the Niger Congress Amadou Hassane and Mohamadou Moctar Sidibe arrive for a nine-day visit.
25. Col. N.J. Sofjan, director of the Indonesian Armed Forces Daily Mail in Jakarta, arrives for a six-day visit.
28. Adm. Arleigh Burke, former U.S. chief of naval operations and now director of the Center for Strategic Studies at Washington's Georgetown University, arrives for a five-day visit.
29. Maj. Jose L. Estebes Vittuoso, former secretary-general of the government of Portuguese Timor, arrives for a brief visit.
30. Chuang Hsuin-shwen, secretary-general of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction, leaves for Manila to attend the 16th commission meeting on Asian and Far Eastern affairs of the International Chamber of Commerce.
Economic Affairs Minister K. T. Li returns from Australia.
May 1. Koo Chen-fu, president of the Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce, leaves for Manila to attend the 16th commission meeting on Asia and Far Eastern affairs of the International Chamber of Commerce.
3. The five-day Conference on Population Programs in East Asia opens in Taipei.
4. Wen Yuan-ning, ambassador to Greece, returns for home consultations.
Douglas Caton, a Food for Peace program official of the U.S. Agency for International Development, arrives for a 10-day visit.
A four-day athletic meet for college and high school student opens in Taipei.
5. James Shen, ambassador to Australia, returns for home consultations.
Gen. Raymond J. Reeves, commander-in-chief of the North American Air Defense Command, arrives for a two-day visit.
7. Yaya Lang Ceesay, Gambian minister of agriculture and natural resources, arrives for a nine-day visit.
8. Chang Ming-chien, chairman of the Chinese Man-made Fiber Manufacturers Association, leaves for Seoul to attend the four-day Sino-Korean Economic Conference.
A 20-member press mission from the Ryukyu islands, headed by Jinshiro Miagi, chairman of the Sino-Okinawan Cultural and Economic Association, arrives for a six-day visit.
The Foreign Ministry announces resumption of diplomatic relations with the Central African Republic.
9. Taiwan's population, including Taipei City, is announced as 13,386,745 at the end of March.
10. A three-member mission from the World Bank headed by David Know, deputy chief of the Project Department, arrives for a visit.
12. Howard Farrelly, business director of the Asian Development Bank, leaves after a three-day study tour.
14. Dominican Foreign Minister Fernando Amiama Tio arrives for a five-day visit.
15. Robert Niu, president of the China Express, is appointed Costa Rica's honorary consul in Taipei.