W.B. Seaton, president of American President Lines, arrives for a visit.
12. A two-day meeting of Chinese and Japanese handtool makers opens in Taipei to discuss strengthening of friendship and cooperation.
The Nanlien International Corporation, third largest trading company established in the Republic of China, begins operations. Sheikh Abdulwahhab Abdu Wasi, minister of pilgrimage and endowments of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, returns home after a six-day visit to the Republic of China.
President Chiang Ching-kuo receives three visiting ministers of the Republic of El Salvador. Twenty-two businessmen from San Francisco, headed by Harry Orbelian, vice president of the Greater San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, arrive for a week's visit.
14. President Chiang Ching-kuo celebrates his 69th birthday with a visit to the sarcophagus of his father, President Chiang Kai-shek, at Tzuhu.
A 16-member delegation from Houston, a sister city of Taipei, arrives for a five-day visit under the leadership of Mayor Jim McConn.
16. A Taipei reception is given by E1 Salvador's minister of foreign affairs, Jose Antonio Rodriguez Porth; minister of economic planning and coordination, Eduardo Reues; and minister of agriculture and pasturages, Jose Rutilio Aguilera Carreras.
The International Community Radio in Taipei, replacing the American Forces Network Taiwan, goes on the air.
The American Institute in Taiwan begins operations although opening of the Travel Service Section, which processes U.S. visas, is delayed for a week.
Gregorrio Calvo, chairman of the Guam Senior Little League Federation, presents H.C. Yen, president of the Retser Engineering Agency, VACRS, with a citation to mark Yen's contributions to Chinese-Guamian friendship.
Dr. Ku Cheng-kang, honorary chairman of the World Anti- Communist League, leaves for Asuncion, Paraguay, to attend the league's 12th world conference.
S.K. Chow, ambassador of the Republic of China to the Holy See, returns home for consultations.
17. More than 50 officials from 18 countries and Hong Kong attend the International Softball Federation World Congress in Taipei.
The seventh annual Flying Tiger Invitational Golf Tournament is held on the Taiwan Golf and Country Club course at Tamsui.
Ambassador Buenaventura Caviglia Campora of Uruguay presents his credentials to President Chiang Ching-kuo.
18. The Flying Tigers convene their Asian general managers' meeting at the Taipei Hilton Hotel.
President Chiang Ching-kuo receives 11 Catholic prelates of the Taiwan and Penghu areas.
Carlos Toledo Vielman, director of the Information Bureau of the Presidential Office in the Republic of Guatemala, arrives for a week's visit.
19. Roberto Palma Galvez, minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of Honduras, arrives for a week's visit.
The Executive Yuan resolves to establish a health and environmental protection administration to deal with pollution problems. Tsai Wei-ping, director of the Coordination Council for North American Affairs, announces appointment of Konsin C. Shah, former ambassador to New Zealand and consul general in New York, as director of the CCNAA Washington office.
20. Benedict Kinika, deputy prime minister and minister of finance of the Solomon Islands, arrives for a week's visit.
One hundred and eighteen Japanese "go" experts, accompanied by Lin Hai-feng, one of the top ROC players, arrive for the third Sino-Japanese tournament.
22. The First Pan Pacific Youth Rugby Championships open at Taipei City Stadium with teams from Japan, the United States, Tonga and the Republic of China participating.
23. A four-member goodwill delegation from Davao in the Republic of Panama is led to Taipei by Mayor Antonio Navarro for an eight-day visit.
Vice Admiral Jorge Parodi Galliani, former minister of the navy and commander-in-chief of the navy of the Republic of Peru, arrives for an eight-day visit.
Economic Minister K.S. Chang returns from a two-week visit to the United States.
Gengo Nawano, director of the Japan Favor Repaying Society, visits Taichung City Mayor Tseng Wen-po.
24. Foreign Minister Tsiang Yien-si and Honduran Foreign Minister Roberto Palma Galvez sign a cultural agreement.
25. The Most Rev. Edward Cassidy, former ambassador of the Holy See to the Republic of the China, arrives for a brief visit.
A. Al-Mutair, president of the Kuwait National Petroleum Corporation, arrives for a week's visit.
The Executive Yuan renames the North-South Freeway the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Expressway.
26. John Miller, public relations director of Ford Asia-Pacific Inc. in Melbourne, Australia, arrives for a three-day visit.
David Dean, chairman of the board of trustees of the American Institute in Taiwan, arrives for a week's visit.
Col. Hadley Thompson, chief of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group in the Republic of China, leaves Taipei.
27. Y.T. Wong, vice minister of economic affairs, leaves for the United States for a two-week visit.
President Chiang Ching-kuo receives 11 religious leaders and urges them to work for the harmony, stability and progress of society.
E. F. Ellen, president of the International Association of Airport and Seaport Police, arrives for a week's visit.
28. Rear Adm. James Lindner, commander of the U.S. Taiwan Defense Command, leaves Taiwan, terminating a 28-year American military presence on the island.
29. President Chiang Ching-kuo visits coastal areas of northeastern Taiwan to check on construction of fishing ports and villages.
Dr. Diosdado M. Yap, long-time Philippines correspondent in Washington, arrives on a fact-finding visit.
30. Hideo Bo, president of the Japanese Dietmen's Council on Republic of China Relations, arrives for a six-day visit.
A 20-member economic mission from the Republic of Paraguay, led by the minister of industry and commerce, Dr. Delfin Ugarte Centurion, arrives for a five-day visit.
Maj. Gen. Gonzalez Ravetti, air force commander-in-chief of Paraguay, arrives for a six-day visit.
May 1. Labor Day is marked at a Taipei rally of some 2,000 labor representatives, government officials and foreign guests.
2. K.T. Li and Prof. Chen Chi-lu, both ministers of state, leave for the United States to attend the Conference on Sino-American Cooperation in Humanities and Social Sciences.
3. Nobutaka Shikanai, publisher of the Sankei Shimbun in Tokyo, and Masazumi Asano, president of the Fuji Telecasting Company Ltd., arrive for a three-day visit.
Prince Turki Ben Saud of Saudi Arabia arrives for a week's visit.
5. President Chiang Ching-kuo inspects the site of the Third Nuclear Power Plant at Pingtung in southern Taiwan and talks to workers.
Robert F. Six, chairman of Continental Airlines, arrives for a six-day visit.
6. A garden party at Taipei New Park marks the Year of the Child.
Miss Laurie Yee, Miss Chinatown Hawaii 1979, and Miss Deborah Lau, Miss Goodwill of Hawaii 1979, arrive for a week's visit.
7. Minister of Agriculture, Cooperation and Marketing Affairs M.N. Lerotholi of the Kingdom of Lesotho arrives for a seven-day visit.
9. A delegation of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education of the United States arrives for a week's visit.
An 18-member Japanese delegation arrives to attend the Ninth International Rubber Footwear Conference.
10. An overseas Chinese troop-entertaining group of women led by Miss Cheng Ching-yun arrives for a two-week visit.
An eight-member delegation of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea led by Park Suk Hyun arrives for a six-day visit.