Taiwan Today

Aug. 12. Premier Sun Yun-suan receives U.S. columnist Victor Riesel, in Taiwan on a 10-day visit. The Control Yuan confirms Liu Chi-hung as president and Chang Tsung-liang as vice president of the Examination Yuan. Taiwan's fastest electrified train -­ the Tzu Chiang Express - makes a test run between Taipei and Taichung. 13. Vice President Shieh Tung-min inspects the Kung Hsueh She motorcycle factory at Chungli city in Taoyuan county. 14. President Chiang Ching-kuo is among more than 2,500 persons attending a requiem mass for Pope Paul VI at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall. 15. President Chiang Ching-kuo attends a garden party in honor of participants in the 1978 National Reconstruction Seminar. Premier Y.S. Sun addressed the closing session of the seminar. The Third International Youth Recreation Tour to the Republic of China opens with 140 delegates from 27 nations participating. 16. Ten outstanding farmers, one of them a woman, are cited by the ROC Chapter of Kiwanis In­ternational. Wang Kuang-ya, secretary general of the Sino-Korean Cultural Foun­dation, and Kao Chung-hsin, member of the board of directors, receive honorary membership in the Pacific Cultural Foundation in Taipei. Paul Cardinal Yupin, 77, dies of a heart attack in Rome, where he had gone for the funeral of Pope Paul VI and the election of a new pontiff. 17. U.S. Senator James O. Eastland arrives for a four-day visit. A seven-man U.S. delegation ar­rives for the second round of trade talks. 18. Cardinals Eduardo Pironio, Argentina; Bernardin Gantin, Benin; and Mario Luigi Ciappi, Italy, celebrate the requiem mass for Chinese Cardinal Paul Yupin in Rome. 19. Premier Y.S. Sun visits Suao Port construction and the Suao­-Hualien Railroad project. Shu Shien-siu, chairman of the National Science Council, returns from a month's lecture tour of the United States. 20. Dr. J. Davis Singer, professor of political science at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, arrives for a five-day visit at the invitation of the Chinese Political Science Association. 21. Kebambaye, Senegalese mem­ber of the International Olympic Committee, arrives for an eight­-day visit. A 22-member U.S. Democratic National Committee delegation arrives for a nine-day visit. A three-day symposium on aquatic environment research in the Pacific region opens at the Aca­demia Sinica in Taipei. The 1978 Higher Civil Service Examination draws 65 per cent of the 20,357 persons who registered. Second Vice President of the Re­public of Costa Rica Jose Miguel Alfaro Rodriguez arrives for a six-day visit. 22. President Chiang Ching-kuo invites businessmen to a discus­sion meeting at the Presidential Office. 23. The 20th anniversary of the Battle of Kinmen is marked. Saturation shelling of the off­shore islands was repulsed and an attempt to invade Taiwan averted. President Chiang Ching-kuo and Premier Y.S. Sun express condolences at the death of President Nicolaas Diederichs with visits to the Embassy of South Africa. Archbishop Edward Cassidy, ambassador of the Holy See to the Republic of China, arrives to at­tend a requiem mass for Paul Cardinal Yupin. 24. Francis Sanford, vice presi­dent of the Government Council of French Polynesia, arrives for a seven-day visit. Richard Walker, president of the Institute of International Rela­tions of the University of South Carolina, arrives for a four-day visit. 25. Ding Mou-shih, director general of the Government Informa­tion Office, leaves for the United States on a visit. The Ministry of Education names Kuo Wei-fan president of National Taiwan Normal University to succeed Chang Tsung-liang, who became vice president of the Examination Yuan. Requiem mass is celebrated for Cardinal Paul Yupin at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei. President Chiang Ching-kuo decorates Jose Miguel Alfaro Rodri­guez, vice president of the Re­public of Costa Rica, for outstanding contributions to interna­tional justice and world peace. 27. Dr. Han Lih-wu, general secretary of the Asian Peoples' Anti­-Communist League, arrives in Seoul for a week's visit. A 28-member delegation led by Liu Chuan-kuan, deputy director of the Industrial Development Bureau, leaves for Seoul to attend a meeting on small and medium enterprises. Ma Jui-hsueh, poet, novelist and daughter of Ma Si-tsung, famed violinist who fled the Chinese mainland several years ago, arrives for a two-week visit. President Chiang Ching-kuo inspects the Tainan area and attends a ceremony commemorating the 354th birthday of Koxinga, Ming dynasty hero who fought the Manchus from Taiwan. 28. Chinese Big Leaguers and Senior Leaguers return home from world championship baseball per­formances in the United States. A Kuomintang mission led by Lien Chan, deputy secretary general of the Central Committee, leaves for South Korea on a week's visit. Yang Liang-kung, 82, former presi­dent of the Examination Yuan, is appointed senior adviser to President Chiang Ching-kuo. 29. The third Sino-Japanese Economic and Trade Conference is held. President of the Examination Yuan Liu Chi-hung and Vice Presi­dent Chang Tsung-liang take the oath of office at the Presidential Office. 31. Sixteen secretaries of Japanese Upper House members led by Chungia Sugiyama arrive for a four-day visit. Vice Admiral Sylvester R. Foley Jr., commander of the U.S. Sev­enth Fleet, arrives for a six-day visit. Economic Vice Minister C.C. Yang and Dr. Mansur Aba Husayn, dep­uty minister of agriculture and water of Saudi Arabia, sign an agreement under which some 40 Chinese technicians will go to Saudi Arabia for two years. Sept. 1. The 35th Journalists' Day is celebrated at the Taipei City Auditorium with James Wei, chairman of the Taipei Journalists' Association, presiding. 3. President Chiang Ching-kuo presides over a ceremony in mem­ory of national martyrs attended by their survivors and others. Bernardo M. Cremades, professor of international business law at the University of Madrid, and Richard Swetenham, legal attache, Court of Arbitration, Interna­tional Chamber of Commerce, ar­rive to lead an ICC-sponsored seminar on arbitration. The nation marks Armed Forces Day with a rally to honor outstanding servicemen. 4. Lionel J. Wilson, mayor of Oakland, California, arrives for a week's visit as the guest of Taipei's Mayor Lee Teng-hui. The Pingkuang Little League team from Pingtung in southern Taiwan returns home after winning the world title at Williamsport, Pa. 5. George Kasakau, premier of New Hebrides, arrives with three others for an eight-day visit. Dr. Ku Cheng-kang, honorary chairman of the World Anti-Com­munist League, returns from the 14th General Assembly of the Asian Parliamentarians' Union in the Republic of Nauru. 9. General Ho Ying-chin lays a wreath at the Martyrs Shrine to mark the 33rd anniversary of the surrender of Japanese forces in China. Dr. David Rowe, professor emeri­tus of Yale University, and Dr. John Chamberlain, an American writer, arrive for an eight-day visit. A.W. Clausen, president of the Bank of America, arrives on a four-day visit. 10. U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of China Leonard Unger visits Pingtung county accompanied by Dr. Robert Lee, chair­man of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction. A rally is held at the Taipei Physical Education College's stadium to mark Sports Day. A 22-member goodwill mission of the Japanese Diet, including former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, arrives for a two-day visit. The Fourth Conference of the Asian and Pacific Real Estate Association opens at the Chungshan Building on Yangmingshan. Chow Shu-kai, ambassador to the Vatican, returns home for consultations.