Premier Sun Yun-suan attends the First Annual Elementary and High School Teachers Self-reliance and Patriotic Seminar at Chinshan Youth Activity Center in Taipei.
12. Memorial services for the Rev. Raymond DeJaegher are held at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Cathedral in Taipei.
President Chiang Ching-kuo calls on Li Feng-ming, the magistrate of Ilan county, to inquire about administration.
13. A goodwill mission of the Los Angeles City Council led by Vice Speaker Joe Wachs and the chairman of the Sister City Committee, Jack Mannion, calls on the Evergreen Marine Corporation.
President Chiang Ching-kuo makes telephone calls to magistrates of Hualien, Kaohsiung, Taitung and Chiayi Counties to wish them and residents a happy Chinese New Year.
14. Kaohsiung County Magistrate Huang You-jen visits the Liokuei Orphanage to convey President Chiang Ching-kuo's concern.
Msgr. Paul Shan, 57, a native of Hopei, assumes office as bishop of Hualien.
16. The Chinese Lunar New Year is celebrated in traditional fashion.
The Taiwan Provincial Government holds a national flag raising ceremony with the nearly 10,000 people residing at Chung Hsing New Village participating.
17. A 145-member U.S. delegation from business and industry arrives for a seven-day visit.
18. Twenty-five tourism industry leaders from the Pacific Area Travel Association Southern California Chapter come to Taipei for their out-of-the-country meeting.
19. Dr. Herbert C. Brown, winner of 1979 Nobel Prize for chemistry, arrives for a three-week visit. To enjoy the Chinese New Year season, 150 American business executives and their wives travel to Taipei.
20. Dr. Ali Ashid, director general of the Central Department of Statistics of the Ministry of Finance and National Economy of Saudi Arabia, arrives for a three-day visit.
At a post-New Year's Day meeting of the Kuomintang Central Standing Committee, President Chiang Ching-kuo calls upon the nation to strengthen unity and make greater efforts to build a unified new China based on the Three Principles of the People.
21. The Kuomintang Committee for Overseas Affairs gives a reception for overseas Chinese representatives in Taiwan for the Lunar New Year.
James E. Akins, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, arrives in Taipei for a four-day visit.
Eleven Chinese college students led by Hsu Kang-tsung, chief of the Overseas Section of the China Youth Corps, leave for Saudi Arabia for a week's visit.
A reception is held at the Grand Hotel in Taipei to mark resumption of the Taipei-Ryukyus route of China Airlines.
22. Premier Sun Yun-suan makes his oral report on administration as the Legislative Yuan opens its 65th session.
23. More than 100 principals of private and government high schools in Taipei attend a Self-Reliance Seminar sponsored by the China Youth Corps.
Journalists headed by Shih Yung-kuei, chairman of the Taipei Press Club, visit Kinmen to deliver greetings and respects to servicemen.
The 18-man Olympic team barred from the Lake Placid Winter Games returns to Taipei.
24. Mao Yin-tsu, director-general of the Civil Aeronautics Administration of the Ministry of Communications, and Michael Wong, vice president of China Airlines, leave for South Africa on a visit.
William Reece Smith Jr. and a 17 other members of an American Bar Association group arrive for an eight-day visit.
25. A two-week international marketing seminar for senior officials sponsored by the Board of Foreign Trade opens at the Center for Public and Business Administration Education in Taipei.
26. A six-member French parliamentary mission headed by Robert-Andre Vivian arrives for a three-day visit.
The Central Bank issues NT$ bills with face values of $1,000 and $500.
A government-sponsored seminar for movie personalities opens with an address by Dr. James Soong, director general of the Government Information Office.
27. Nine American journalists headed by Ms. Shemanski of the Travel Agent Magazine arrive for a week's visit.
Francisco Anselmo Guzman Acosta, the Dominican ambassador, gives a reception to mark his country's independence day.
28. The mother and twin daughters of Lin Yi-hsiung, one of the defendants in the Kaohsiung incident, are found murdered in their Taipei home.
The Military Judicial Department of the Taiwan Garrison Command convenes an investigation court attended by the 14 defense attorneys of eight persons indicted in the Kaohsiung incident.
Mar. 1. Varied activities mark Lantern Festival and Tourism Day in Taiwan.
2. The College of Chinese culture marks its 18th anniversary. General Marco Aurelio Subia Martinez, Ecuador minister of defense, arrives for a six-day visit.
The Yen Clan Association honors its illustrious ancestor, Yen Hui, one of the 72 leading disciples of Confucius, on the 2499th anniversary of his birth.
3. Yu Peng, newly appointed ambassador to Honduras, is sworn in.
A memorial service for veteran diplomat Tuan Mao-lan is held at the Grace Lutheran Church in Taipei.
4. President Chiang Ching-kuo announces he has asked Dr. Ku Cheng-kang, Lien Cheng-tung, Chang Chi-yun and Chang Pao-shu to serve as his senior advisers.
5. Thousands of Scouts attend a rally to celebrate Boy Scout Day.
Students of National Taiwan Normal University open a fund-raising drive to buy national flags for distribution to Chinese students studying abroad.
6. Provincial Assemblyman Lin Yi-hsiung and his wife speak out in an open letter to express their thanks to President Chiang Ching-kuo and the people for sympathy in the murders of three members of their family.
8. Vice President Shieh Tung-min visits Hsinchu County to meet Magistrate Lin Pao-yen and inspect the food industry.
Dr. J.G. Affleck, chairman of the American Cyanamid Company of the United States, is received by Premier Y.S. Sun.
Pi Chun-hui, a track athlete wounded by an unidentified gunman in Manila, returns home.
9. Lu Hsi-chuen wins the 16th Thailand Open Golf Championship.
George E. Rothell, president and chief operating officer of the United California Bank, arrives for a visit.
Premier Sun Yun-suan leaves for visits to four friendly nations in Africa: South Africa, Malawi, Lesotho and Swaziland.
Accompanying Premier Sun were K.T. Li, minister of state; Lin Chin-sheng, minister of communications; Admiral Soong Chang-chih, chief of the general staff; Wong Yi-ting, vice minister of economic affairs; Edward Y. Kuan, vice minister of foreign affairs; and James Chu-yul Soong, director general of the Government Information Office. President Chiang Ching-kuo authorizes Vice Premier Hsu Ching-chung to assume the duties of Premier for the two-week period.
The Seventh Annual Young People's National Watercolor Landscape Exhibition is held at Youth Park in Taipei.
The Second National Kinshan Marathon is held along the north coast.
Dr. Kim Duk Choong, chairman of South Korea's Daewoo industrial group, arrives for a three-day visit.
President Chiang Ching-kuo greets Wang Shih-chieh, one of his senior political advisers, on Wang's 90th birthday.
10. Marking the 21st anniversary of the Tibetan uprising, Tibetans and national leaders meet at the Shantao Temple in Taipei.
Jose Zegarra Cerruto, speaker of the Bolivian House of Representatives, arrives for a seven-day visit.
Representatives of the Ministry of National Defense and Taipei City sign an agreement on construction of 1,098 apartments for servicemen and city workers on the site of present one-story military housing.