He served in the Apostolic Internunciature at Taipei 20 years ago.
Nineteen top Chinese golfers, including Melbourne World Cup Champions Lu Liang-huan and M. N. Hsieh, leave for Manila for the first tournament on the Asian circuit.
U.S. Army Assistant Secretary Eugene E. Berg and a party of 12 arrive for a two-day visit.
12. Chang Kwang-shih, vice minister of economic affairs, returns from Saudi Arabia.
Chang signed a memorandum of economic cooperation in Riyadh.
Raimundo Guerrero, chairman of the World Anti-Communist League, arrives for a visit.
13. Chang Da-chien, a maestro of Chinese painting, leaves for home in Brazil after a three-week stay.
14. A 6-member Jordanian trade mission led by S.A. Matouk, president of the Amman Chamber of Commerce, arrives for a week's visit.
Commissioner W. Stanley Cottrill, international secretary of the Salvation Army International Headquarters, leaves after three-day visit.
15. The Chinese Petroleum Corporation signs an onshore oil exploration agreement with two Philippine corporations.
Arthur Pothuije, director of the new U.S. Trade Center in Taipei, arrives with his wife.
Sheikh Mohammed Aba Al-Khail, Saudi Arabian minister of state for finance and national economy, arrives for talks on economic cooperation.
17. Venezuelan Senator Dr. Enrique Tejera Paris arrives for a five-day visit.
18. U.S. Representatives William S. Broomfield (Rep.-Michigan) and Clement J. Zablocki (Dem. Wisconsin) arrive for a three-day private visit.
19. The presiding bishop of the American Episcopal Church, the Most Rev. John Hines, arrives for the Thanksgiving and Holy Communion Service on the 20th Anniversary of the Taiwan Episcopal Church.
20. A six-man South Korean Par liamentary Mission led by Oh Joon Suk arrives for a six-day visit.
Wu Kwan-hsiung, secretary-general of the China External Trade Development Council, leaves for New York on a business trip.
21. Swaziland Vice Prime Minister Z.A. Khumalo arrives here for a week's visit.
The Buenos Aires University Club rugby team, champions of South America, arrives for a five-day visit and two games.
22. Minister of Finance K.T. Li, Minister of Economic Affairs Y.S. Sun and Sheik Mohammed Aba Al-Khail, Saudi Arabian minister of finance and national economy, issue a joint communique on financial and economic cooperation.
23. Chen Lan-kao, president of the Taiwan Power Company, returns from the United States.
He negotiated loans with the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which has agreed in principle to loan U.S.$498 million for construction of Taipower's third nuclear power plant.
24. Gen. Hsu Huan-sheng board chairman of China Airlines, leaves for Guam to study airline facilities there.
25. The Legislative Yuan holds the 1st meeting of its 53rd session.
Premier Chiang Ching-kuo de livered his oral administrative report.
Moses Shapiro, board chairman of General Instrument Corporation, arrives for a five-day visit.
26. Fernando Fournier, former Costa Rican foreign minister, arrives for a four-day visit.
Members of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers arrive for their 1974 conference in Taipei.
27. Dr. Ernest Meyer, director of the International Press Institute, arrives for a three-day visit.
Hu Hsin is named ambassador to Paraguay to succeed Hu Shih-hsun.
Osamu Itagaki, president of the Sino-Japan Interchange Association, arrives for talks on ROC Japan civil aviation relations.
March. 1. Wu Kwan-hsiung, secretary-general of the China External Trade Development Council, returns from the United States.
3. Dr. Edward Binyah Kesselly, Liberian minister of information, arrives for a five-day visit.
4. Dr. Alawi Darwish Kayyal, Saudi Arabian director of posts, arrives for a ten-day visit.
World Campus Afloat, a shipboard program sponsored by Chapman College of Orange, California, arrives at Keelung for a four-day visit.
Mrs. Anna Chennault, vice president for international affairs of the Flying Tiger Line, arrives from Washington.
5. Dr. Choi Hyung Sup, Korean minister of science and technology, arrives for a five-day visit.
6. A five-month agricultural seminar opens in Tainan.
Twenty-nine specialists from the Central African Republic, Gabon, Swaziland, Liberia, Niger, Ivory Coast, Lesotho, Malawi, the Gambia and the Seychelles participated.
7. Vice President C.K. Yen leaves for Latin America to attend the inaugurations of President Ernefto Geisel of Brazil and President Carlos Anbres Beres of Venezuela.
Accompanied by Mrs. Yen and a party of four, including Vice Foreign Minister H.K. Yang, he was the special envoy of President Chiang Kai-shek.
The 3rd Pacific Area Travel Association Regional Conference opens in Taipei.
More than 20 delegates at tended from Hongkong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and the ROC.
A Sino-Saudi Arabian trade co operation agreement is signed in Taipei by Wu Kuan-hsiung, secretary-general of the China External Trade Development Council, and Saad M. Al-Joajil, president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Eastern Provinces of Saudi Arabia.
9. Osamu ltagaki, president of the Sino-Japan Interchange Association, leaves for Japan.
A Norwegian trade mission headed by P.H. Houge, an official of the Norwegian ministry of industry and commerce, arrives for a three-day visit.
10. Rodolfo Silva Vargas, Costa Rican communications minister, arrives for a five-day visit.
Ralph P. Davidson, publisher of Time, arrives for a brief visit.
Mrs. Anna Chennault leaves for the United States after a six-day visit.