Dr. John Helmick, vice president of the U.S. Educational Test Service Center, arrives for a six-day visit.
The U.S. expert worked with a five-member ad hoc committee in exploring ways to improve the joint entrance examinations for colleges and universities.
17. Wong Yi-ting, director of the Board of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, leaves for Switzerland to attend a Management Science Seminar at Geneva.
Wendell Wyatt, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, arrives for a brief visit.
Five German experts arrive for a two-week study of Taiwan rail electrification.
The finance, economics, transportation and railway engineering experts were from Kredit Fur Wiederaufbau, a West German financial organization.
18. The two-day Sino-Thai trade promotion meeting is closed.
Liu Chieh, former Chinese permanent representative to the United Nations, returns on his way to Manila to become ambassador to the Philippines.
19. Former Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi arrives for a two-day visit.
Acting Thai Economic Minister Prayoon Kanchanadul leaves after a four-day visit.
Prayoon called on Vice President C. K. Yen, Vice Premier Chiang Ching-kuo and other government leaders to exchange views on economic cooperation.
Patrick Walsh, secretary-general of the Canada Chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, arrives for a week's visit.
Walsh is also chairman of the Human Rights Committee of Canada. He attended Freedom Day celebrations and met with WACL Honorary Chairman Dr. Ku Cheng-kang to discuss the anti-Communist movement in Canada.
U.S. Congressman Otto E. Passman, Democrat-Louisiana, arrives for a brief visit.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced: Liu Ho-tu, former ambassador to Sierra Leone, is appointed director of the Information Department; Wu Shih-ying, former ambassador to Iran, is appointed Consul-General in Boston.
21. Senator James Buckley, Republican-New York, arrives for a five-day visit.
Buckley, 49, is a member of the Senate Aeronautics and Space Sciences Committee and Public Works and Air and Water Pollution Subcommittee.
Chow Shu-kai, minister of foreign affairs, returns from a world tour following the nation's withdrawal from the United Nations.
22. Pham Van Dong, chief of the Ministry of Retired Servicemen of the Republic of Vietnam, arrives for a four-day visit to attend the 1972 annual conference of the Republic of China's Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen.
A four-man Dutch goodwill mission led by M. W. Schakel, member of Parliament and mayor of Hornarr, arrives for a week's visit.
23. The nation marks the 18th World Freedom Day.
More than 15,000 people took part in a rally in Taipei to support enslaved peoples in their struggle for freedom. Dr. Ku Cheng-kang, honorary president of the World Anti-Communist League, presided.
A 10-member New Zealand Youth mission arrives for a two-week visit.
David R. Pogue, Pacific area president of the U.S. Veterans of the Foreign Wars, and Kim Il Hwan, president of the Korean Veterans' Association, arrive to attend the annual meeting of the Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen.
24. The four-day annual meeting of the Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen is opened in Taipei.
T. Y. Chao, VACRS chairman, presided over the opening session. A total of 481 VACRS officials attended. The meeting reviewed VACRS operations and worked out plans for the future.
Chen Lih-fu, senior adviser to President Chiang Kai-shek, returns from the United States.
25. Gen. Suh Jong Chul, chief of staff of the South Korean Army, arrives for a four-day visit.
Guy Marchand, Mauritian minister of industry and commerce, arrives for a brief visit.
Marchand came to interest Chinese entrepreneurs in investing in his country.
26. Economic Minister Sun Yun-suan leaves for Bangkok to attend a ministerial meeting for Sino-Thai economic cooperation.
The Tourism Bureau of the Communications Ministry announced 540,000 tourists visited Taiwan last year, an increase of 14.3 per cent over 1970.
27. U.S. Representative Lester Wolff arrives for a three-day visit.
A five-member Japanese economic mission arrives for a week's visit at the invitation of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the Council for International Economic Cooperation and Development.
29. Yu Kuo-hwa, governor of the Central Bank of China, leaves for Washington to attend President Nixon's breakfast meeting with U.S. Congressional leaders.
30. Outgoing Japanese Ambassador Osamu Itagaki leaves for home after two years and eight months of service.
Dr. Ku Yu-hsiu, a delegate to the National Assembly, returns from the United States to attend the Assembly's fifth plenary session opening February 20.
M. A. Cancelliere, chairman of the Western Pennsylvania National Bank, and Robert H. Miller, assistant vice president, arrive for a five-day visit.
31. F. S. Brill and Arthur E. Bush, volunteer executives of the International Executive Service Corps, arrive.
Brill will serve the Tatung Engineering Company. Bush will be with the Energy Policy Commission of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
February 1. A five-member goodwill mission from the Japanese Committee on Support for the Republic of China arrives for a week's visit at the invitation of the Chinese government.
2. New Ambassador to Gambia Sun Mei-sheng leaves to assume office.
Three mayors from the Philippines, Daud Ali of Baloi, Victorio Dy of Maigo and Recardo Bliss, arrive for a four-day visit.
3. Japanese Senator Otake Heihachiro arrives for a five-day official visit.
Lt. Gen. Thomas Armando Sanchez de Bustamante, commanding general of the I Corps of the Argentine Army, arrives for a to-day visit.
4. Maj. Sylvio de Maglhaes Padilha, president of the Brazilian Olympic Committee, leaves after a three-day visit.
A group of four International Olympic Committee members and two Brazilian reporters arrives for a two-day visit.
5. Raymond J. Goodman, director of the East Asian and Pacific Department of the World Bank, arrives for a four-day visit.
6. Four Japanese news commentators arrive for a five-day visit.
8. C. Lanes S. Cross, a New Zealand member of the International Olympic Committee, arrives for a two-day visit. Saburo Ohta, president of the Japan National Tourist Organization, arrives for a three-day visit.
A 30-member trade mission led by Governor Tom McCall of Oregon arrives for a two-day visit.
The mission explored possibilities of expanding trade. McCall and his group called on Chinese government officials and met with leading businessmen. Members of the trade mission included Irvin Mann, state director of agriculture and Jay Glatt, a specialist in agricultural trade development.
10. Dr. Giorgio de Stefani, member of the International Olympic Committee, arrives for a three-day visit.
The Italian sports leader was elected IOC member in 1951 and executive member from 1964 through 1968. He formerly was the president of the International Lawn Tennis Association.
Members of the National Assembly begin registration for participation in the fifth plenary session.
Pan Chi-wu, director of the Yangmingshan Administration, dies of gastric cancer.
11. Taipei announces the city population totaled 1,839,640 at the end of last year, an increase of 70,072 over the end of 1970.
Lt. Gen. L. L. Metzer, commanding general of the U.S. Third Marine Amphibious Force, arrives for a three-day visit.
12. William Wei, director of industry of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, returns from a four-day tour of Guam.
Wei visited Guam as head of an eight-man goodwill mission. He exchanged views with Governor Carlos G. Camacho and other government leaders on problems concerning economic cooperation. He said Guam offers tax holidays and other privileges to Chinese investors.
13. Australian Ambassador Hugh Alexander Dunn returns to Taipei after a two-month stay in Australia.
Dr. Lee C. Teng, a Chinese nuclear scientist in the United States, arrives for a week's visit.
Teng is a senior nuclear scientist at the National Argonne Laboratory. He came here as a short-term visiting scientist under the Sino-U.S. Cooperative Science Program.
Koh Jae Il, director of the Monopoly Bureau of the Republic of Korea, arrives for a four-day visit.
14. The tourism industry of the Republic of China earned US$110 million in 1971.