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...necessary precaution, Chiang sought a Vice President who could take on more of his administrative and diplomatic burdens and take over interim control of the country if he died in office. His choice was balding, Western-educated Premier Yen Chia-kan, 61, a vigorous administrator and the author of many of Formosa's dramatic economic reforms-and yet, surprisingly, a controversial figure in the Kuomintang. Unlike most Nationalist leaders, Yen is neither a military man nor a faithful party professional; he is even accused of being ill informed about Kuomintang "party history." So wary of him is the party...
...case, Yen will be no more than an interim leader. The real power of the Kuomintang is now held by Chiang's eldest son, General Chiang Ching-kuo, 56, who is destined to take over eventually from his father...
...Italian, Frenchman and Briton, its 450-man headquarters staff will comprise many nationalities. Already Jersey has an advance task force in London made up of Italians shopping for homes for Italian executives, Frenchmen seeking out French schools and shops, Americans finding American quarters. "We consider Esso Europe an interim step," says Nicholas J. Campbell Jr., 50, who resigned from Jersey's main board to run the new company, "in getting Europeans to leave their own countries and work for Jersey on a worldwide basis...
...Zetterling, a former Swedish film star who apparently intends to raise all kinds of hell on the other side of the camera. She begins by corralling three young women in a Stockholm maternity hospital and ends with a long, joyless look at a squalling baby. In the interim, she pours scorn over all the corrupt, vain, stupid and ineffectual males who have brought her heroines to grief...
...typical Sunday in the New York Times. The lead editorial urged limitation of U.S. forces in Viet Nam and endorsed the idea of "an interim national government acceptable to both sides." Columnist James Reston, also questioning U.S. policy in Viet Nam, brooded over the "gap between the evangelical rhetoric of official Washington and the political realities of the world." The lead letter in the letters-to-the-editor column, written by an assistant professor of humanities, excoriated the U.S. Government for its "blind antiCommunism" and detected a "nascent war psychosis" in the American public...