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...ECONOMIC progress that makes such problems possible is mainly the work of Chiang Ching Kuo, the son of the aging President, and one of the few competent leaders in this bastion of opposition to Communism. Ironically, the reforms he has instituted that have turned the economy around smell strongly of socialism...
Invitaiton from the Academy were originally sent to Kuo Mo-Jo, head of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Chinese responded favorably to the invitation in the fail and the trip was arranged...
Chiang Kaishek, Nationalist China's 84-year-old President, seemed aghast when it was first proposed to him that Vice President C.K. Yen, 66, resign his added post of Premier and that the generalissimo name his own son, Chiang Ching-kuo, 62, to fill the vacancy. Would that not, the Gimo demanded, be unseemly? Would it not seem to be the beginning of a dynasty...
Actually, Chiang's demurrers were an expectable bit of Chinese political etiquette. He has, in fact, been carefully grooming his son to take over Taiwan's top job some day. Last week the national assembly routinely confirmed Chiang Ching-kuo as Premier. In that job, nongovernment observers hope, he may have the clout to carry out his promises to 1) attack the bureaucratic inefficiency that has tarnished the island republic's record of progress and prosperity, and 2) bring more native Taiwanese into the government. No one, though, doubts that the generalissimo will still have the final...
...they carried -ran to the firing line shouting "Heighten our vigilance, defend the motherland!" The targets no longer carried the slogan "Defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs," but the children managed to demolish them.anyway. The platoon leader, a 30-year-old factory worker named Kung Wei-kuo, explained that the training was "entirely defensive. We want to mobilize our country old and young. We would not attack first, but we are ready to mobilize to repel any intruders." But who? Americans? Russians? Japanese? Said Kung: "We have to let history tell...