Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CENTER of the new prosperity is Taipei, a city of open sewers and closed minds. Taipei's International Airport is the main entrance from the outside world. The jets land, and taxi past ancient anti aircraft guns, past USAF cargo planes and the prop planes of the tiny Asian airlines...
...airport is new and efficient, if small. It was built to handle the growing flow of tourists; formerly, they were U.S. Gls on leave from VietNam, but these days, they are mostly Japanese. The Japanese fly three hours in cramped Boeing 707s-Taipei International Airport can not handle 747s-to escape their crowded, polluted megalopolis for their brief vacations...
...Taipei has another serious problem from the rapid urbanization it has undergone. Few people own private cars, but all companies provide executives with chauttered vehicles and Taipei has the largest number of taxis per capita in the world. The finer points of urban motoring are lost on this horde of new drivers. Traffic is a series of right-hand turns from the left-hand land, and left-hand turns in the face of a charging wall of motorcycles. Massive traffic jams are a new, common problem...
...MOON LAKE is the most beautiful resort on Taiwan. It is two and one half hours by train from Taipei to Laichung, and then another 90 minutes by bus past the farmers and water buffalo, past the hilly country, with their terraced scars of rice paddies and graves, and into the mountains, to the reservoir that was created by joining two lakes...
Even before being sworn in, Whitlam had recalled the Australian Ambassador to Taipei and instructed Canberra's Ambassador to France to start talks with the Chinese in Paris aimed at establishing diplomatic relations with Peking. Now the Australian Ambassador to the United Nations was directed to back moves for a neutralized zone in the Indian Ocean. He was also told to reverse field and support Third World resolutions against white-supremacist Rhodesia. A Rhodesian information of fice in Sydney was ordered shut down. South Africa was told that sporting teams selected along racial lines would not be allowed into...