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...famous Whampoa Military Academy in the '20s still serves his chief with conspicuous devotion. Last week, to instill discipline and order in a government that has lost much authority through parliamentary squabbling and faltering leadership, the President accepted the resignation of respected but ailing Banker-Premier O. K. Yui and named as Premier his tested old troubleshooter, Vice President Chen Cheng...
Four times between March and December last year the Control Yuan, Nationalist China's legislative watchdog body, summoned Premier O.K. Yui to come before the Yuan to answer charges of waste in 15 government agencies. Four times Yui refused. When Yui rejected a fifth summons on the ground that, under the constitution, he does not have to answer to the Control Yuan, the legislators' pent-up frustration exploded. The Control Yuan formally voted to impeach the Premier...
Named Premier in 1954, chubby, talkative O.K. Yui has built a reputation for personal honesty and integrity. The vote did appear to have been aimed less at Yui personally than at the Kuomintang Party's tight control of government affairs. Last week, as Yui's Cabinet approved the draft of the defense that he must submit to the Judicial Yuan for a ruling in the case, the Kuomintang's Central Daily News loftily pronounced the impeachment "meaningless and without value...
...Formosa. Awaiting them was a heroes' welcome and the promise of jobs from the Nationalist government. But to the men who had been on the cruise of the Pak Tang, this prospect, while gratifying, was almost unnecessary. "I'm satisfied just being here," said ex-Colonel Yui Teh Hsiu, once the commander of a Nationalist regiment. "We agreed among ourselves that if we failed we would all jump overboard...
...negative pressure of refusing armed assistance in holding it). Only a few days before the withdrawal, a high Nationalist spokesman had announced that Nanchi would be defended in battle and its soldiers would not surrender one inch of territory. Last week, admitting the evacuation, Nationalist Premier O. K. Yui told the Legislative Yuan that Matsu and Quemoy would be held for a "fight to the death...