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During the 1980 presidential campaign, Candidate Reagan challenged that bipartisan policy. He said that President Carter had treated Taiwan shabbily, arguing that the U.S. had a continuing obligation to help defend Taiwan. Soon after taking office, Reagan was faced with a request from Taiwan for advanced F-5G jet fighters. Although the President later tried to mollify the Chinese by proposing instead to extend coproduction of the less sophisticated F-5E jets, he irritated Peking by sending Congress a proposal last month to sell $60 million worth of military spare parts to Taiwan...
...China's countervailing demand that all U.S. arms sales to Taiwan cease, the White House tried to split the difference. Taiwan could continue to get the F-5E, which it co-produces with Northrop, but could not have a successor plane, the F-5G, which can carry radar-guided missiles...
...Director William Casey and supported by General David Jones, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Taiwan's current defense needs, they agreed, could be adequately served by additional sales of the F-5E fighter jet it now uses, rather than the new, more powerful F-5G it has been seeking.* The Poland crisis, and the desire for Peking's cooperation in the anti-Soviet propaganda drive, provided an opportunity for these advisers to convince the President that he should deny Taiwan's request for the more sophisticated plane. To placate Taiwan's supporters, conspicuously Reagan...
...Council also selected Michael H. Schwartz, 4G in Social Relations; Michael J. Weins, 3G in Engineering and Applied Physics; and Neil R. Krieger, 5G in Biochemistry, as alternates. Parker said that the alternates woulyd serve on the committee only if one of the six representatives could no longer belong...
...military strong men or the formal device of elections instead of building a political party, the only truly solid political institution. Will the Saigon junta ever allow the creation of a strong political party which can compete with the one organized party in South Vietnam, the NLF? Fox Butterfield, 5G Eric Widner