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DIED. Wang Shih-chieh, 90, Nationalist Chinese lawyer, scholar and leading diplomat, who as Foreign Minister from 1945 to 1948 participated in the peace talks between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung; in Taipei...
Still, the prosecution's evidence at the trial appeared weak as it tried to prove that defendants, under the cover of Formosa, had intentionally provoked violence in Kaohsiung as part of a long-range plan to overthrow the government. Formosa 's publisher, Huang Hsin-chieh, 52, was specifically charged with attempting to smuggle $14,000 worth of baby eels from the mainland for the purpose of financing seditious activities. Huang denied being an eel trafficker, and convincingly argued that his only goal as Formosa 's publisher was to build a legitimate opposition party in Taiwan whose function...
...Chieh-sheng, daughter of famed Marshal Ho Lung by one of his early wives (he has been married nine times), achieved revolutionary fame by denouncing her father as a "despicable swine." She is now an important member of the cultural cadre, boasts that she is closer to Mao than to her own parents...
Indoor Whirlwind. While Florida was still cleaning up its storm damage, another tornado started spinning in Washington, D.C. But this one was manmade, and it whirled with promise. Generated in a laboratory at Catholic University by Chinese-born Dr. Chieh-Chein Chang, head of the university's space sciences department, the indoor twister probably came closer to simulating a real tornado than any other artificial storm ever produced. By carefully analyzing its characteristics, Chang hopes to learn how to build structures that will better withstand the deadly twisters and perhaps point the way toward more accurate prediction and even...
...China's admission to the U.N. was proposed once again by Russia's Valerian Zorin, despite the much-heralded Moscow-Peking split. Said Nationalist Chinese Ambassador Liu Chieh: "World peace is threatened at this very moment by two international bullies, one of them responsible for the grave situation in the Caribbean, and the other on the Indian border; and yet the first has the effrontery to propose that the second should be seated in this organization." Obviously agreeing, the Assembly rejected Red China by 56 to 42, with 12 abstentions, a slightly larger margin than last year...