Word: chuan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...largest outfit is the tactical airlift wing at Ching Chuan Kang, made up of about 4,500 men and four airlift squadrons with a total authorized capacity of 64 Hercules C-130 aircraft, used to transport troops, medical evacuees and heavy equipment. There are also about 1,300 men headquartered at Shu Lin Kou Air Station and a detachment of two F-4 Phantoms at Tainan. Nuclear weapons locations are, of course, among the most highly classified secrets, but it is almost certain that there are none on Taiwan...
...shek's 80-year-old secretary visited the Ivory Coast, President Félix Houphouet-Boigny asked how a man of his age managed to appear to be fit and 50. It was easy, replied the secretary, for one who practiced the ancient Chinese sport of tai chi chuan, or shadowboxing. Houphouet-Boigny, 64, wasted no time in hiring a Taiwanese master named Kwang to teach him the sport's 108 movements. Kwang claims that his charge has not had a sick day since, and he adds, quickly hiding his spectacles, that the President can read without...