Word: formosae
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...revolver for the demure Madame Ky, a beauteous former Air Viet Nam stewardess whom he married after the divorce of his first wife. With 4,000 hours' flying time, Ky has only partly succeeded in letting his duties as Premier ground him. On a state visit to Formosa recently, he took time out to try a U.S. F-104 Starfighter, snapping smartly through a linked series of barrel rolls and wingovers. He commutes from his home-a converted office building at Tan Son Nhut Airport-to Gia Long Palace flying his own Alouette helicopter...
...Malaysia has erected high tariff walls against Singapore-made goods. Result: most factories have cut production drastically, are searching for overseas markets to take up the slack. They are plagued by strike-prone unions, face increasingly stiff competition from aggressive and more experienced manufacturers in Hong Kong, Japan and Formosa...
...drank one another's urine to survive. While the ship was still off the Philippines, U.S. bombers blasted it, killing some 300 of the American prisoners. Survivors who swam ashore were hauled by boxcars to Lingayen Gulf and loaded aboard another freighter, which was forced to dock at Formosa with engine trouble. Six days later, U.S. planes bombed the island, killing outright 100 more Americans. In the next three days hundreds of wounded men died for lack of medical attention...
...York. The unnatural split began in 1949, when the Chinese Communists drove the Nationalists off the mainland and onto Formosa. The Communists took over the bank's 245 mainland branches, closed most of them down. Gradually, where governments recognized Peking, the Communists also took over 17 bank branches overseas. The Communist bank has since closed all but its three largest overseas offices. The Nationalists, before leaving the mainland, copied all the bank's records and shipped them to Hong Kong, also transferred bank funds to safekeeping in New York. They have managed to maintain eight branches abroad...
...only change we can visualize is the return of our government to the mainland." The U.S. gave him no encouragement; it opposes any such move as of now. But U.S. officials consider Chiang a capable heir to President Chiang, and they are pleased that the line of succession in Formosa now seems clearly drawn. A power struggle on the island might allow Peking to gain through politics what the Nationalist Army and the U.S. Seventh Fleet have denied it through invasion...