Word: formosae
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...favorite for the vice-presidency; months later, Chiang stepped aside to let Li have a chance at seeking peace with the Communists, then within sight of total victory. When Nationalist resistance collapsed, Li, a longtime critic of the Chiang regime, fled to the U.S., rather than Chiang's Formosa refuge...
...month Li sold his house in Englewood, N.J., told friends he was going to Switzerland to be with his wife who was recovering from a cancer operation. He went to Switzerland, all right-then kept going east. At Peking Airport, he renounced his "guilty past," urged his colleagues on Formosa to "return to the embrace of the mother land" and create a new united front-this time against the "wolfish ambition...
Even with the new planes, says President Nguyen Van Khai, 60, "we are short of planes, short of pilots and short of space." Air Viet has obtained Chinese crews along with the planes from Formosa, started to hire U.S. civilian pilots, and persuaded the Saigon government to lend it the part-time services of four Vietnamese Air Force C-47 pilots. Of course, the shortages could quickly end if peace came to the country. Unlikely as that seems in the foreseeable future, the company fears being caught with excess capacity, hence the cautious policy of chartering rather than buying planes...
...against Communist China with little or no damage to the real enemy, and we are killing a lot of women and children. The idea that the free world would interpret withdrawal as giving up the fight is nonsense. Asian Communism can be contained from a number of bases, including Formosa, Japan, the Philippines and Pakistan...
Chinese used their U.S. dollars that Washington last week announced the end of the banquet. The cut-off of economic assistance to Formosa will mark the first time that any U.S. aid program in any underdeveloped nation has accomplished its ultimate aim-which is, after all, to put itself out of business...