Word: formosae
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...solitary as Hemingway heroes. The questions -- posed by a distinguished panel of journalists to reassure viewers that nothing was rigged -- demanded both a detailed knowledge of government programs (farm subsidies and the Tennessee Valley Authority) and a travel writer's mastery of obscure foreign locales (Ghana, Laos and Formosa...
...from Indochina." He handed it to the envoys on Nov. 26, the day Nagumo's fleet left Hitokappu Bay for Pearl Harbor. Hull did not know that, since the fleet was under total radio silence, but he did know from intercepted messages that another Japanese war fleet had passed Formosa on its way toward Indochina or Malaya. "We must all prepare for real trouble, possibly soon," Roosevelt cabled Churchill...
...Chiang Ching-kuo was finally allowed to return home after twelve years in the Soviet Union. He served in a succession of government posts, and in 1949 joined his father and 2 million other mainlanders in a mass retreat across the Formosa Strait after the Communists seized power in Beijing. Chiang Ching-kuo then presided over a political-warfare department that policed the island against mainland infiltrators and waged propaganda campaigns against the Communists...
...nation's vacation and retirement capital to an international metropolis with a predominantly Latin beat. In a sense, its modern founder is Fidel Castro, whose Marxist revolution forced tens of thousands of rich and middle-class Cubans to flee to Florida. Like the Nationalist Chinese who retreated to Formosa, Miami's Cubans expected to return home but stayed to capitalize on their skills and energies. Another similarity to their Oriental counterparts is an active anti-Communism that has attracted steady U.S. Government support. According to the author, during the 1960s the CIA maintained its largest station in Miami...
...most the Nationalists could hope to fall back, into the vast reaches of south China and onto the island of Formosa. But barring a miracle, they had no prospect of stopping the Red tide...