Word: formosae
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...four-point plan for an international treaty renouncing the use of force to settle territorial disputes. Since the letter amounted to little more than what the United Nations Charter already included and contained a fistful of jokers in addition (limiting the West's ability to defend Berlin, surrendering Formosa to Red China), U.S. officials showed considerable restraint when they merely characterized the plan as "disappointing" and "nonobjective...
...political reasons. One promise made by Diem's successors was to appoint aggressive new commanders and give them a free hand. Last week the first such new commander found him self sacked and ordered to a desk exile that even Diem had not thought of-military attache in Formosa...
...Halepule Opio's congregation pays its fair share of Holy Nativity's utility bills, runs its own dances and athletic events, sponsors its own charitable campaigns for overseas missions. Last year it raised $1,250 to help buy a fishing boat for a village in Formosa. So far, Father Minuth or his rector has presided at all the services, but Minuth would like to get his bishop's permission for some of his parishioners to try their hand at delivering the Sunday sermons...
Chin, a graduate student in international law, thought that if China had to be admitted at all, it should be under a "two China" scheme. He admitted, though, that this doesn't appear feasible now - both because of Red China's refusal to recognize Formosa's independent existence on any terms and because of Nationalist China's expected refusal to yield her Security Council seat...
...Chinese may be a long way from building an atom bomb, but their antiaircraft techniques appear effective enough. Last year they shot down a Nationalist U-2 reconnaissance plane, one of a pair sold to Formosa by the U.S. in 1960. Last week, on the day after Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's 76th birthday, Peking announced that it had shot down the other U-2 over the mainland...