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Across the Formosa Strait, meanwhile, a somewhat better-known woman figured prominently in the Nationalists' celebration of Double Ten Day, marking the Oct. 10, 1911. uprising against the Man-chus. At the offices of Taiwan Television Enterprise. Mme. Chiang Kai-shek pressed a control button with an elegantly gloved finger to inaugurate commercial television on the island. Formosa is starting out with 3,000 sets and four channels, a telling testimonial to the island's prosperity...
...overtook the Big Five with some chilling effects. The unshakable grip that the International Longshoremen's Union won over the islands' agricultural workers forced wages in the pineapple fields up to an average of $1.78 an hour at the very time when low-wage countries, such as Formosa and Malaya, were invading the pineapple market. As a result, Hawaii's share of world pineapple sales fell from 78% in 1952 to 64% in 1960, and it is still slipping. Similarly, high labor costs restricted Hawaiian sugar sales to the protected U.S. market...
...Nationalist Chinese conceded that the plane was one of two that they bought from Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in 1960. It had taken off on a "routine mission" from Formosa's Taoyuan airbase on the day it vanished, but the Nationalists revealed neither the plane's flight plan nor the pilot's identity. Peking, which last July had offered a reward of 8,000 ounces of gold (value $280,000) to any Nationalist pilot who would defect with his U-2 intact, boasted that this one had been "shot down" by an air force unit, but supplied...
...China's braggadocio, he added that a flame-out had forced the U-2 far below its maximum working altitude of above 80,000 ft., enabling the Chinese to shoot it down. The Russian denied that it was shot down by Soviet-supplied ground-to-air missiles, though Formosa's U-2s reportedly fly over an IRBM range on the mainland...
...week's end, Formosa let it be known that it would like a new supply of U-2s. However, President Kennedy said that "we have no plans" to sell U2s to the Chinese Nationalists or to anyone else...