Word: formosae
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...President Eisenhower's talks with Nikita Khrushchev, might be backing away from any of the basic principles that have guided its foreign policy, Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon last week had a stern message to deliver about at least one troublous area: Red China and Formosa. His speech, delivered in Manhattan at the twelfth annual conference of the Far East-America Council of Commerce and Industry, came against the background of Red China's saber-rattling tenth anniversary fete fortnight ago, when Communist Defense Minister Lin Piao, with Khrushchev on hand, condemned the U.S., proclaimed that...
...immediate concern to Communist China is Formosa, but, Dillon said, "There can be no glossing over the danger that an attempt to seize Taiwan and the offshore islands is just as likely to embroil the world community in total war as is the launching of any other type of war. There can be no exceptions in the matter of peaceful settlement of disputes . . . We earnestly hope Peking will see the light...
...delegates to the annual regional conference of the World Health Organization in Formosa last week, a must on the agenda was a side trip to a cluster of laboratories in Taipei. The labs are the headquarters of a far-ranging, little-publicized U.S. Navy unit known as Namru-2 (for Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2). What the delegates saw of Namru-2's work was so impressive that they later passed a resolution to accept the unit's standing offer of emergency help in epidemics among Asia's civilian population. As most of the delegates well...
...spot study in a 50-sq. mi. section of Formosa's west coast to find the source of ''blackfoot," a locally common arterial disease that causes fingers and toes to become gangrenous; sometimes the victim loses both hands and feet...
...Research on schistosomes. parasites that attack the intestinal tracts of workers in irrigated fields throughout most of Africa and Asia, but on Formosa mainly assail animals. Namru-2 wants to know...