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...last November to review the nation's military-assistance program, the committee members did some on-the-spot reporting themselves. Chairman Draper, 65, once Army Under Secretary (1947-49) and later top U.S. civilian representative to NATO (1952-53), personally inspected forces in the Korea-Japan-Formosa area. Oilman George Mc-Ghee, 47, an ex-Ambassador, to Turkey (1951-53), and Admiral Arthur Radford, tough-minded ex-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1953-57), toured the Middle East. Operating in five such groups, the committee members returned to Washington, in March handed Ike an interim report warning...
Reopen the Case. In Taipei, Formosa, Suspected Thief Lin Chao-chin protested his innocence until he was caught pilfering a pack of cigarettes from a policeman's desk...
...Most of Formosa's 10 million population are clustered along the island's western coastal plains, in the shadow of mountain ranges from which streams fall precipitously and fan out through dike-guarded channels. The rains started first in the north. Later, in the central part of the island, a record 40 inches of rain fell onto the rocky hills, then raced down in torrents that carried tumbling rocks the size of pumpkins along with them to batter dikes on the plain below. Changhua, a city of 70,000 people, was inundated. At one village near...
...rescue tens of thousands trapped by the floods, and an American aircraft carrier rushed 20 helicopters over from Hong Kong to help save lives and distribute rice. As the waters receded, officials counted about 650 dead, 750 seriously injured, 750 people missing and a quarter million homeless-victims of Formosa's worst floods of the century...
Before flood workers could finish their job, an earthquake struck another part of the island, killing 16, leaving thousands homeless in southern Formosa...