Word: formosae
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...principle of the Anglo-American alliance-collective security-that is popular in Britain, and pointedly applied it to a crisis that is not. "The free world," said Nixon, "could render no greater disservice to the cause of peace than to fail to stand firm as we have in the Formosa Strait against the use of aggressive force...
...SHAN, S.J. Chutung, Formosa...
...million, is increasing by about 15 million a year. At this rate, there will be a billion Chinese by 1980, more than 2 billion by the turn of the century. In terms of per-capita production, Mao's China still lags far behind Japan or Formosa (see chart). Worse yet, despite mammoth irrigation and reclamation projects, population growth has cut the amount of cultivated land per person in Red China from .462 acres in 1953 to .429 acres...
...Dawn's Early Light. On the even days, when the Reds do not shell the island (to prove that they can control its destiny at will even if they cannot seize it), supplies pour into the beaches from Formosa. Farmers swarm into the fields. But having learned to distrust the promises of Peking, they pack two days' work into the five morning hours, furiously irri gating, hoeing the weeds, planting winter crops. Some, like wizened Tun Men-tse, venture out before dawn even on the odd days, crouching in the dark to get in a couple of hours...
...Show. In Taoyuan, Formosa, when Yang Shih-ming's bride failed to appear for her wedding, Yang turned to Bridesmaid Chiang Ming-yeh. asked her if she would like to be his wife, married her instead...