Word: formosan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dulles told a press conference that "there is no commitment expressed or implied to defend Quemoy and Matsu." The President sent Admiral Arthur Radford, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the then Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson on a mission to Taipei to discuss Formosan defenses with their old friend Chiang, and, privately, to try to get Chiang to reduce his Quemoy forces. On that, Chiang turned them down...
Three weeks ago a well-known Formosan publisher who dared propose setting up an opposition political party went to jail. Kuomintang officials congratulated themselves that they had neatly disposed of the opposition and expected to hear no more about it. After all, the technique had worked before-notably three years ago, when another political critic, the daily Rung Lun Pao's chief editorial writer Ni Shi-tan, had been summarily sentenced to seven years in prison for "sedition" for criticizing the Nationalist government. His case got almost no attention either inside or outside Formosa. But last week the case...
Even that score was far from safe that July day on the University of Oregon's track field. Close behind Johnson was his old rival Yang. Though a Formosan. Yang was eligible for the A.A.U. meet, which accepts qualified foreigners. At this point, should he make a fast time in his heat of the 1,500 meters. Yang still had an outside chance of breaking Johnson's newly set world record. When Yang began to falter. Johnson's behavior was characteristic. From the sidelines he cried encouragement: "Keep going! Keep going! It's almost over!" Lifted...
Died. Yen Hsi-shan, 77. governor of China's arid Shansi province much of the time between 1912 and 1949, who, in the defeat that sent Chiang Kai-shek's government to Formosan exile in 1949, served as Nationalist China's last mainland Pre mier; of a heart attack; in Taipei...
...road as a way to provide useful work for the growing number of aging veterans of the 400,000-man Nationalist army. Last week many an old soldier was staying behind to take work in logging camps or else settle down on a little mountainside farm with a Formosan-born wife. The road is also expected to boost Formosa as a tourist attraction. A new 60-room hotel has been built at one of the most scenic mountain spots, and the Chinese are even talking of skiing facilities an auto drive away from their tropical coastland...