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...from a total retirement, since Franco remains chief of state (the nation's highest post) and head of the armed forces. Thus he continues as Carrero Blanco's superior. But never before in his 37-year political career had the diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) generalissimo ever relinquished a post...
Chiang Kaishek, Nationalist China's 84-year-old President, seemed aghast when it was first proposed to him that Vice President C.K. Yen, 66, resign his added post of Premier and that the generalissimo name his own son, Chiang Ching-kuo, 62, to fill the vacancy. Would that not, the Gimo demanded, be unseemly? Would it not seem to be the beginning of a dynasty...
...that job, nongovernment observers hope, he may have the clout to carry out his promises to 1) attack the bureaucratic inefficiency that has tarnished the island republic's record of progress and prosperity, and 2) bring more native Taiwanese into the government. No one, though, doubts that the generalissimo will still have the final say on major decisions, as long as he remains alive and capable...
There was no suspense in the election that assured Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, 84, a fifth six-year term as President of the Republic of China, i.e., the Nationalist government of Taiwan. The Gimo was the only candidate, and he received all but eight of the f,316 ballots cast in the National Assembly (the others were left blank or deliberately mismarked). The vote, however, demonstrated the urgency of the regime's plan to hold new popular elections for the Assembly-the first since before Chiang and his 2,000,000 Nationalist followers fled to Taiwan...
...meeting place. Did he think that the subject of Japanese war reparations might be raised by the Chinese during such talks? "We know it might arise," he said. "On the other hand, there is a school of thought that says this subject should not be raised at all. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, you will recall, did not insist on reparations when we negotiated our peace treaty, and that treaty is still in effect...