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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...
...Cabinet, blasted the Foreign Ministry for being "cowardly and insensitive" in making Taiwan's case in Washington. Last week mild-mannered Foreign Minister Wei Tao-ming, 72, a Paris-educated lawyer and wartime Ambassador to the U.S., abruptly decided to retire, citing reasons of health. The "Gimo," who is now 83, has also decided that the Nationalists should press their case via a diplomatic offensive aimed at every trade fair and VIP in sight. First guest, due in Taipei next month: Congolese President Joseph Mobutu...
...remains almost exclusively in the hands of aging mainlanders. Despite good intentions, the party congress did not appreciably change that pattern. The newly elected central committee includes twoscore fresh faces, but among its 150 full and alternate members, only 13 are Taiwanese. A new party advisory committee for the Gimo, who is also director-general of the Kuomintang, seats only one Taiwanese among its eleven members; the average age of that body is an august 75. The central committee list is headed by Defense Minister Chiang Chingkuo, 59, the Gimo's oldest son and his probable successor...
Every year Chiang Kai-shek decrees that there be no official observation of his birthday. Every year the Formosans disobey. This year, for the Gimo's 81st, dragon and lion dancers pranced through the streets of Taipei, and a delegation of 3,000 overseas Chinese presented gilt scrolls enumerating their achievements of the past year. Nationalist Vice President Chia-kan Yen proclaimed that Chiang's "achievements in the promotion of nationalism, democracy and the people's livelihood have made him the No. 1 man in the world...
...Gimo is now 78. Even he complains that his memory is beginning to fail, and he finds it increasingly difficult to keep his temper in front of foreign diplomats. "A man of my age ought to retire," he told the National Assembly recently, "but our lost mainland has not yet been recovered, and our nation has to continue to prosper. I cannot but redouble my efforts to finish our unfinished tasks until...