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...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...
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...
...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...
Remarkably enough, much of the U.S. political right bought Kissinger's argument. "I am satisfied," said Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater,* and so was California's Governor Ronald Reagan. Anna Chennault, a longtime supporter of Chiang Kaishek, signaled agreement by permitting her name to appear on a slate of delegates pledged to Nixon at the Republican National Convention. Some conservatives, of course, reacted as Nixon may have expected them to. Ohio Congressman John Ashbrook, who is challenging Nixon in the New Hampshire primary, called the Taiwan statement a "sellout" that will lead eventually to a Communist takeover...
Died. Chen Yi, 71, Chinese Foreign Minister since 1958 and longtime intimate of Mao Tse-tung; of intestinal cancer; in Peking. Like Chiang Kaishek. Chen honed his formidable military talents at Canton's Whampoa Military Academy. He then joined Chiang's famed 1926 Northern Expedition to defeat the warlords and reunify China. After the split between the Kuomintang and the Communists the following year, Chen excelled as Mao's kuai-tsu-shou (hatchet man). He led Mao's rear guard during the Long March, and commanded the New Fourth Army in its fight against the Japanese...