Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent weeks Taiwan has even been willing to advertise its network of loyalists and informers on China's mainland. Breaking with precedent, Taipei has published the names of some 20 "martyrs,"-spies and agents who lost their lives while operating in the People's Republic. A Taiwan government-recruited mainland spy named Wang Hung, 30, surfaced in Taipei after having served a year as an undercover operative in China. Purportedly a political instructor in the Red army stationed in Yunnan province, Wang told TIME'S Bing Wong that he formed clandestine cells among urban youths...
...adopted such egalitarian practices as stumping the island's small cities and farm villages and talking directly to the people. "If I stayed in my office year round, I would not stay as healthy," he told TIME'S Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan in Taipei last week. "Getting around the countryside is my responsibility and my pleasure...
...island's most outstanding achievement by far under Chiang's leadership has been its remarkable economic growth. Moving away from his father's obsessive stress on military preparedness, Chiang has based Taipei's continued survival on economic strength. Indeed, after Japan, Taiwan is Asia's greatest success story. Foreign trade in 1973 rocketed to $8.3 billion, up from $5.9 billion the year before. In some industrial products, such as television sets and transistor radios, Taiwan has already surpassed Japan as the main foreign supplier of the U.S. One gloomy note in this otherwise bright picture...
...expected to reach $120 million. The major reason: many Japanese males have come to believe that the Korean kisaeng are more accomplished (and quite a bit cheaper) than the ladies patrolling the Ginza back home. In recent years, Japanese males with a penchant for lechery almost automatically headed for Taipei and the charmers of the red-lit Grass Mountain. But last September's break in Taiwan-Japan diplomatic relations also had a depressing effect on carnal relations...
...Shanghai, with a population, according to official figures, of 10,820,000. Tokyo is next with 8,841,000, followed by New York with 7,895,000, Peking with 7,570,000 and London with 7,379,000. One city for which no figures are given at all: Taipei (pop. 1,803,000). The China with official membership in the U.N. insisted that Taiwan be entirely ignored...