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Plasma to Gut. At the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 ("Namru-2") in Taipei, Dr. Robert Allan Phillips, the world's most famed cholera fighter, has pursued his interest in the disease since 1955. An important development was his theory that the diarrhea results from a disturbance of what doctors call "the sodium pump." Normally, Dr. Phillips explains, sodium salts and other electrolytes pass in both directions from the inside of the bowel into the blood plasma, and vice versa; and in healthy people the movement is greater from the gut to the plasma. In cholera, the proportions...
...father, after all, is now 77. Invited by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Chiang and his entourage were greeted by an honor guard and a 19-gun salute. Then the lean, bareheaded American and the short, stocky Chinese with the Homburg disappeared for a series of conferences. Just before leaving Taipei, Chiang had declared that "a final and decisive war between Communist and Nationalist Chinese forces is inevitable," but he was much more restrained in Washington. His and McNamara's joint communiqué said simply that they had discussed the Asian situation, the question of Formosan aid to Viet...
...Taipei the dashing 34-year-old ex-fighter pilot had easily charmed the Nationalists, already flattered by his visit, with a show of boyish derring-do and conviviality, and had delighted merchants with purchases of trinkets and gifts for the folks back home, including 60 long-playing record albums and three pairs of blue jeans. On a tour of Kung Kuan airbase, 80 miles outside Taipei, Ky got permission from Chinese brass to take a test spin in an American F-104, spent five minutes diving and banking, then taxied smartly up to the reviewing stand erected in his honor...
...French Caravelle jet, Air Viet Nam last year boosted its freight tonnage 50% and its passenger loads 30% (to 305,000) on flights throughout the country and to Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore. Lately the company has expanded its modest fleet to 23 planes by chartering DC-3s from Taipei's China Air Lines and other planes from Air France (which has a 20.5% stake in Air Viet...
...that year forced an abrupt about-face in U.S. policy. Aid and arms were poured into the beleaguered island so that it might withstand invasion, rebuild and modernize its economy, develop foreign trade. The U.S. has since funneled $2.7 billion in military aid to Chiang's government in Taipei, plus some $1.5 billion in economic assistance. A land-reform program has more than doubled farm productivity, while more and more of the nation's resources have been harnessed to industry. Formosa today boasts the Orient's second highest standard of living (after Japan), though three-fourths...