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...TAIPEI, Formosa, March 26--Rebels in Tibet have cut supply lines of the Red Chinese garrison, forcing it to rely on airdrops from China proper, Nationalist China Vice President Chen Cheng asserted today...
...alert, wire-bearded churchman strode off the plane from Hong Kong one morning last week as a19-gun salute boomed across Taipei's Sungshan airport. It was an ambassador's welcome for Gregory Cardinal Agaganian, the Vatican's proprefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, i.e., boss of the Roman Catholic Church's worldwide missions. The first man in that post ever to visit the Far East, Armenian Cardinal Agaganian came straight to the point in his airport press conference. Plainly referring to the 3,000,000 Chinese Catholics under Red rule...
...urgent request from Chiang Kai-shek's government for closer Vatican ties; in exchange, Agaganian may ask draft exemption for students for the priesthood and permission to build more schools for the island's growing Catholic flock (now 114,000). Next week, after celebrating Mass in Taipei's Armed Forces Stadium, the cardinal moves on to Korea and Japan-showing the cross throughout an area menaced by Communism...
Cheng Ch'i's world news is provided by radio cable from Nationalist China's Central News Agency in Taipei; many of its features come from 40 uniformed correspondents in forward posts; its local news is gathered by two fulltime reporters. Counting delivery boys, Cheng Ch'i's staff numbers 70. Average salary: $10 a month, plus free firewood, rice, cooking oil, salt, clothing and cigarettes...
Noodle shops throve on the celebration. Bunting and streamers festooned Taipei. And to avoid the well-wishing crush, Nationalist China's-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek went off to his Sun Moon Lake retreat, passed a quiet 72nd birthday...