FORMOSA: Third Term

In his "temporary" capital city of Taipei, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, 73, last week was elected to his third six-year term as President of Nationalist China. Not a single vote had been cast against

Chiang in the National Assembly by the time the total reached the 789 required for election on the first ballot.

Still unresolved is the identity of Chiang's eventual successor. Few observers think that it will be either of the President's adult sons: Soviet-educated Chiang Ching-kuo, 54, or German-trained Chiang Wei-kuo, 44. who (see cut) was photographed last week like someone...

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