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This blog was created for USASTRATCOM Long Lines Battalion Army personnel who served in Taiwan during the 1965-72 time frame. Specifically, those who lived and worked in and around Taipei are the target. If you worked at the Grass Mountain or Gold Mountain facilities or anywhere in downtown Taipei, we would like to hear from you. All are welcome to visit and contribute to this blog. Your comments and pictures are encouraged.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Taiwan Tourist, Peter Arnett, 1969

We may have kept this article as proof to family and friends that Taiwan was being discovered as an emerging tourist destination.  

 Particularly, we must have sent this article first to our parents to assure them that we were not fending for ourselves in the middle of a jungle. 



Peter Arnett was working for the Associated Press during the Vietnam War and, for some reason, wrote this Pacific Stars and Stripes review of the emerging Taiwan. 

He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for International Reporting. 



Mr. Arnett, as he appears today, was most widely viewed when he was a correspondent for CNN.  Today he teaches in China (PRC). 

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