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 marching in a royal entourage, three steps to his strolling father's rear. More likely choice: tiny, tough Vice President Chen Cheng. 63, onetime Governor of Formosa, who along with Chiang was effortlessly re-elected last week.

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