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Show "There are many businesses busi-nesses In Utah that have dealings with Taiwan, and depend heavily on that country for much of their output," said the Utahn, "I want to see exactly what im -pact President Carter's ill-founded ill-founded policy will have on those dealings." . government officials. The entourage will travel commercially, the government govern-ment officials expenses being paid by the National Conservative Research and Education Foundation. The private citizens are individually individ-ually funding their own costs. Marriott said his main objective ob-jective in making the trip is. two fold: 1) to assure the Taiwanese government and her people that the American people have a tremendous interest in-terest in maintaining good relations with them in spite of the apparent abandonment by President Carter, and 2) to examine closely the economic eco-nomic and other effects the new relationship will have on Utah. MARRIOTT LEAVES FOR TAIWAN Congressman Dan Marriott Mar-riott (R-Utah) left for a five day trip to Taiwan to explore the impact on U.S. -Taiwan relations caused by President Presi-dent Jimmy Carter's hasty recognition of mainland China. As part of a delegation dele-gation of 10 U.S. Congressmen Congress-men and 24 American political politi-cal and business leaders, Marriott will meet with Chinese government officials, of-ficials, refugees from the mainland, American businessmen busi-nessmen in Taipei, andU.S. |