The private Formosa Airlines company and Miss Universe, Inc., reached an agreement to hold next year's Miss Universe contest in the CKS sports hall next May, and the government expressed its pleasure at the arrangement. The return of an international beauty contest to the ROC after an absence of 23 years thereupon became yet another in a long line of recent moves toward greater liberalization.
今年，情勢突然逆轉，民營的永興航空公司邀請環姐公司總裁漢契來台參觀後，雙方一拍即合，敲定明年五月在林口中正體育館舉行環姐選美活動，而政府也適時表明「樂觀其成」的開放態度。於是，繼解嚴之後的多項開放解禁措施，長達廿三年的「美禁」也趕搭上了「解嚴列車」。