Then he was sent to the Institute of International Relations at National Chengchi University, where for five years he was forbidden from lecturing and publishing articles. In 1978, prohibited from teaching and with seemingly no future in academia, he and his partner, now legislator Chen Wan-chen, ran for National Assembly and Legislative Yuan elections, and he lost his job for the third time.
他被安排到政治大學國關中心，過了五年不准演講、不准寫文章的日子；六十七年因仍不准他開課，在找不到出路下，與現任立委陳婉真搭擋，參加國大代表與立法委員選舉，而第三度被解聘。