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Charles M. Haar, professor of Law, and Daniel W. Fessler, acting professor of Law at the University of California-both of whom are members of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies-filed an amicus curiae brief in the case on behalf of the black plaintiffs...
...million refugees who have poured into Hong Kong from Red China since 1949, most have been farmers and fishermen fleeing overwork and hunger. In Hong Kong last week, TIME Correspondent Loren Fessler interviewed a rarity among the refugees: Chan Po-cheung, 30, a self-confident young man who served the Communists for years as a party stalwart and a high-ranking officer in the feared Public Security Bureau. Chan's story offers a striking insight into the life of both oppressors and oppressed in Red China. It also shows that in the past year Communist police efficiency has declined...
...burden falls on Hong Kong. There, TIME Bureau Chief Stan Karnow presides over a tedious and essential operation akin to wartime intelligence gathering. He and Correspondents Jerry Schecter and Loren Fessler interview European and Asian businessmen who travel in and out of China, see diplomats down from Peking, pump the occasional Swiss journalist who gets a mainland visa. They keep a man posted at Kowloon railroad station to watch for arrivals from Canton; they get word of refugees arriving at Macao, and interview them-poor, haggard and inarticulate people who can tell of the rice ration in their own village...
...periodicals, and there is even an excellent weekly China News Analysis put out by Jesuit priests in Hong Kong, veterans of 20 or 30 years in China. They are intelligent and patient scholars. Much of TIME's own Hong Kong study of China is the work of Loren Fessler, 38, who comes from Montana and Harvard, spent years in China before the Communists took over, and is fluent in Mandarin. His filing cabinets are full of data on Chinese politicians and economic statistics. After preparing thousands of words on Li Fu-chun, this week's cover subject...
...cancellation of my subscription is to take effect at once, please. MARGARET E. FESSLER...