Word: hong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Discovery Visits Hong Kong" for a look at a family on a sampan and rural life a few feet from the Chinese border. First of two parts...
...check any sudden spurt in defection, Peking sent army units to the borders above Hong Kong and Macao, but a lot of Chinese still managed to slip through. With them came unconfirmed reports that Mao Tse-tung was suffering from throat cancer and that the Red Guard-led purge was the last gasp of a dying dictator. To be sure, Mao has not spoken publicly during his last few outings, allowing Defense Minister Lin Piao (TIME, Sept. 9) to be his mouthpiece. Last week Lin was placed directly in command of the Red Guards-a position heretofore held...
...refugees from Red Guard terror who trickled out of China last week must have done a double take as they reached Hong Kong. There, queued up in Kowloon Station beside the mid-morning train to Canton were hundreds of Chinese waiting to go home. There were teen-age girls in distinctly non-proletarian blouses, old men in bourgeois pin-striped suits, and women whose arms were draped with heavy jackets in anticipation of the chilly Chinese autumn. The refugees-in-reverse were overseas Chinese from Indonesia, some 4,000 of whom have fled back to the mainland in recent months...
Fully 7,000 more Chinese are waiting in the North Sumatran port of Medan for a Red Chinese ship that Peking has promised to send, but it can only carry 700 passengers. Last week 162 Chinese landed in Hong Kong from Indonesia, many of them setting foot on the mainland of Asia for the first time in their lives. Like all new arrivals, they had about them an air of ineffable hope and naiveté. Said Hsiao Hsing-fa, 38, and headed for a new life in Red-ruled Canton: "I am not worried by what I read...
...latest nuclear test devices, while a second school believes that the Chinese are working to bypass the bomber stage and are pouring their energies into producing rocket-deliverable hydrogen warheads. Though U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara maintains that the Chinese will not have a functioning ICBM until 1975, many Hong Kong China-watchers believe that Peking will have full-fledged ICBM thermonuclear capability by 1970 or 1971. "They're never going to be able to challenge the U.S. or the Soviets in a nuclear shoot-out," says one, "but within a few years they're going to have...