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...called the action "tantamount to sentencing the youths to death.'' Over the Fence. It was not simply a case of bureaucratic heartlessness. Since the Communists seized China in 1949. Hong Kong has absorbed a million refugees. Because Red China cynically gives exit visas to the aged and infirm who are of no use at home, an average of 1,500 a month come over the border legally. An estimated 16,000 more per month arrive illegally, either packed in the holds of fishing junks or by climbing the eight-foot fence that runs along the 22-mile land...
...their relatives in China. This year, in answer to desperate appeals, they have already shipped 9,000,000. Refugees stream into Hong Kong and Macao, escaping any way they can. To avoid feeding those unable to work, Red China is now giving exit visas to the aged and infirm. One Hong Kong resident had gone to China in 1958 because "I wanted to work for my country"; last week he fled back to Hong Kong and reported, "There was no meat, and fish only once a week. You had to get up at 2 and 3 in the morning...
...efforts to improve them. Another critic wrote: "He has an unaffected natural talent for praising courage, chivalry and undemonstrativeness in words which inspire distaste for these good things. Have you never risen from a perusal of Mr. Davis on Chivalry with a determination never again, no matter how infirm the woman or how heavy-laden, to rise from your seat in the car for her sake...
...Administration for use in handy quotation. Economic growth "under Eisenhower-Nixon has been miserably slow," trumpeted the Digest. What gains the country did achieve "have heavily favored the moneylenders as compared with farmers, small businessmen and workers." Republican "budget-first fiscal policies" have callously ignored the aged, the infirm, the unemployed, the farmers, the jammed schools and the blighted cities. To top it off, said the Democrats' official organ, the U.S. is "second best" in U.S.Soviet missile and space competition...
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims poured into the 15-square-mile site on special trains, buses, bullock carts, bicycles and on foot, the old and infirm often carried on younger men's backs. The crowd found one-way traffic patterns, with 200 mounted police and 3,000 other lathi-wielding cops to enforce them. On every road there were medical teams to inoculate them against cholera (though many needle-shy peasants managed to slip past). The festival area itself was sectioned off like the Chicago stockyards with bamboo fencing to keep crowds from clotting. Posted in special watchtowers, police...