Word: kowloon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total 1,000,000 visitors a year. The local government is arranging financing for a $17 million runway extension that will open Kai Tak Airport to jumbo jets; it is also planning a $500 million subway and a $350 million road improvement, including a tunnel to connect the mainland Kowloon peninsula with Hong Kong Island...
...China can take over the "New Territories," an essentially agricultural area that makes up four-fifths of the 400-sq.-mi. colony, when a 99-year lease expires in 1997. That will reduce the colony to Kowloon and Hong Kong Island, the two centers of business and tourism that were ceded to Britain in perpetuity by China's emperors. Legalities aside, Red China could overrun Hong Kong in 24 hours whenever it wished. What permits business optimism is the belief that Peking finds the status quo alluring. Red China earns nearly half of its foreign exchange-upwards...
Last week the British Crown Colony suddenly lost its spectator status. From the colony's teeming Kowloon district, thousands of pro-Maoist Chinese poured into the streets to harass Hong Kong's British rulers with the same harsh tactics that Mao's Red Guards have used on their enemies within Red China...
...trouble, which started at a plastic-flower plant in the northeastern part of Kowloon, quickly blossomed into the most prolonged disturbances in the colony's postwar history. Mobs of three or four thousand teen-age boys, usually led by older youths who wore Mao Tse-tung emblems on their shirts and waved the little red book of Mao's sayings, stoned hotels, overturned autos, set fire to a double-decker bus, and showered bottles on the police...
...ones that Peking last December served on Lisbon to force the Portuguese to surrender de facto control of Macao to local Maoists. The British decided to be tough. Hong Kong's 10,000 well-disciplined police kept the mass of the rioters confined to two areas in Kowloon, arrested more than 400. Whitehall refused to dignify the Red Chinese demands with an answer. Instead, the British Commonwealth Office pledged that law and order would be maintained in the colony. Faced with this determination, Peking seemed to back off a bit. At week's end, though, mobs took...