Word: macao
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Swollen to flood stage by recent rainstorms, the muddy Pearl River last week washed some grisly flotsam onto the shores of the islands that hug South China. On Hong Kong and Macao, 43 bodies drifted to shore-many brutally slashed and six of them trussed, their arms and legs roped to their necks. The Pearl's cargo confirmed, in dramatic fashion, reports from the mainland by travelers, press and radio that the worst factional fighting in a year is spreading throughout much of China, particularly its southern half...
...demands were almost identical to the 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...
Robert Stack, a freelance photographer on the loose in Red China, stumbles onto the secret of a long-buried treasure. Once back in Macao, he develops a case of justifiable paranoia when he is set upon by a chic Chinese princess (Nancy Kwan) who keeps sticking out her tong at him. Following this he is mugged and bugged by a vicious racketeer (Christian Marquand) and an avaricious police inspector...
...study the demands, young Communist students staged two days of mild downtown demonstrations. Then full-scale street riots suddenly erupted on Dec. 3. Chanting "Kill the Portuguese devils!", some 3,000 Red Guard-style demonstrators smashed store windows, tipped over every car in sight, pulled down statues, and sacked Macao's City Hall. The next day-early last week-5,000 took to the streets, and before order was restored eight were dead. At week's end De Carvalho had accepted the five demands and Macao was calm again, though the nervousness and unrest remained...
What was it all about? Was Red China planning to "liberate" Macao? Humiliate the Portuguese? Or just flexing its muscles after its setbacks in the rest of Asia? No one could be sure, but the Reds were clearly not yet finished. Having won their first five demands, they were making five more demands at week's end, including the sacking of De Carvalho's police commissioner...