Word: macao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perches like a nervous hummingbird on the long southeastern rim of Communist China - 61 sq. mi. of uneasy Portuguese suzerainty in a teeming, tumultuous Asian world. This is fabled Macao, a sleepy city of sin, smuggling and games of chance, which, like nearby Hong Kong, is tolerated by Peking mainly as a handy source of hard currency. Thus its 300,000 people live in the knowledge that they might at any time be engulfed by their giant neighbor. "When China breathes," goes one old Macao saying, "we tremble." Last week China breathed, and the tremble was almost seismic...
...first hot breath of trouble came early last month when Peking radio commented acidly that both Macao and Hong Kong occupied "sacred and inviolable" territory of China. Since many of Macao's Chinese population are pro-Peking, it was possibly by design or possibly by chance that a fight broke out two weeks later on Macao's nearby island of Taipa between police and 65 leftist construction workers; amid a melee of flying fists and truncheons, at least 20 persons were injured. Macao's leftist newspapers and labor unions immediately cried "fascist" brutality, and Peking was soon...
Five Red Demands. When Brigadier General Jose Nobre de Carvalho took over late last month as Macao's new Portuguese-appointed Governor, Macao's Communists demanded that the government 1) acknowledge responsibility for the Taipa incident, 2) punish a deputy police chief involved, 3) publicly burn all police truncheons, 4) promise an end to "attacks" on Macao's Chinese, and 5) compensate families of workmen injured during the incident itself...
...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...
Especially into the southern coastal waters near Canton. Last month 748 escapees from the mainland landed in Macao-the highest total in three years. Over half made it by swimming the rough tidal waters of the Pearl River estuary, buoyed up by their newly learned skill and by plastic life preservers supplied to participants in Peking's swimming campaign...