Word: macao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agents to "influence" the gyrating gold markets in Canton and Shanghai during the 19305. Lin cashed in when refugees from the Japanese invasion of China flocked to Hong Kong to change their Chinese folding money for gold. When the Japanese occupied Hong Kong. Hang Seng deftly resettled in unoccupied Macao; it moved back to Hong Kong right after the war. then profited from another rush for gold as the Communists swept down into central China from their northern redoubt. But when the Reds finally took over the entire mainland, the gold market lost much of its luster and Hang Seng...
Feeding on their desire are dozens of "travel agents" in Portugal's flyspeck colony of Macao, which juts off Red China's southern shore. What the agents offer is a one-way "ticket," at prices of $70 to $125 a head, for the 40-mile voyage from Macao to Hong Kong. The price is steep, but since Hong Kong is already bursting with 1,250,000 refugees and legally admits only 50 more a day, impatient hordes from the mainland are willing to pay dearly to be smuggled into the crown colony aboard crowded, leaky junks...
...those who are burdens on the regime-the old and the unproductive, women without jobs and tuberculous children. Others who want to escape buy their way out, paying cash-hungry Communist cadres up to $2,275 for a permit. Since the Portuguese have no restrictions, refugees use nearby Macao as a handy jumping-off point to Hong Kong. In Macao, operating openly under the aegis of the China Travel Service, no fewer than five Communist agencies with enticing names like "Favorable Wind" and "Sojourn Intercourse'' steer customers to smugglers for a fee of $3.50 a head. After dark...
...many slip through the cordon. When tragedy strikes, as it did for the 32 hapless victims who drowned off eastern Hong Kong, the trade falls off for a few days. Then the human cargos begin moving once more across the Pearl River estuary. Says Father Luis Ruiz of Macao's Roman Catholic Casa Ricci, which has sheltered more than 35,000 refugees from Red China in past years, "Nothing will stop this smuggling. Nothing can prevent these people from going...
...with good reason. In the past month seven bombs, presumably planted by Nationalist underground agents, have killed five people and wounded 40 others inside Red China. The terrorists have blown up a blockhouse, a dynamite magazine, a bank, a stretch of railway near the borders of Hong Kong and Macao. An attempt was also made to destroy a Macao-Canton ferryboat, but it was foiled when crewmen discovered a tin labeled "Apricot Kernel Cakes with Meat Filling" behind a men's room mirror. It was a TNT bomb, and the passenger suspected of planting it was executed two weeks...