Word: macao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian press charged that Britain in Suez behaved far worse than India; conveniently forgotten was the fact that Britain bowed to a U.N. cease fire and withdrew from the territory it had taken. The Times of India voiced the surprise of Indian diplomats that the Portuguese authorities in Macao and Africa had interned 30,000 Indian passport holders, "because this is the kind of step usually taken against enemy aliens on the outbreak of war; India is not at war with Portugal...
...interview European and Asian businessmen who travel in and out of China, see diplomats down from Peking, pump the occasional Swiss journalist who gets a mainland visa. They keep a man posted at Kowloon railroad station to watch for arrivals from Canton; they get word of refugees arriving at Macao, and interview them-poor, haggard and inarticulate people who can tell of the rice ration in their own village but are ignorant of conditions five miles away...
...electric power, only one in every nine street lamps is lit. Two years ago, Chinese in Hong Kong shipped 870,000 food parcels annually to 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...
...Kwangtung province, around Canton, and had tried to keep news of it from slipping through the cracks in the Bamboo Curtain. They could not keep the tiny microbe of cholera, Vibrio comma, from slipping through with refugees escaping to Hong Kong or to the nearby Portuguese islet colony of Macao...
...gimlet-eyed money-changers on Hong Kong's Connaught Road and along the nearby Macao waterfront traditionally buy-at carefully reckoned prices-even the most dubious currencies. But last week they were shaking their heads at fishermen and smugglers selling Communist China's yuan. For the yuan had dropped to an alltime low. It began its spectacular decline last year, took its biggest plunge since January, when the news of China's food shortages first leaked out. Overall, it has dropped 50% in value from a year ago; buyers can get all they want...