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...Says one expert on China's agriculture: "In the debris of the Great Leap Forward, compulsion cannot work. All that is left is persuasion." Most peasants are convinced nonetheless that they are in for a far more rigorous existence; many each week are still fleeing the mainland. In Macao, where he sought refuge after swimming six hours across the Pearl River delta, a handsome, husky-looking youth from Kwangtung province shrugged last week: "What can you do? How can you move? It's like a heavy stone crushing...
...mine-or so South Korea's ruling junta thought when it dreamed up Walker Hill, a sprawling, 156-acre complex of gaming tables and hot-pillow hotels designed to entice the tourist trade and, not incidentally, the 40,000 U.S. troops stationed in Korea. Out to Manila and Macao went the call for croupiers, and four Americans from Las Vegas moved in to manage the action. But when it opened up ten miles outside Seoul last week, the Monte Carlo of the Orient proved to be little more than a $5,000,000 bingo parlor with soda fountains...
...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...
...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...