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...foot, 200-pound Foo Tak-yam last week visited Macao's Buddhist Kuan Yin Temple. His partly pious, partly sensual intention was to smoke opium and contemplate a successful, sinful life that began in peddling doughnuts and culminated in ruling the fabulous gambling industry of the Orient's Monte Carlo. Foo's celebration was under way when three Chinese entered the hilltop pagoda, pulled pistols from their long black gowns and whisked him away in a black sedan. Four days later his son received a preliminary ransom demand: one picul of gold (133⅓ lbs. in weight...
...bucket; he had reaped one of the polyglot Portuguese colony's biggest fortunes from his teeming salons, where gamblers from nearby Hong Kong and South China came for fan-tan and cusek (played with dice). During the war Foo got into the big time; he cornered Macao's food market. On the profits he kept six concubines in a Macao mansion...
...Macao rumor had it that he was sought by both the Chinese Central Government and the Communists as a collaborationist and profiteer. Despite the ransom note, many wondered whether the snatch at Kuan Yin Temple was for profit or politics-or both. At week's end the kidnappers upped the price to six piculs...
...Japan might dictate a declaration in the Pacific by further encroachments. Jap soldiers already held Portuguese Timor, were bullying their way through the streets of Portuguese Macao, across the Pearl River from Hong Kong...
...Portugal, leave Portugal free to pursue benevolent neutrality and make her own decision whether or when she should be come an active war ally in the Atlantic. Japan forcibly occupied Portuguese Timor in the Pacific, and is reported to be exercising illegal military control over the colony of Macao on the China coast. Either fact would be ample reason for war if Portugal feels the time has come to stand up, be counted and get a favorable position on the postwar docket...