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With Nixon's concessions on Taiwan in hand, the Chinese served notice last week of its legal claim to Hong Kong and Macao. Using the same formula arrived at with Nixon, they are claiming that this is an internal Chinese matter, U.N. ambassador, Huang Hua, requested no U.N. intervention on the issue such as from the U.N. Decolonization Committee...
...South Korean government, which licensed four legal casinos three years ago, now takes in about $2,000,000 annually from the operations. Macao, long the mecca of Asian gambling, has been upgraded from seedy dens where croupiers wore undershirts to gilded halls in lavish hotels boasting Thai masseuses. The tiny Portuguese colony off the Chinese mainland today draws 1,300,000 visitors a year, many of them sped there by gleaming hydrofoils or ferryboats featuring strip shows...
With the talks going nowhere, China is preparing for the worst. The latest evidence of Peking's efforts to condition its huge populace to the possibility of war comes from two U.S. citizens who were seized by Chinese fishing junks last February while yachting between Hong Kong and Macao. Released last week, they told of seeing widespread roadblocks and military activity whenever they were shifted from place to place. From his shuttered room in a rural commune, Simeon Baldwin, Hong Kong-based manager of an aircraft-parts firm, said that he could hear the local army units at bayonet...
Communist Chinese junks pounced on six yachts off Macao and seized 15 persons, among them six Americans...
...senile Macao millionaire, played by Welles, is a man in love with numbers and facts. He decides to play God by breathing literal life into a traditional sailors' tale-the one about an impotent rich man who hires a seaman to impregnate his young wife. The millionaire flags down a 17-year-old seaman and an aging girl-about-town (Jeanne Moreau) and puts them in his sumptuous bedchamber. The sailor, he cackles, will one day tell the story of his exploit-and for the first time in history, that yarn will be founded on truth...