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...higher wages and weary of the hardships at home, most IIs come to Hong Kong for good. They arrive singly or in small groups, armed and prepared to fight. Many are smuggled into the colony by immigrants living there; the largest such operation is run by a 100-member triad, or gang, called the Big Circle. One of the gang's ploys is to send a group of its members picnicking near the border; there they pick up IIs and escort them back into the city. Others come by way of Portuguese-run Macao, where "snakeheads" smuggle them...
Fuentes, as in his others works, does not develop his characters any better than he explains why they exist or what exactly they are doing. Maldonado is the only three-dimensional protagonist--a confused middle-aged stud who resembles a Velasco painting. Maldonado's triad of women--the seductive Mary, loyal Rebecca and unattainable Sarah--fill the traditional female novelistic roles of whore, mother and virgin. Maldonado's purposeless orders come from two spies, the nationless Timon and the clove-smelling Lebanese Ayub, and a Mexican economics professor Bernstein and the bullying Director General. The only thing which binds...
Princeton, a traditional Ivy golfing power, won the tourney with watertight rounds of 76, 78 and a triad of 82s for a team aggregate of 400. The Elis nipped the Crimson for second with 417 strokes on their home 18 to Harvard...
...worries them is: How far and how quickly will subsequent relations develop between Washington and Peking?" An analyst at the Rand Corp. points out that the U.S.-Peking relationship "has the potential for the most fundamental realignment of forces since World War II," if it brings Japan into a "triad with an anti-Soviet vector...
...power failed briefly. Boulez himself introduced his Espace, which seats only about 400. The ceiling can be raised or lowered drastically. But the most riveting feature is the walls, which consist entirely of accoustical panels grouped in blocks of three. A whole wall can be flat, or any triad of panels can jut out, changing the sound. In fact they can all move at once. This phenomenon clearly had more impact than Boulez intended. The room seemed to sway, and a wail like a sea storm turned the Espace briefly into a heaving ship. Annoyed, Boulez turned quickly to four...