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The K tourist association estimates each American soldieror sailor spends an average of $200 every time becomes here, about 15% more than ordinary tourists who usually stay a shorter time and have already flattened their wallets in Tokyo, Bangkok or Hawaii.
American officers in the special RR office here think $350 per serviceman per visit would be a more accurate figure. This means HK merchants are pocketing more than $25 million from private military spending every year the Vnem war goes on. As Moscow radio pointed out, recently the Chinese communists get their cut of the R&R bonanza.
Despite "trading with the enemy" laws passed by Congress American servicemen like everyone else here drink Chinese Communist water, eat Chcom food and-albeit unwittingly shop in CiIcon department
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stores while they're in K. No oneoutside † Peiping knows how many
of the bars with American sounding names in HK's scruffy WANCHAI district are ormed by the Communists, nor how many of the bar girls work for Chinese intelligence.
It's not likely that Peiping has overlooked such a painless way of extracting information about American operations in Vnam and elsewhere in the Far east.
Few servicemen in Hong Kong are aware of the political and propaganda storm that rages around their RR visits. Fost of then simply like Hong Kong for its shopping, its food and its sightseeing. Chose who don't have the money to shop or go-to the races con leys wander around Tiger Palm garden or bowl at the China lat lens club..
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