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- WORLD, Page 40World NotesHONG KONGUndesirable Imports
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- Queen's Road Central is the focal point of the toniest
- shopping and business district in one of the world's safest
- cities. But earlier this month, hundreds of terrified lunchtime
- pedestrians rushed for cover as four armed jewelry-store robbers
- opened fire to make their getaway with $1.3 million worth of gold
- and gems. Although two suspects were nabbed, the heist was one of
- the more spectacular of the 100-odd armed robberies committed in
- Hong Kong this year.
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- Police believe that many of the latest gangsters come from
- China, recruited by Hong Kong criminal rings. To stop the
- influx, the British administration is pledging to work closely
- with Beijing, which will assume control of the colony in 1997
- and whose patrols have been letting more and more people and
- goods steal past the border. Hong Kong police are pressing for
- a quicker, simpler response: more money and better weapons now.
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