Spencer Moosa

He was an Associated Press correspondent

Author of

• Leisure Moments 1968
• Taiwan by the China Sea and Other Poems 1985

22/5/1990 Moosa, the last journalist to leave the Chinese mainland when the Communists conquered it, died Friday, his family reported. He was 85 and died of heart and lung disease in Taipei, Taiwan. In 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek and his retinue fled to Taiwan to escape the victorious Communist army, Moosa was on one of the last four planes reserved for Nationalist leaders. An elegant figure and noted raconteur, Moosa worked for the British news agency Reuters before joining The Associated Press.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1990-05-22/news/9005220211_1_mo...