Word: chino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...showed a small sign of easing last week when Honda became the first Japanese automaker to send some of its U.S.-made autos back home for sale. The carmaker marked the occasion on a dock in Portland, Ore., where Republican Senator Bob Packwood and Honda's U.S. chief, Tetsuo Chino, drove the first auto in a load of 540 gray and white Accord coupes into the hold of the freighter Green Bay. Also put on board were 100 U.S.-made Honda motorcycles...
Honda maintains that the shipment of autos from its Marysville, Ohio, plant is more than a gesture to assuage protectionist sentiments in the U.S. Contends Chino: "It's a small, initial step for future big, big sales in Japan." Honda officials say they plan to ship 4,000 cars to Japan during 1988 and as many as 50,000 annually by 1991. Because the decline of the dollar has lowered U.S. production costs, the autos can be sold in Japan at a competitive price. The Accords are outfitted with luxuries not found on Japanese models: spoilers, fancy wheel covers...
...Manhattan's northern tip, outside an 18th century Dutch farmhouse on 204th Street, elderly Jewish women sit on benches, pretending to ignore the young latino drivers who are jiving with each other through open car windows. Just south on St. Nicholas Avenue at El Pablon Chino restaurant, the Chinese waiter serves fried Dominican sausage and chop suey; he speaks Spanish, but no English. Along one refurbished commercial block in Flushing, Asia is scrunched together: Korean beauty salon, Chinese hardware store, Pakistani-Indian spice and grocery store, Chinese wristwatch shop, Korean barber...
...Captain watches with amusement as some preppie-looking young men buy from a dealer standing three yards away from police. "The police don't want no hassle-just score and split and they won't bother you," he says. He is waiting for his "tout," Chino, who helps the Captain and others buy the purest drugs. Chino arrives, walking sideways like a drunken crab. He wears a green, cowled sweatshirt and a smelly blue coat. "What's good, Chino?" the Captain asks. Chino blinks and stabs the air with a sticky claw of a hand...
...Captain pays Chino with one bag of each drug and watches him skitter off into the gloom. Then he picks up Snowdrop and, eager to speedball, heads for Peewee's shooting gallery a few blocks away. The Captain warns of dangers immediately after any buy. "Guys could be all over you in seconds ... They use ice picks and slip them into your heart like butter...