Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotional rendezvous with their foreign visitors. The long-awaited and highly covert task that evening: unloading and distributing more than 1 million contraband Chinese-language Bibles. The 232-ton cargo of books had been printed in the U.S. and was smuggled 200 miles up the Chinese coast from Hong Kong in the largest operation of its kind in the history of China...
Thomas Nelson Publishers of Nashville, Tenn., a religious house, agreed to produce the million copies. Photographic plates of a Union version Bible, first translated into Chinese in 1919, were forwarded to the U.S. from Hong Kong. The printing bill for the leatherbound, 629-page volumes of the complete Scriptures was $1.4 million. The Bibles were transported last spring to Hong Kong in a container ship...
...specially chosen 20-member international crew began to practice dry runs on secluded Mindoro Island in the Philippines. A special 100-ft. barge was built, and, for $480,000, the tug Michael was bought in Singapore. Finally, the assault party sailed for Hong Kong to pick up its illicit cargo. At the last moment, a planned Easter Sunday landing at Swatow was scrubbed by Van der Bijl because of concern that Chinese authorities might be alerted to the plan. Two months later, the crew sent a cryptic message to agents in Swatow: "We are going to have a dinner party...
...Open Doors clandestinely had supplied $75,000 to hire the vehicles). But about four hours after the departure of the Michael, an army patrol turned up unexpectedly in Gezhou village. The patrol stormed the beach, arresting hundreds who were still at work carting off the Bibles. Subsequently, according to Hong Kong reports, most of the prisoners were released...
Sure you might say you get plenty of exercise running from your room to the Hong Kong or during "indoor, coeducational, contact sports," but seriously, what about the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." There must be something pretty appealing about competitive sports if that guy on "Wide World of Sports" comes back every week to fall of the bottom of a 90 meter ski jump...