Word: hong
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Ever since Ronald Reagan took office last January, relations between the U.S. and China have been as rocky as a Himalayan footpath. The Chinese are still smarting from his pro-Taiwan statements made during the presidential campaign, and suspect that he will tilt U.S. policy toward Taipei. Stopping in Hong Kong last week, on his way to three days of talks with Chinese leaders in Peking, Secretary of State Alexander Haig admitted that the purpose of his trip was "to clear the air with respect to President Reagan's policies in this region...
Airman Recruit Paul A. Trerice, 21, was no stranger to naval correctional practices. He had been busted once on a minor drug charge and again after being caught off limits with a WAVE in her barracks. Early last month while shipmates enjoyed liberty in Hong Kong, he was confined to the CCU for falling asleep while on duty. But Trerice was not responding to treatment. After two unauthorized absences from the ship, he was placed in the brig. On April 14, Trerice refused to complete an exercise session for CCU inmates. According to some accounts, he asked to report...
...basis of 180 taped, in-depth interviews in China, Hong Kong's Chinese Church Research Center told TIME Correspondent Bing Wong that there are 5 million Protestants in the more than 50,000 "house churches" that kept functioning during the Cultural Revolution and became the mainstream of Chinese Christianity. Protestants, accustomed to lay leadership, began worshiping in such homes, often at night, and sharing memorized Bible stories as well as hymns. Churchless Catholics sometimes joined these clandestine meetings...
Wodehouse's childhood was a model of bland British neglect- parents absent ed in Hong Kong where father served as a magistrate while young Pelham was stashed in schools back in England. When it came time for Oxford, there was no money. The aspiring author had to clerk in a bank. When he was quarantined with mumps, the stay-at-home knocked out 19 stories in three weeks: he had taken refuge in comic art. It was to be his true home from then...
...Long, there were food riots last fall in Nghe Tinh (the cradle of Vietnamese Communism and the birthplace of Ho Chi Minh) and in Haiphong, and open disaffection in Hanoi. All these are areas that have been under Communist rule since 1945. Most of the Vietnamese who have reached Hong Kong this year (572 to date) come from the North; many were born and raised under Communism. The economy of Vietnam is supported to the tune of $100 million annually from the hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese who have fled their country but send gifts of food, clothes, and medicines...