Word: hong
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Last week Marcos' luck finally ran out. As Filipinos joyously welcomed a new hero, President Corazon Aquino, TIME was once again very much on the scene. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Sandra Burton, along with Manila-based Reporter Nelly Sindayen, had witnessed most of the events of the past 2 1/2 years that led up to last week's revolution, from Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino's assassination in August 1983 to the emergence of "Cory" Aquino from shy widowhood to the Philippines' highest office. They were joined by Bangkok Bureau Chief James Willwerth and Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold in covering...
...Webb is tricked into assuming his Bourne identity once again. His assignment this time: to track down an impostor threatening to plunge the Far East into war. The bait being dangled is Webb's equally scholarly wife Marie, who has been abducted by American agents and flown to Hong Kong, where much of the action takes place. It is all for the good of the country, though most of the way Webb and Marie find that hard to believe. So may readers. But credibility is hardly the point. Ludlum deals in male fantasies, and there are few two-fisted scribes...
...southwestern port of Malmo. Thage Peterson, Sweden's Industry Minister, said the government has pumped $4.7 billion into the shipbuilding industry over the past decade, but finally decided to end the Kockums subsidies because the firm had received no new orders in more than two years. In Hong Kong, the Tung family fleet of some 150 ships has nearly gone aground because of $2 billion in debts. A group of the Tungs' bankers helped bail out the company this month by giving it easier payment terms. The demand for cargo ships has been slackening since the mid-1970s, when...
...space accident. The Jerusalem Post noted editorially that "Americans take their risks in front of grandstands and television cameras for all the world to see, while the Soviets prefer to keep their launchings secret until they have been successful." Alan Castro, a former newspaper editor in Hong Kong, expressed a common new awareness of space travel prompted by the accident: "For a while there, we lost sight of the man in our fixation with the machine." Toronto's Globe and Mail pointed to the "harsh lesson that glory and adventure often go hand in hand with danger and death...
...husband, somewhat closer to type, plays a raffish hustler. But the real surprises in Shanghai Surprise have come off the set. Upon arriving in the Portuguese colony of Macao, Madonna, 27, and Sean Penn, 25, fled a welcoming crowd, only to be ambushed outside their hotel room by Hong Kong Standard Correspondent Leonel Borralho. A long scuffle with Penn and bodyguards ensued, after which Borralho sued for $1 million. Two days later, reporters on stakeout took off after the couple, and the resulting car chase created a huge traffic jam, with bystanders cheering Madonna on. The pair finally consented...