Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long sought to add the booming Far East to its flight plan. "We're ecstatic," said United Chairman Richard Ferris. "For years we've been an applicant in all Pacific route cases, with only one recent success." That was a new service linking Seattle to Seoul, Tokyo and Hong Kong, which United began in 1983 after a five-year wait for foreign agreement. The takeover of the Pan Am routes, while subject to review abroad, should encounter no such delays...
...course, Epps says, students who have forgotten to don that cloake once or twice, or have snuck into the Hong Kong on a Friday night, need not fear the Administrative Board. Votes of the Faculty during the last two centuries have added, amended and eliminated the old rules, creating today's Handbook for Student and making the puritanical rest restrictions obsolete...
...increase in tourists this winter. Japan Club Tours in Los Angeles has doubled its business to Asia and is now booking 1,500 customers a month. Says Co-Owner John Graeler: "People are banging down our doors for tours. My partner and I are forever running over to Hong Kong to look for more hotel space. First we beg, then we scream, then we rant and rave, and we still don't get as much as we'd like." A cruise to Brazil to observe the progress of Halley's comet is already sold out at prices of about...
William Mathers, an American yachtsman and businessman who lived in Singapore, was sailing from that city to Hong Kong last July when his 80-ft. schooner was seized by armed Vietnamese. Mathers, 41, and his companions--two Frenchwomen, the two sons of one of them, and an Australian engineering student--were taken into custody for allegedly crossing into Viet Nam's territorial waters. While his friends were allowed to go free last fall, Mathers was charged with spying and held for almost nine months in solitary confinement...
...Koreans protested the trespassing of the Chinese ships, and the Chinese Foreign Ministry acknowledged the mistake. South Korean Minister of Culture Lee Won Hong also publicly stressed that there had been "no political motives" involved in the incident and referred vaguely to a "simple scuffle" on board. By tiptoeing around the word mutiny, he helped his government slip out of the potentially embarrassing situation of having to put the mutinous crewmen on trial...