Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After 14 years of fame as the best known drink in Harvard Square, the Hong Kong lounge's popular scorpion bowl may be doomed to legend if Gov. Michael S. Dukakis next week signs a proposal intended to reduce drunk driving accidents...
Your report on the agreement for the return of Hong Kong to China [WORLD, Oct. 8] missed the point. It questioned whether the unique capitalistic system, which has enabled the colony to prosper, can survive until the changing of the guard in 1997. Nothing destroys capitalistic enterprises more effectively than fear, well-founded or not. I wonder if the prime movers in Hong Kong's commercial community will wait around to test China's promises and performance...
...doubt that the Hong Kong accord will last 50 days, much less 50 years...
...Then, for an unprecedented nine days in a row, the low-profile leader appeared on the front page of People's Daily. In most of the articles quoting him, he pointedly asserted that his "open-door" policy on foreign trade would continue and that the capitalist system in Hong Kong would be preserved for at least 50 years after China reassumes control of the British colony in 1997. Finally and most dramatically, Deng grandly declared a fortnight ago that he was planning "a kind of revolution" in his country's economy...
...azure waters of the Persian Gulf and firing an Exocet missile into a neutral ship. After a 22-day lull in the Iran-Iraq tanker war, an Iraqi pilot last week claimed another victim, the 25th of the conflict. World Knight, a 258,437-ton tanker owned by Hong Kong Shipping Magnate Sir Y.K. Pao, was bound for Kharg Island to pick up Iranian crude oil. Two British officers and four Chinese seamen were killed immediately as the Exocet demolished the ship's aft superstructure. Two more Chinese and one Indian died later. The toll was the worst from...