Word: hong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Would local turkeys suffice? No, decided the hotel's French chef Georges Mompezat, who sampled and loftily dismissed fowls from China and Hong Kong as too scrawny. He opted instead for 40 frozen toms from California ("There was no comparison"). His gold-embossed menu also called for fresh garden vegetables, always in uncertain supply in Peking, so a professor from the Peking Agricultural College was asked to oversee. Some came from the hotel's own greenhouse, but the canned cranberries had to be flown in from Hong Kong. Other ingredients were home grown: 176 lbs. of beef...
...only thing that will make the night really beautiful is for you to have confidence in yourself," said Hotel Manager Peter Sun, who was born in Hong Kong and trained at Cornell in his pep talk. His staff masked whatever opening-night jitters they had. "I am feeling very proud to serve President Reagan and Premier Zhao," said Waiter Liu Zhihong, 21, who was chosen to serve the President's table. "I am only a little nervous There was no cause to worry. The Chinese cleaned every plate of their Thanksgiving dinner...
After dark, the protestors spread sleeping bags across the sidewalk, brought in Chinese food from the Hong Kong restaurant, cases of Budweiser and settled down for the night...
...groomed teams of multilingual emissaries. China has succeeded in courting Pakistan without alienating India; it has wooed the moderate gulf states and also convinced the Palestine Liberation Organization that Peking alone understands its plight. Most important of all, China seems close to recovering sovereignty over the British colony of Hong Kong on its own terms. Last week, while visiting Peking for the twelfth round of talks, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe became the first British official to concede publicly that Britain will return the colony to China when its lease over the New Territories expires...
...power. Numerous blocks of apartments have remained empty for months while different groups bickered over how to divide the spoils. Some officials have made a killing in the confusion. Zheng Suzhi, party secretary in Zhejiang province, blithely canceled more than $200,000 in debts owed the state by some Hong Kong merchants, who had bought apartments in China. Zheng was rewarded by the beneficiaries with an invitation to Hong Kong and $6,000 worth of electronic equipment. When his racket was exposed, Zheng received no punishment beyond "discipline within the party...