Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history is more cryptic than that of Noah Cross (John Huston in Chinatown), ruthless Los Angeles pioneer, father to his own granddaughter and possible sire of Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai). He is the omnipotent wizard in Thomson's sinister Oz, an America whose center is located in Bedford Falls, Neb. It is a mythical place of lost innocence and the home of George Bailey, who watches SAC bombers over the cornfields of his youth and concludes that "America is just a story of its men and women going from happiness to stoicism...
...since the Communist takeover in 1949 have U.S. Navy warships been permitted to enter Chinese waters. So when Peking last August agreed that American vessels could pay a port call, Washington laid plans to send three ships to Shanghai this spring. But last month the proposed visit hit an unexpected mine. Hu Yaobang, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, announced that only "conventional" American ships would be welcome. Since the U.S. refuses as a matter of policy to state which of its vessels carry nuclear weapons, the two countries were at a diplomatic impasse. Last week Peking and Washington...
Severe price hikes scare the Chinese, who recall the hyperinflation of the late 1940s, when in three years Shanghai wholesale prices rose 7 1/2 million times. That disaster helped bring the Communists to power. To stop shopkeepers from using the government plan as an excuse for additional increases, 11,000 inspectors will tour Peking in search of price gouging...
This is the world that awaits David Treadup in 1905 when his ship docks at Shanghai. He is a big man, good with his hands, though a little slow with his schoolbooks. One of Treadup's best assets is the ability to immerse himself in % drudgery, a fate he prepared for as a farm boy in upstate New York and an oarsman for Syracuse, where he heard the call to Jesus. Superficially, Treadup is a model of muscular Christianity. But he is also built to carry a good deal of symbolic weight. "What is moving in his story," writes Hersey...
...capstone of Navy Secretary John Lehman's visit to Peking last August was an agreement for three U.S. destroyers to call at Shanghai this year, the first such visit since the Communists took power in 1949. Talking to reporters last week, however, Chinese Communist Party Chief Hu Yaobang dropped a bit of a bomb. Asked by an Australian reporter whether the warships would be nuclear armed, Hu replied that the U.S. had pledged they would...