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The Correspondent, No.5 1980

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ON THE MOVE A number of prominent and longtime F.C.C. members have saddled up and ridden out of town

AWARDS FOR F.C.C. MEMBERS

since our last issue.

left the Hongkong Stondard for the heady P.R. climes offered by Australia. Brian Mair has transferred back to AFP'S head office in Paris. David Bonavia has departed Hong Kong for his new posting in Marsha Prysuska has

VINO So successful was the June 9 wine sale, the F.C,C. is going to do

it

again at a second one, with prices

below $100 per bottle and more of the grape available. The next sale

will be luly

Beijing as correspondent lor The Times of London and The For

Eostern Economic Review.

Bill Holstein of UPI won

an

Overseas Press Club award (best business news reporting) for economic dispatches filed from China.

And lan Wilson was a member of the CBS team which took the Edward R. Murrow Award for best TV interpretation on foreign affairs, The award grew out of a

report on Vietnamese refugees

on

Pulau Bidong island.

7,

at 10 a.m. in the 18th floor library. lt's first come, first

EXPENSE

served, and some 1,600 bottles of

ACCOUNT

beginning

wine will be going at wholesale prices.

Mike Keats regarded

COUNTRY SUPPERS The evening Country Suppers

on the 14th floor are being continued. From 7 to 10 p.m. $14gets you a three-course meal.

with raised eyebrows an expense account from the Hotel Lotte in Seoul listing

"1 madame." At W2,513. When he queried the corre-

spondent involved, Keats was informed that the gent indeed had ordered a Croque Madame-which turns out to be a grilled ham and cheese sandwich topped with one fried egg sunny side up.

EARLY BIRDS Club Manager Julian Slattery has asked us to note that the Club

provides breakfast from 7 to 1 0 a.m. daily except Sundays and public holidays, and at reasonable prices.

And speaking of breakfast, the incoming Board of Governors has broken with tradition. lnstead during the of holding its meetings .1980-1981

cocktail hour, the will be sitting at 8

a.m.

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