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the next few weeks but the Board felt it was better to open our new doors as soon as possible and provide limited

the FCC moved to Hongkong from Shanghai in 1950 the Club has

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five years tenure, a pleasant state of affairs in these times when obtaining long periods of occupancy is difficult.

All Club members owe a heartv vote of thanls to Donald Wise, Mike Keats and other members of the former Board who did so much to find home for the FCC.

facilities rather than wait until the

a new

redevelopment was complete.

Everyone in Hongkong will realise the enormous problems with which we were faced in trying to obtain clubhouse premises in the hectic climate of real estate speculation

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am sure that those of you who discovered the price of drinks and food outside during the month that we

were closed will agree that

this

decision was the correct one.

which prevailed during the time

Please bear with the staff until all Club facilities are functioning; they are

were seeking a new home.

doing their best in

circumstances

which are somewhat trying.

When the work is finished we will have what will be one of the most

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premises less splendid than those we occupy today.

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The new FCC president Hugh Van Es has been taking photographs since he got a discarded camera at the age of 10. Some of his pictures taken in Vieinam and Cambodia captured the essence of rnen at war. His classic photo of the last Americans filing onto waiting helicopters on top of the Êmbassy in Saigon signalled more clearly than reams of copy that the war in lndochina had finally come to an end.

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Hugh van Es first went to war in Vietnam as a soundman for NBC in 1968 and found himself in the middle of Cholon during the Tet offensive it was just like going to the movies.

"There were guns going off and mortars exploding and houses burning but I was so green I wasn't scared at all," he recalls. "l didn't know what the hell was going on.

"The first day it was like being on a movie set, then we began to film the dead and wounded and it suddenly came home to me that it was all for real."

He soon learned that tear is a frontline newsman's greatest asset.

It helped keep him alive through the rest of the war in lndochina.

"l was working with a very experienced

Vietnamese cameraman who had been covering the war since he was a kid and he taught me the rules of battle survival," Van Es recalls today.

"The main rules were to keep your head down, move fast, avoid side lanes and buildings which might hold snipers."

You learn these things pretty quickly when you and the cameraman are connected by an unbreakable electronic umbilical cord and the two of you have to move as a team leaping over the bodies of those who had not got the message.

The Dutchman was an adePt PuPil' Out in the field in Vietnam, he carried a camera as well as his sound equipment and everywhere he went he took photographs which upon return to Saigon he would turn over to AP picture chief Horst Faas.

When it came to a parting of the way with NBC he started with the wire service and stayed there until the American role in the war began to wind down in the early 1970s. lnterest in Vietnam was waning and AP began to lay off staff.

The photographer, by now one of the bestknown and most respected lensmen covering the

war, was swiftly snapped up by UPI's

Bob

Schnitzlein.

He was based in Hongkong but after he started

work for UPI he was on the first plane back to Saigon.

Apart from R&R trips outside, he was to spend most of his tยกme in the country until the Communist victory.

He left two months after the fall of Saigon two months after his picture of the last Americans climbing into a helicopter on top of the Embassy had been on front pages of newspapers throughout the world.

Back in Hongkong, UPI offered him a staff job.

But there was a hitch; it meant he would have to go to work in America.

"No way," he said. "l'd like the job but only if I can stay in Asia." ln the quiet post-wear years there were no jobs so Van Es reluctantly left UPI and cast about for new directions in which to aim his Nikons.

He never thought of looking for a job doing anything else but news photography because he had never done anything else since he left school in his native Hilversum near Amsterdam and landed a job with a photo news bureau.

His first assignment was covering soccer in football-mad Holland.

When he was 1O an uncle in the import-export business had experimented with a Yugoslav

of stores, a wounded G.l. grimaces in agony during the battle for Hamburger Hill' of the pictures Van Es took which showd the horrorc of the war.

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ยกust one This famous Van Es shot shows a white soldier trying to give artificial resuscitation to a wounded black comrade during the fighting on Hamburger Hill. He failed. The soldier died.

camera which looked awkward but was technically very advanced.

The camera was too rrgly to sell so the uncle gave it to young Hugh.

It was the start of a love affair with photography which has lasted ever since.

After national service he worked for picture agencies and papers in Holland then went to Britain to cover the pop music scene for a Dutch

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musical publication.

It was there in 1967 that along with

another

Dutchman he began to talk about trying to get to the Far East and they went to Paris where a Vietnamese official promised them they could get visas if they went to Phompehn.

They went - and they waited, and waited, and waited...

The visa never materialised.

"Finally Hanoi said we couldn't go because they could not guarantee our safety because of the American bombing," Van Es says. "lt was just an excuse."

His airline ticket took him on to Hongkong and it seemed stupid to turn around and go back to Europe without spending more time in Asia, so onwards he came.

It was early '!967 and a few weeks after his

arrival all hell was to break out in the Colony as the Cultural Revolution spilled over the border and the riots started.

He got a job on the China Mail covering the disturbances but started trying to apply to all and sundry for a job in lndochina.

NBC were looking for a soundman and a friend, Mike Marriott, told NBC correspondent Welles Hangen (later to die in Cambodia) that he knew just the right man for the job. "l'd never done it before, didn't have any idea what to do, but Mike quickly explained it to me and a couple of days later I was on a plane for Saigon."

It was a trip he was to make many times over the next seven years.

A couple of times he almost didn't come back.

Once was up on Highway One when North Vietnamese forces smashed across the Cambodian border.

He was in a ditch when there came a lull in the

firing and he cautiously poked up his head to see what was happening.

"There was a "whoosh" and a 61mm mortar shell smashed down into the paddy field 10 feet in front of me. "lf it hadn't been a dud I would have been

dead."

Then there was the time he leapt on a C123 taxiing for take-off from besieged Khe Sanh in 1 968.

As the transport laboured into the air a millionto-one shot by a lucky Communist mortar crew sent a bomb into an engine.

The plane crashed and the only escape was through a foot-wide window.

"The pilot yelled that we were on fire and were

pictures have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Stern and many other publications.

Can a freelance news photographer - even one as well-known as Hugh Van Es - make a decent living in Asia today?

Well, he admits, there are lean times.

"Sometimes it is terrific and sometimes not so terrific. "lf you got an invasion of Afghanistan every year life would be more financially stable for freelancers," he says.

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going to blow

up," Van

Es remembers.

"l still didn't know how I had survived the crash but the thought of being trapped and burned to death certainly helped us recover

quickly and try to get out of the escape hatch.

"Only the pilot and I were still left inside when a marine wearing a flak jacket and ammo belts got stuck in the window.

"We pulled him out backwards pretty damn fast, stripped him down and shoved him back out.

"When I got out I was covered in blood and shaking in fright and shock and one of the other newsmen came up to me in the bunker where I had sheltered and gave me his canteen. "lt was full of whisky and I drained the lot.

"There was a tremendous barrage that night but I slept through it like a baby."

During one of his many trips to Hongkong, in 1968 he was sitting in the old FCC on the 25th floor of the Hilton one Saturday morning when he was introduced to a stunning young Cantonese girl.

They were married the next Year. "l blame the FCC for that," he says with mock bitterness as his wife, Annie, takes a swing at him.

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Hollingworth is back living in Honglong where she is writing

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on the late Chairman Mao Tse-tung.

One close friend, Baron Maclæhose,

has recently departed and a Oub member recalls seeing lhe vice-regal limousine sweeping out of the drive of the Univenity of Hong[ong, where Clare has an offìce, with her in lone and stately spendor in the back.

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Second into the Club was Tony Paul of Reøders Digest and Asitweek closeþ followed by Sripbroker Chandroth Rag[æ,an.

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A story by Britain's Journalist of the Year, John Pilger of the Daily Mirror' caused an uproar in Thailand earlier this year. He claimed to have bougl4 a "slave" glrl-in Bangkok. Thai authorities maintain the story was false. The

Spectatoiand the Far Eastern Economic Review proþed Pilge¡'s story and came ub with some disquieting evidence that indicated the London-based -reporter had bbn conned by tThai middleman. Despite numerous denials by Thai officials, the Daily Mirror did not see fit to publish any retractions with theprominence with which they printed the originatclaim. Derek Davies of the FEER, however, gave Pilger an entire page to air his grievances with the Review's disclosures about Ihe way-in which the "õlave girl" siory was obtained. "Overblown, spiteful and craven," were some of Pilglr's comments on the Review story. The Review published his rebuttal - whictr is more than the Mirror did in response to the denials of the original story. K.S.

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Hong), he pontificates on 1997 and all that . .

This is not "risk" joumalism

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or rather it is, except that

the risk is run by the poor local stringer for the

grand

correspondent's newspaper, who remains behind to carry the can. And carry it he does, no mistake.

Already the offìcialdom of his country suspects him of

masquerading behind every "By a correspondent" byline, and, if he is not directly blamed for the visitor's copy, he is blamed for failing to brief him on all the positive aspects of the story. (Perhaps that is why we poor fools in this.part of the world, despite all the harsh lessons of the past, still waste hours "briefing" the visitor - even paying for the bludger's drinks).

It can go further: the authorities of Bangladesh once told all local stringers that they would be held directly responsible for any unfriendly copy published in the papers they served.

Meanwhile, the

geat travelling

l¡ndon or New York

panjandrum is back in complacently contemplating yet

another byline under yet another banne¡ headline, waiting for the inevitable telephone calls from NBC or the BBC plus, of course, the television talk shows. For has not his latest fearless feature established him as an authority, ready

to expound on the subject, whatever and wherever it may be, both courageously and simplistically, with a mind uncluttered by knowledge?

That is not the best kind of journalism. The best kind can lead to expulsion or imprisonment, depending on the pressman's nationality.

That is "risk" joumalism.

(Derek Dovies is editor of the Far Eastern Economíc Review.)

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By Derek Davies

In the controversy between John Pilger (1979 British "Joumalist of the Year") and the Review, Pilger has claimed that he represents "the best kind of joumalism" - "Risk Journalism". I fail to see what is particularly risky about writing an inadequately-researched story on the Thai traffìc in "slave girls" from the safety of London. Nor do I think that the best kind of joumalist reacts to any questioning of his or her accvracy by issuing writs, against fellow pressmen. .

The "best kind of joumalist" for my money' and the one who really takes risks, is not the peripatetic "foreign correspondent" who flies in from his base in l,ondon or New York, but the ptessman who stays put and, day by day or week by week, tries to "tell it like it is" in the country where he lives.

Everyone of us who lives and works in Asia has suffered from the visiting correspondent. He is resented in Peking, when he gets to interview leaders denied to the local press community. He is fea¡ed in Seoul, where he flies in for a week and departs to write a piece about the oppression of human rights.

He is unwelcome in Southeast Asia when he appears only when there is a war or a refugee crisis, flying off to the

Middle East or Africa (there are wars in plenty for the vultures these days), after filing a story which helps to convince readers in Peoria, Wolverhampton or Wagga Wagga that the Domino Theory is still at work (although the dominos have in fact tumed out to be the communist states of Indochina, who now languish in poverty under the domination of }Ianoi or Moscow).

He causes wry amusement in Hongkong where, after a 48-hour gallop round (often courtesy of GIS or a local

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AnOld lce Hou¡cl¡ftan¡lor cdrrr l. The old symbol of the buflding that gave Ice House Street lts name. be ve chaos.

llbert Road, the tou floors of the Clubhouse prèsent a vista of Old Hongkong.

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8. First ínto the premises to survey progress

were members of the Board. goes the sign that means a new home for up 9. And thõ roreign Õorrespondents' Club.

Bye bye

Bangkok The talented Barry Wain of the Asfun Wall Street foumalwas given his marching orders from Thailand following a story on conditions in a refugee camp.

furivingin Hongkong, the diplomatic correspondent of the paper said he had tried to discus his explusion with Thai authorities in Bangþok, but they had not wanted to talk to him.

"I've got no idea why I wæ expelled," he said.

Earlier this year the AIVSJ was banned in Thailand for several weeks because of dn article on the future of the monarchy by Michael Schmfoker, who wæ later declared persona non grata. lVain, incidently, is author of an excellent book on Vientamese refugees TheRefusd whichhas got tremendous reviews in America and was on the New York Timeslist of recommended summer reading. The Thai authorities indicate he can return.

Holgerrilas the lucky one lVhen former Hongþong Newsuteek man Holger Jensen was thrown out of Argentina during the Falklands war, he was considerably more fortunate than many native Argentinian nervsmen.

recent yean, scribes in the fugentine have had a thorny path to

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follow.

Civil rights groups

including

Amnesty Intemational estimate that 20 reporten have been killed since the military took control in 1976.

Another 60 have vanished and the presumption is they have fallen victim

to the extremist death squads who prey on those seen as enemies of the regime.

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A further 3ü) have been jailed and of them, especially thoæ

number

who are Jewish, have been tortured.

The President of the US Newspaper

Guild, Charles Perlik, says: 'The fugentinian generals have the wont record in the hemisphere when it comes to terrorising members of the media."

Held by the

Blast at the

American freelance lensman Bruce Thom¡s and Danistr joumalist Trods

Gregorio Cendana has lodged an

wily Pathans Beeb Aagaard made it safely across Afghanistan dodging Russian soldien and Afghan troopers.

But when they reached the sanctuary of Pakistan they ran into

trouble.

They were kidnapped by hill tribesmen and held for ransom.

The newsmen thougþt they were going to be shot by the kidnappers but were eventually rescued by Pakistan govemment forces.

Philippine" Information Minister

dwellers and a girl who claimed to be

the survivor of a massacre by Govemment troops.

Cendana said no attempt had been made to balance the programme.

Posing as a Pole?

Another Navsweek man recently in

strife was former Hongkong

hand

who was ordered out of the Soviet Union for suppoædly using "impermissible Andrew Nagorski

joumalistic practices. (It would be interesting to know precisely what

journalistic practices øre permitted in the Þople's Paradise.)

Tøss said Nagonki had been called to the Foreign Ministry Pres Department where he was informed

his

press ciedentials were

being

withdrawn and that he stror¡ld get out of the country as soon æ possible.

The men in the Kremlin say Andy posed as a Soviet reporter and as a Polish tourist and also broke traræl rules laid down for foreigr reporters, charges which the Newsweek man described as bogus.

The American

Gorærnment

apparently agreed with Andy; in what looked like a tit-for-tat ban, the State Department in lVastrington reft¡sed to

úlow lzvesti¿'s chief

correspondent,

official protest with the.BAC Oaiming

Melor Str¡nra, back into the corntry until Nagonki was permitted back into

a programme which gave a "distorted"

the Soviet Union.

view of political and economic conditions in the country had been made under false pretences.

His complaint said a BBC crew led

by Tony Isaacs had used subterfuge to obtain access to news sources.

Ihe programme featured interviews with with lhilippines Govemment technocrats who had defected to the communists, a rebel priest, slum

Every FCC member gets a free copy of The CORRESPONDENT Extra copies are on sale in the Club office for $10 a copy.

Grin and bear¡t

The final luncheon sPeaker in the old premises was American comedian Morcy Ämsterdam.

He wæ in Hongkong for a one-off

show

to mark

the last nigþt at the

Reprlse Bay Hotel before

it

was

SRO crowd.

And so she should have.

She is a senior executive with the

"But in Hongkong, if you stand still minutès theY build a toilet around you."

And'if you thougþt MoreY looked thi¡rner than when you last saw him on TV, you were rigþt.

He's-got a new diet

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good, spit it out.

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move from Sutherland House to Lower Albert Road.

wine.

The charming Baroness impressed even wine buff Barry Burton with her knowledge ofthe grape.

for two

BlackwêIl w¿ìs one of the luncheon speakers who addressed members during the interregnum between the

homeles period.

She spoke, naturally enougþ, of

demolished.

"Everywhere I go, theY tear the place down," Morey told an amused

Hollywood dress designer Richard

The Club was fortunate indeed to have Baroness Philippine de Rothschild as a luncheon speaker during the

Rothschild company which produces the supreme Mouton vintages.

During her talk, Club memben

enthusiastically downed considerable quantities of Rothschild Cadet.

"Even Rothschilds cannot afford to drink the Mouton every day," she said regretfully.

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He is the man whose views on \romen are published every Year in a list of

10 worst-dressed celebrities.

Mr. Blaclsilell, æ he likes to be known, gaYe his oPinion on the dresses of some Hollywood sta¡s and various other well-known people in the

oublic eve.

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gave

fashion industry.

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his views on

the

Mr. Blackwell did

not make anY too'smart comments

about clothes being wom bY women

FCC members in the

audience

althougþ he was seen looking sidewa-ys

at thJ outfit being

sPorted bY the TDC's llilary Ale¡rander who was one of a panel ôf¡udges who questioned

him ãbout how he notorious list.

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During the first weeks at the new Club patrons suffered a lack of air conditioning.

It was the height of the sticky summer during which Hongkong went through a series of heatwaves.

The staff had to grin and bear it, but to make things a bit more comfortable manager Hetnz Grabner ordered them out of their scarlet jackets and into Club teeshirts.

Many members thought it was a move which should be made a perrnanent feature, at least in the bar.

OurSoueretþn Landlady The lease on the new premises is signed by FCC representatives on the one hand and the

of "Our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth

representatives on the other

the Second (hereinafter called the Landlady."

If we have any problems with the neighbours, presumably we can call on the Landlady to deal with them.

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Two FCC veterans - Burt Okuley and the popular Chao Chin-chen who presides over the bar are both recovering after recent bouts in hospital.

Burt, editor of Hongkong Newswire, was cleared by docton after a nasty scare that seemed to worry his friends more than it did him.

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freeltmch

PR men were recentlY told put some news in their news

to

releases.

The tip came from Wong Sek-yeung, editor of the respected Chinese language dailY Wah

Old dice players never die, they just fadebway into a corner at the FCC and play Yangtse.

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Mr. Wong told PR men theY could not exPect to Put out purely promotional releases which did not contain any news and expect papers to Publish them.

"Don't expect free advertising," he said.

If you think that we had trouble moving into our new home, spare a thought for our counterparts in the sister club in Bangkok, the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand.

Thereby hangs a horrific tale...

According to our Thai contacts, the sorry saga oftheir search for a new home began as far back as 1977 when negotiations began with the Regent Thailand Ltd., operators of the President Hotel.

A contract was signed for a FCCT clubhouse to to be built on the top of a new wing of the hotel.

It was due to open five years ago last month.

It didn't.

And despite a long series of contracts, negotiations, agreements and promises, the proposed clubhouse is still but a dream.

The result is a legal battle between the FCCT and the hotel operators which is now before the Thai courts.

And we think we've got

troubles...

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Club manager Heinz Grabner cuts into a roast Pig on the balcony of the old club building to mark the end of the FCC occupation of the Sutherland House premises. The last daY was a

wild time with members

gathering to raise their glasses for the last time in the bars on the

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Waving goodbye to Hongkong recently was US Consulate

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Hutchison is continuing to inveqt inthe Hong Kong through its active involvement'in growth areas of Hong Kong's economy, such as development; containerisation, warehousing and transport; general trading, China trade and quarrying '\rye're also one of Hong Kong's leading retailers.

Hutchison is ideally positioned to help you participate in Hong Kong's excellent future growth prospects. We are not suggesting that we can eliminate all the risks that go with involvement in Hong Kong's effervescent economy. We will however be able to help you correctly identify your opportunities and quickly resolve the inevitable problems. Without leaving anything to chance.

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you want to know more about us, simply send us a business ca¡d and we'll send you a copy of our l98l Annual Report. The figures speak for themselves.

In an age-old ritual, the cup of Chinæe fortune sticks is genlly shaken until one stick detaches itself from the rest. The mnsoge thot it beaß is a clue to future prospects.

HUTCHISON WHAMPOA LIMITED

22nd Floor, Hutchison House, Hong Kong.

Telephone: 5-230161. Telex:73176 HILHK HX.