The Correspondent, November 1987

CONTENTS

VOLUME

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President's *essage

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THE CORRISPONIIEilT

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NOVEMBER 1987

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Viewpoint

The Corresþondent, says Derek Davies, should become a forum in which members can express themselves, deliver pats on backs, pen complaints,

The riots that rocked Tibet recently weren't isolated incidents, according to Tibet specialist and international law expert Dr. Michael C. van Walt van Praag. He addressed a professional luncheon last month.

vent spleens.

THE ZOO

Technology Ð

fim Davidson

Cover: A fashion

show at the FCC? Unheard of before. But a new

beginning was made on Oct 13 when six beauties from Down Under arched their supple torsoes to the strains of Advance Australia Fair (A-lso see P.18-19)

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No matter what your attitude is towards computers, they're here to stay. And desktop oublishing is easier than you

may t}ink.

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Club news

After an actionless summer, the FCC became the scene of celebrity parades.

Letter from AmericaT America hasn't forgotten its war coffespondents, reports former president and a war correspondent,

Al Kaff.

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New members

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Nearþ two dozen new

We are proud to present yet another Star Attraction at the Harbour View!

Reporting Asia

members were admitted between September and

Foreign publications have taken a hammering in Southeast Asia. But the landscape there is not uniformly bleak, writes Barry Wain, managing editor of Thz Asinn Wall Street tournal.

October.

]im Davidson paves the way for Ronnie Corbett who will perform on December The Stylistics on December 17 and The Searchers on December 2ß, 1987. All shows are complemented by a superb 4-course dinner.

For reservations please call the Banquet Manag et

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This time it's Jim Davidson/ one of Britain's most popular entertainers and comedians who willprovide an evening of fun and laughter on Saturday, November 2I, 1987.

It's showtime once again!

CREDITS Photos: Passion and the Davenport

Publications Sub-committee: Berton lVoodwar ð. (C fuirmnn) Paul Balieìd Sinan Fisek

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Derek Davies, Berton Woodward, Paul Irene Bayfìetd, Carolyn Hubbard, Ken Ball, BarryGrindrod. Entertainment Committee Brian Jeffries, Paul O'Shea, Paul Bayfield, Wendy Hughes. Workroom Sub-committee Balì, BarryGrindrod,Sinan Fisêk.

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PRESIDENT'S

MESSAGE

A new begirudng ere we go, here we go Without going into too many embarrassing reasons for disappearances of previous editions of The Corresþondent, we invite you to welcome the latest reincarnation.

Basically the Board decided that if a Foreign Correspondents' Club cannot produce a magazine which looks professional and indeed is professional does not deserve to have a magazine at all. We have, therefore, entrusted The Cowesþondenl to the gentle hands of

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But as editors of previous editions of the prevrous Conesþondenl have found, the publication is very much dependant on the support of Club members. It needs contributions from writers, photographers, cartoonists and any other creative talent. It needs ideas. It needs Letters to the Editor. It should reflect the Club its activities, its membership as a whole and its individual members. It should become

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The Cowesþondent wilI be sent to the Club's entire membership, which comprises a goodly collection of consumers: of other publications, of communications and office equipment, of airlines and hotels, of food and booze, and so on. Those ofyou who have control over advertising budgets should consider this audience seriously (we hope soon to document its range and purchasing power with the results of a readership survey).

Perhaps The Corræþondznt's early editions will benefit from goodwill; we trust, however, that it soon will not have to rely on charitable inserts, as the actress said to the bishop, but will prove to be an attractive medium for advertisers in its own right.

The FCC merits a lively, well-produced publication.

We hereby launch this ship, blessing it and all that sail in her. It would be comfortable to say that it is now up to Visrva Nathan; but it's not: it's up to you.

a forum in which members can

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Promising responses

Remembering the fallen war coffespondents

me against this dent.

"Don'tgel

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for relaunching The ComesþondBnt. Nor did any seriously doubt its scope to attract advertisements and become a self-supporting publi-

cation. Their doubts centred on editorial success. Could

members be relied upon for editorial contributions so that the space between advertisements could regularþ be filled with interesting copy, theY wondered.

Whether or-not their concern is well-founded, the fact is Club members collectively represent a wealth of creative talent; and that wealth is not confined to those who are directly involved with the information industry. Contributions which some of our associate members make to other publications confirm this' These resources pooled together can make The Corresþondent a

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NovEMBER

1987

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Middle East.

In Arlington National Cemetery, where America's war dead rest, a memorial tree and a memorial stone were dedicated last year to joumaiists and photographers killed while covering armed conflicts for US women \Mere recorded on a plaque that was

in Vietnam; and a niece of Alec Shimkin,

Lawrence Jenco, who spent 19 months as a

welcome.

In a letter that was enclosed with his contribution Al Kaff said,

he

N GETTING this magazine going, we have a number of club members to thank for sharing their advice

and

experience.

Raise a giass, please, to Richard Ashworth, Chris Cheney, Stephen Ellis, Alan Fairnington, Richard Gocher, Robert Har1and, Roy Howard, Simon Martin, Michael O'Neill, Bernard PeWin, Michael Rosenberg, Alec Stables and Freddie Wadsworth.

Special thanks to Bob Klaverkamp for helping to put me in touch with many of these gents. And a toast, too, to Michael Dalton, iongtime Learned Friend of the Club.

Berton Woodward Chairmt¿n, Publimtions Sub-committee

children oÍLarry Burrows, Life magazine, killed in Laos in 1971, and of James J. McElroy, military combat correspondent, killed on Iwo Jima in 1945; children of Paul Schutzer, Life,killed in Israel in 1967, and died in 1966 of a tropical disease contracted

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contributions on time to meet the deadline for this reincarnation.

A special thanks to Barry Wain who, though not a member of the Club now, contributed an article on a topic that is of major interest to all newsmen and others interested in the freedom of information.

A longtime menber of the Club and a regular at the main bar once said to me: "if you need entertainment, come to the main bar; all kinds of drama unfolds here." Arthur Hacker begins to satirise some of those scenes with the introduction of The Zoo, a regular feature. Other artists like him might see other situations that could liven up this magazine. Such contributions are always

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gathered in New York City's Sheraton Centre Hotel to see the plaque unveiled.

The memorial was unveiled by grand-

of Maggie Higgins, Herald Tribune, who

The Corresþondznt alvtays was welcome reading and congratulated the Club for revivir,g it as a professional journal.

"Such publications," he said, "are one of the finest projects which a professional club such as ours can adopt."

With this issue we take the first step towards that goal.

Arthur Hacker

and Zelda Cawthorne for sending their

friends of journalists who died in battle

This year, the names of those men and unveiled in New York City on October 7 by children and grandchildren of fallen war corespondents. The plaque lists 231 men and women - Americans, Japanese, Filipinos and other nationalities who lost their lives while covering the Spanish Civil War, Worìd War II, the Korean War, theVietnam War and "Those Little Wars," as Ted Yates called 20th Century revolts, coups d'etat, hostilities, presences, police actions, riots, interventions and rebellions which "if you cover them, it's surprising how much they resemble war." Yates was killed in Jordan in 1967.

The honowed correspondents died on combat assþments from battlefield wounds or illnesses or while travelling to or from hostilities. A special tribute to Teny Anderson, the AP correspondent still held hostage in Beirut, was deìivered by Father

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ing with The Review.

Two hturdred and thirty-one colTespondents lost their lives covering armed conflicts for US

media.

Thanks for all the help

During the past year, 45 leading airlines and Aero Industry Advertisers invested in 460 pages of advertis-

By AI Kaff

prisoner

in Beirut, where he knew

the correspondent. Anderson's sister attended the ceremony.

THE SPONSORS: The idea to memorialise

war

correspondents

was initiated by

Carmella LaSpada board chairman of No Greater Love, a humanitarian organisation which provides programmes of friendship and care for Americans who have lost family members in war or terrorism.

Other sponsors were the Overseas Press Club of America, the National Press Club of Washington D.C., and Sigma Delta Chi,

an

American society

journalists.

About 200 people

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of

professional

most of them former and

v/ar coffespondents, and relatives

freelancer , on Newsweek assignment, missing in Vietnam since 1972.

Unable to attend but listed on the unveiling programme were Yates' son and the grandson ofByron Darnton, Th¿ New York T'imes, k:lled in New Guinea in 1942.

EYEWITNESS' EXHIBITS: The reception hall featwed an exhibit of photographs of and by correspondents in Paris, the Han River, Saigon and other flashpoints where US troops have fought since World War I. Printed notes at the ceremony said that only 36 reporters were accredited to the

American Expeditionary Force in World War I. Accreditions totalled 1,100 in World War II, 350 in Korea and as many as 5,000 in Vietnam, according to the programme notes.

Miss LaSpada said that no American correspondent was killed in World War I, according

to the

historic records

she

searched.

TRIBUTES BY VETERANS: Brief tributes were delivered by 16 former r¡/ar correspondents, many of them old Asia hands.

They were: From World War II Andy Rooney, Stars & Strþes (now CBÐ; Drew

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made the first radio news broadcast from Shanghai. Vietnam War - Dan Rather, CBS; Eddie Adams, AP (now Time and Parad.emagazine); Vo Huynh, NBC; Hugh Mulligan, AP, and Peter Jennings, ABC. John Rich, now retired from NBC was master of ceremonies. He covered World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

Korea was the last war with formal

military censorship of battlefield

dis-

patches. At the ceremony, Korean War correspondents sang a song to the tune of "Glory Glory Hallelujah":

"Mine eyes have seen the censor With my copy on his knee; He was crossing out the passages That mean the most to me.

This sentence hurts morale As it's defined in Section Three, This passage must come outl"

THE FIRST MEMORIAL: Miss LaSpada said the first US memorial to journalists killed in battle was a war corespondents arch erected in Mysersville, Maryland, in 1896 to honow writers, painters and artists who coverecl the American Civil War. Other memorials listed in the programme

notes are located in the Pentagon (1948 and 1972),the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan (1976), Munsan, Korea (1977), Ohio

University (1981), Washington's Nationai Press Club (1985) and Arlington National Cemetery (1986). The plaque dedicated in New York City now hangs in the Overseas Press Club. Copies are located in the

National Press Club and the headquarters of Sigma Delta Chi. Hosts at the New York ceremony were Jim Plante, president-elect of Sigma Delta

Middleton, The New York Times; Enc

Chi, Herb Kupferberg, president of

Sevareid, CBS; Robert Sherrod, Time-Life and Carl Mydans, Life.

Overseas Press Club and Andrew Mollison,

the

president of the National Press Club.

Korean War

- Al Kaff, UP(now Cornell University); Nate Polowetsþ, AP,and Bob Al Ka./[, þt'csidenl rf lhe Rreign Conesþondøts

Schakne, ,INS (now CBS).

Those Little Wars

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Robert Rogers,

NBC. Women Correspondents - Irene Corbally Kuhn, Hearst News Seruice, who in 1925

Chtb

of Jaþan, 1967-68, and þresident of lhe Hong Kong Foreign Concsþondents Club 1974-75, was a IIPI nnesþondcnl and news esceculiue in Asia from 1952 to 1983 He non is business and inlentational edilor for lhe news setaice at Cornell Uniuersitl, Ithaca, New York.

NOVEMBER 1937 THE CONNPSPONIBIVT 7

By Barry \ /ain

SCHRODERS INI\ÆSTMENITS IN ASIA ARE

Things aren't nearly as bad as they appear While the situation is getting nasty in one country, SIAWEEK's circulation strangled

in and

Singapore... The Asian Wall

Street Jourrutl banned

in Malaysia

its reporters expelled from the

country... Another Far Eastern Economic Reuiew coffespondent denied extension of

his work permit in Indonesia.

These are apparentiy grim times for the regional press.

In fact, things aren't nearly as bad as they appear. To borrow a phrase favoured by our critics, what we need to do is look beyond the headlines to bring some perspective to the subject.

While it is true that foreign publications

recently have taken a hammering in Southeast Asia, that is offset to a large extent by positive developments elsewhere.

Furthermore, it's necessary to distinguish between calculated attempts to restrict the

free flow of information and mere i11considered or angÌl responses from thinskinned politicians.

I'm not arguing that we can be com-

placent. Indeed, we have much to be ðoncerned about. Censorship in its myriad forms is likely to be one of the costs of doing business in Asia for the foreseeable future - i[ your business is news.

But that's always been the case, a fact often overlooked as we work ourselves into a sweat over the latest government action against the press. What many fail to notice,

where situation the is that getting nasty, are things is improving in another country.

*hile they focus on one country

A

SIGN OF PROGRESS: TaKe China. FOr

years most of the coverage emanated from Hong Kong. The country was closed,

beyond the reach of most corespondents.

Those who did get to China were taken on staged tours of model (as in artificial) communes, model factories, model sewers.

In

early October, Beijing-based correspondents were upset because they were ordered out of Tibet after being there for about a week reporting anti-government demonstrations. They lodged a written protest with the central authorities. Good for them. Every attempt to deny access to reporters should be opposed, if only for the record.

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1987

is improving

But the travail of those reporters underscores China's opening to the Western press. That they managed to learn of the troubles in Tibet and get there and get

their stories out before being evicted represents a large measure of progress.

And China has gone beyond allowing foreign cor-respondents to live in the country. It also perrnits blatantly capitalist organs such as The Asian Wall Street Joumnl

to

circulate.

LESS CENSORSHIP: Taiwan also is taking

a much more pragmatic attitude to the foreign press. It censors fewer articles in

ONTHETJPAIDL]P

in another country.

If it turrrs out that I'm

gullibl intwo called

merely naive or lace

llbe that

it is misguided.

SENSITIVE SPOTS: Obviously, most of the regional press's real problems currently are in Southeast Asia, though the landscape there is not uniformly bleak.

Indonesia continues to get upset over individual articles, and engages in the irksome habit of often refusing to renew the work permits of correspondents after one or two years. This leaves news organisations

publications entering the country and only rarely bans an issue outright these days.

with the inconvenience and expense of constantly reshuffling staff. But those

No doubt Taiwan is mindful of its

organisations, unless they are Australian, are permitted to send replacement correspondents. (Australian-employed reporters are banned from living in Indonesia in the current phase of a long-mnning dispute between the two countries.)

in-

creasing diplomatic and political isolation as it softens its attitude to the international press. That's OK. We can ask little more of regional governments than that they

determine their press policies on enlightened self-interest. It's too bad that

Since the end of the Second World War the nations of Asia have forged an economic miracle that is without parallel anywhere else in the world.

Malaysia has shown a

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GREATER FLEXIBILITY: South Korea, too, has shown more flexibility in the face of what it regards as hostile reporting by outsiders. Difficulties remain. But certainly the country has come a long way since the dark days of martial law in 1979, when censors held foreign pubiications for long periods while they methodically chopped out all reference to Korea.

publiiations, though it appears to be having

investors and private individuals

to

second thoughts about enforcing them.

After seeing its decision to lnn The As'i¡tn Wall Street Journal and expel its reporters overtumed by the Malaysian courts, the government seems to be treading more cautiously.

Singapore

is showing no such restraint.

as prime targets for its

suppression

campaign. Its chosen instmment is an amendment to legislation adopted by

hostile iegislation from its books earlier

Parliament last year that allows the government to restrict the circulation of publications deemed to be interfering in

this year, though of course it introduced in its place the Public Order (Amendment) Bill, which makes it an offence to publish

domestic politics. As at mid-October, The Asi¡tn Wall Street Journal was allowed to sell only 400 copies daily in Singapore,

the past year, advances are being recorded.

The

government removed significant

false news.

For a long time I feared the worst, beiieving in the absence of any credible explanation that the government had acted appease Beijing. Now I see

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OINT

From the temples Tibetans fashion a revolt

never ceased to exist as an independent state. And the Chinese have so far not been able to convince me or anybody else who analyses the situation carefully, that there was any point in Tibet's history where the

Tibet specialist Dr. Michael C. van Walt van Praag spoke at the Club on October 23. Focussing on the recent upheavals in Tibet, he sought to shed light on the acrimonious relationship between China and its autonomous region. Excerpts from his address are reproduced here.

-armies invaded

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Y Y

f,?Ti, ?:#ïJ:fl.'å

isoiateci incicienr. it citci not come about because of some accident. It

is the culmination of the feelings

which existed in Tibet because of the very nature of the Chinese presence there.

The immediate cause of the unrest was the execution of two Tibetans in Lhasa on Septenrber 24-25 and the imprisonment of a number of others at a mass meeting called by the Chinese. This execution and imprisonment were, probably, a demonstration of force - the reaction of the Chinese authorities in Tibet to the Dalai Larna's recent speech in Washington.

The attention and the support the Dalai Lama got from Congress, (a number of leading members of Congress on all the committees involved with foreign affairs sent letters to the Chinese prime minister urging him to respond positively to the Dalai Lama's five-point proposal to restore peace in Tibet) made things very difficult for the Chinese.

So the easiest.way to react was to say the Dalai Lama was simply asking for independence and therefore we don't deal with it and we're going to show how we do deal r¡,ith situations like this. Such a Chinese

reaction led many Tibetans in Tibet to believe that the bad days of the Cultural Revolution were on their way back to Tibet and this was the time to do something because the Tibetans had less to lose than they initially thought they had.

CHINA'S IMAGE: The basic character of the Chinese presence in Tibet is of colonialist power. It is a form of imperiaÌism that has

occured'at a tíme when the restof the world was in the process of decolonisation.

I say this for two factual elements.

One is a study of the status of Tibet before 1950 which leads to the conciusion that the invasion of Tibet in 1950 was the invasion of an independent state. When I started the

research

on this five years before I

published my book on the status of Tibet,

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1987

did not think that the conclusion would be as simple as it ended up being. In the West we are taught to believe that if one side says one thing and the other says something else, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. My experience in this particular case has been that the Tibetans, not knowing a tremen-

dous amount about international 1aw or even ìnternational relations in the very modern sense of the word, felt they didn't really know how to interpret the relationships that had existed in the past between the Tibetans, in pafticular the Dalai Lama, and outside powers.

THREE EPISODES: Analysing what the relationship actually was, is interesting because aìl it brings to light is that Chiqa's claim to Tibet are entirely based on thu'ee episodes in Tibet's history. ÞTibet, by any account, including that of the Chinese, became a large and powerful state around the 7th Century. There is no disagreement about that. The first claim that the Chinese made to Tibet becoming a paft of China is when the Tibetan Emperor mar-ried a Chinese princess of the royal imperial family. Later another Tibetan Emperor also married six other wives from each of the countries surrounding Tibet. ÞThe next claim is based on the Mongolian theory when Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan extended their influence over most of Asia, conquering Mongols a¡rd China. Tibetans had strong links - political, ethnic and cultural - with the Mongols. The Tibetans in fact exported their religion to Mongolia and since then there has been an extremely strong relationship between the two peoples. This relationship had a political element, which was that Tibet was brought into the fold of those countries that fel1 under the influence of the Mongolians.

But if one were to consider this in terms of other countries, Britain would today be part of France, because both were conquered

by

the Roman Empire.

)The third element relates to the period of the Manchu Dynasty when the Dalai Lama

reiationship. The Manchu Emperor had a representative in Lhasa, a resident, much the same way the British had residents and the Dutch had residents in a number of places, some of which were colonies, some of which were places that they simpÌy exerted influence over. The British had a resident in Nepal because though Nepal remained independent, it was within Britain's sphere of influence.

If one were to compare Tibet's rela-

tionship with lhe Manchu Empire

to

a

modern-day þpe of relationship, one wou-ld look at two elements. One, the forrnal re-

lationship between states; the other, the actual relationship between states. From a legal perspective, the formal is more important than the actual.

The'Tibetan situation at that time was

that the formal relationship

remained purely on a patron-priest basis while the relationship in practice was something akin to the modern-day satellite. There were about 200 Manchu soldiers in Lhasa at the lowest estimate and at different times,

just

as criminal law is devised by people to

protect themselves against criminals.

Therefore, the presumption is always in favour of the continuation of the existence of a state. And for anybody to prove that a state ceased to exist would require a very heavy burden of proof. That's why a country that's under military occupation, just.as Holla¡d was during the Second World War,

out the

simply directives,

Tibet. The situation that was created from 1950 r"uttil now is precisely that of an occupied country, a state

And then, another thing happened. The

CHINA'S COLONY: In 1951, tJre Tiberans signed an agreement with China under duress by any definition of the word. There was no authorisation to sign anything from the Tibetan side; the seals were forged, half the Tibetan army had been wiped out, and 30,000 Chinese soldiers had moved into Tibetwith 80,000 troops waiting as backup.

In that situation, signing an agreement is under duress by any definition. And in

Chinese redesigned Tibet and apportioned

certain parts of Tibet to the neighbouring provinces. And the 1951 agreement, they said, was actually only applicable to that other part of Tibet that was not included in Chinese provinces and is called the Tibet Autonomous Region. This region is about halfthe surface area of f ibet and about onethird the population of Tibet. Tibet is a quarter the surface area of the People's Republic of China; it's half the size of continental United States.

Tibetans didn't want China's so-called "democratic reforms" to take root and communes and so on to be set up in Tibet.

So they resisted the reforms that began in

international law, an agreement signed under duress is invalid and can never be

the east, which had been incorporated in China's provinces. This resistance grew as

validated by any act by anyone.

So, in international law, Tibet, today, is a

the reform slowly swept to the west into the Autonomous Region. The result of that was the oppression of the resistance, taking away the leaders of the resistance. A lot of monasteries were destroyed, because in Tibet monasteries were not just religious institutions but they were also the centre of the community. The culmination of all that was the revolt in 1959 which the Chinese put down wilh a tremendous show of force.

The Dalai Lama fled, and the second phase of Chinese policy began with the revocation of the 1951 agreement and Tibet fell under the complete control of the Chinese. Between 1959 and 1976, 99Vo ot Tibet's historic and religious buildings were destroyed; 1.2 million Tibetans died as a result of the Chinese occupation.

In 1976 when changes occur:red in China, and certainly in Tibet, new policies were enunciated. China admitted that it had made mistakes in Tibet and started a new policy rebuilding some of the monasteries with the object of hopefirlly appeasing the Tibetans.

country under illegal occupation. In

practice, Tibet is very much a colony of China.

The way China has tried to gain control over Tibet over the past few years is aimed at integrating Tibet fully into China.

The first policy was the so-called United Front Policy of co-opting the ruling classes of Tibet, working with them and through them to try to get a grip over the country.

Part of that was the 17-point agreement signed in 1951 by both sides which gave Tibet full autonomy. Tibet was allowed to keep its own economic system, its own

until and

devised by states to protect themselves,

themselves giving

by

setting up a military district in Tibet and so on. This was what happened for a while.

many as 3,000. And so there was definitely a military presence, political influence, and at times even influence over ïbet's foreign affairs and internal affairs. But again, we do not consider Czechoslovakia to be part of the Soviet Union, thoug'h we all know that the Soviet lJnion exerts a large degree of is

Government

and Tibet became an integral part of China not even in 1950 when the Chinese

political system,

The last point is, intemational law

of the Tibetan

running the economy, running the military,

when they were having troubles in Tibet, the Manchus sent armies, sometimes as

influence over that country.

parallel structure started eroding the power

Tibetan state was actually extinguished,

under illegal occupation, according to both international law and the United Nations Charter.

and the Manchu Emperor established what's often called the patron-priest relationship - a give-and-take lype of

appointed from Peking, and led by Chinese

rather than Tibetans. And slowly, this

its own government.

There would be no reforms introduced, if the Tibetan people in the

Tibetan government agreed to it and any such reforms would be in accordance with the conditions present at the time in Tibet.

Even the Tibetan army was not going to be integrated into the Chinese army except at such time in the future that it wor-rJd be by mutual agreement. Dalai Lama's power and

position would remain and that

of

the

said that, it doesn't matter if the cat is black

or white just as long as it catches mice. But

Panchan Lama would remain.

In practice what happened

That was the time that Deng Xiaoping

was, the

moment the Chinese settled inside Tibet, they set up a parallel structure, parallel to the Tibetan government. It was a committee and it later became the "Preparatory Committee for the Autonomous Region of

Tibet". This was supposed to be a committee that \Mas representative of the Tibetan people; but all of them were

Tibetans were

still

dissatsified. They

started showing it more than they were able

to at other periods of suppression. Then tourists started coming in and some foreign correspondents also, and it led the world to see a little bit of what was happening to Tibet a¡d gave Tibetans the courage to do the sort of things they have just done now because the world wa- going to

watch what they were going to do.

THE HONG KONG FACTOR: Then the, negotiation process started with the Tibetans and the Dalai L4ma, to try to woo him back and create a situation of stability in Tibet, particularly because of the Hong Kong negotiations. While the negotiations

were going on about Hong Kong, Chinese were also in discussion with

the the

Tibetans. The agenda was open, anything could be discussed. But in practice, they just came out after three years of negotiations and at the conclusion of the Hong

Kong

negotiations,

with the same

proposals made three years earlier and the Tibetans felt betrayed.

During the negotiations, the

Chinese

have been bringing what has been termed by people, the final solution of Tibet. That is, simply swamping Tibet with Chinese immigrants. The Tibetans feel that this is the greatest threat to their continued existence. Because once they become a small and insignificant minority in Tibet, there really will not be a¡ issue any more.

This growing Chinese emigration to Tibet is making Tibetans feel threatened.

And a lot of Tibetans have decided that they're going to use desperate measures, which is what you've seen in the past few

weeks. And even among the young Tibetans in exiie, who are generally much more mild in their views than Tibetans inside Tibet who want nothing less than independence, many feel that the only way to get Tibet back is to really do something.

And a lot of them are even talking about violence though the Dalai Lama is trying to persuade them not to use violence.

The real issues that concern the Tibetan people are: the relationship between Tibet

and China, reiigious freedom and human rights, the withdrawal of the recent Chinese settlers and the governance of Tibet by Tibetans. Unless the Chinese Government faces these issues and discusses them with representatives of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan resistance and suppoft for the resistance are going to increase as the years go by. And I believe that if the Chinese turn

;Tibet into a colony in a factual sense or Tibetbecomes legally an occupied country, then any new minority policy which the Chinese may think up is really not going to resolve the problem' China is going to stay with this problem as it has for the past 37 years.

Dr. Michael C. uan Wall

uan

Prmg, author of 'status of

Tibet: History, Rights and Prosþecls in International ktw' and olher booþs on Tibet, þraclises law in Washington DC and in Londùn.

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It's easier than you may think. BERTON \MOODWARD and SEAN TOPLIS outline "desktop publishing" on pages designed and printed using it. saclubwhosecoregroupismade speed, and control. Its cheaper and up of writers, the FCC might faster because it can all be done in;ì#i::#lrlseem a logical place to find house, and you can change the design, people using the buzzword technology of the mid-1980s, "desktop publishing."

or a comma, any time you want, at the

Well, a great many FCC members could benefit from it-butlast on the list may be correspondents. For DTP, as aficionados call it, is as much an office revolution as a publishing one. Associate members in fi.nance, advertising, p.r. or widget-making could all find it useful.

So, too, could editors putting out sma-

Consider the traditional process for getting something from your brain to

ller

magazines and newsletters. But those who simply urite for a living, especially for overseas outlets, need not fear that somebody is about to make them learn a whole lot more computer stuff, just when theyle finally worked out which end ofthe keyboard is best for

resting the scotch bottle.

In a word, the people who could use desktop publishing are those who do layout. What the buzzword means, as most people probably know by now, is the ability to produce slick-looking publications, documents, brochures or artwork with the press ofa fewbuttons att-

to a surprisingìy friendly puter screen. For long, the leadached

com-

click of a button. the printedpage. Firstyou draftthe text,

which via you or your secretary may find its way on to a computer disk, or may still be in archaic typewritten pages. An artist, in-hoüse or out, sketches a layout. He may also draw some charts to your specifications, including a lot of titles and numbers.

hyphenation, to the conect column width, and finally output on a photot5rpesetter in column-wide strips.

These strips, or galleys, are then manually cut up and pasted down, in what you hope is the right order, to make up the frnished page. Headlines

There may be photographs or line draw-

ings as well. All this material is then sent to a typesetting firm; sometimes they're in Aberdeen. Here, according to your and the artist's detailed instructions, the type is set, either direct from a computer disk, or by keying it in a second time with all the attendant risk of error. Those niggly numbers and titles for the charts will almost surely be rekeyed. Ifyou had no artist, the typesetting company will select typeface and headline styles, or design the whole thing. The text will be justified, with

the appropriate places, ofben one at a time depending on how tricky the deson to

ign is. The finished pasted-up pages, along with the photographs, which are handled separately, are known as 'camera-ready" artwork. They could

now be used to produce page-size films, from which plates forthe printingpress are made. But wait: you haven't checked

it. Sobackfrom Aberdeen

come the pho-

tocopies ofthe artwork, whichyou getto

mark up in your illegible scrawl. Perhaps you don't like something fundamental,like the "leading" (line spacing) or the typeface. So back goes the messenger to Aberdeen, again the type is set, and again you wait, expensively.

Now for the desktop method. All the stages are the same, but they're electronic, and in front of you. You still write the text, hopefully by keying it yourselfin your wordprocessing program, or by getting your secretary to do it. In integrated systems, where the word processor and the page-layout program understand each other, you can doall the formatting now, including typeface, leading, hy-

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How These Pages Were Made These are direct screen images, inserted back into the page. Using a Macintosh SE, Séan frist opened Microsoft Word to choose the Century Sc'hoolbook typeface, font sizes and indents. Switching to Aldus Pagemaker 2.0,he set the page size, number of columns, margin widths and gutters, using options on the pull-down menus. Clicking around each page with his mouse, he drew in spaces for the head, subhead and photos, and added the rules at top and sides. This took about ten min-

utes per page. Then he poured in the copy. Cutting words and lines to make it fit required only mouse clicks; corrections were typed on screen straight into the layout (which can be shown at various sizes, zooming in and out). The pages were printed on a LaserWriter and proofed again there's no substitute for seeing-a real page. (The LaserWriter was deliberateìy selected t¿ show the advantages and limitations of laser printers.) The ad was stripped in later, the oìd-fashioned way.

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Then you pop over to page layout.

Here a'mouse' becomes essential. This is the gadget that moves the screen cursor as you push the

prepared separately and easily

merged. Then it is all "output" as computer verb-makers say on either a laser printer, for acceptable quality, or a profes-

mouse along the desktop, then executes a command when you click one of the buttons on top.

The program they all work on

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INTRODUCTION TO DESKTOP PUBLISHING:

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ing DTP system has been Apple's Macintosh line, but the IBM family is catching up fast. The AT (or clone) you use for spreadsheets can easily handle DTP as weÌI. Using a page makeup program, you see everything on the screen the way it will come out of the printer, complete with differ-

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TECHNOLOGY (cont'd) 'What you see is what you WYSIWYG, pronounced by the salesmen as "wizzywig," The key function ofthe page-layout program is to draw the page. It's pretty quick a series of mouse-strokes and clicks.-Master pages can be set up so thatyou don'thave to startfrom scratch every time. Then you *pour" the copy

just

changed.

get

through.

It

wraps around the holes

you've left for photos, headìines, drawings and captions and, you hope, fits.

Advertising copy a line too long?

Change the leading by half a point or close the letter spacingby 5/100 ofan em space. Tlpeface a

little

severe? Change

it to something more flamboyant.

The

strength of desktop publishing is not

only that changes can be made

so

quickly, but that you control the entire process.

Now it's time to bring in that chart. You've set it up on

ter than the 100 to 150 ofa good quality dot matrix printer but not in the same league as a typesetter at 600 tþ 2,400 dots per inch.

For small in-house newsletters and

the like, laser printers are often all that's required. The laser printer output becomes the camera-ready artwork and awayyou go. More commonly, however,

the laser printer version is used as the proofcopy. Then the diskholding all the page information is taken to a typesetting house that has Macintoshes and IBMs connected to its costly typesetter (anywhere from US$40,000 to over US$100,000), and the page is run off there. The result is a camera-ready bromide, or the plate-making film itself.

So, how much will it cost? The same as a desktop computer, plus the laser printer and programs. This means be-

any of a number of programs that do charts. If you're adventurous, you can add in all

Laser printers, including the LaserWriter,

Among programs, which run around US$500-$700 bought legit and about HK$50-$300 bought from a pirate shop, common ones are Aldus PageMaker 2.0, Quark XPress and Letraset Ready-SetGo 3.0 for the Macintosh, and Aldus Pagemaker 1.0, Xerox Ventura Publisher, and Software Publishing's Hatvard Publisher for the IBM and clones.

Discussing their various subtleties

flowing text from one page to another is obviously important for a book or magazine publisher but will be of no importance at all to someone preparing a single-page advertisingflyer. Ifyou go the

a good idea what the program witl do before you buy. If you can get a copy, then just try it out (and read the manual).

At the moment, there is no desktop publishing program

that weïe

the other, and presto, the chart is in place, intact. No paste on.

a lot of fun

scanning in a photograph ofyour office colleague and then electronically changing it him bald, for instance.

- making Low-level scanners are quite cheap.

O.K., so you've got it looking as you want it. How do you print it? At the touch of a button, more or less, if you're

to a laser printer. These produce near-typeset-looking docuhooked up

ments, as this article shows, but they get a little ragged round the edges, particularly on ìarge type. They wilì print 300 dots per square inch - considerably bet-

run

can

hyphenation and justification just doesn't meet high quality specifications. Asiouteek looked, and opted instead for a considerably more sophisticated program designed specifically for professional typesetting. However, DTP pro-

The Macintosh Line: Mac Plus, LaserWriter & SE

simply not good enough for professional

16

that

publishing. So far, the control over such things as kerning (space between letters) and

niggly numbers and titles to

use. Still, you can have

seen

handle top-class magazine

coRRESpoNDENT NovEMBER

1987

for DTP, but those with significant

in

AT-compatibles (XTs ate too slow) will have no problem finding good products for their machines.

These usuallyrun under the Macintosh lookalike systeln, Microsoft Windows, with a mouse. Also, if your favourite word processor runs on an IBM, you'll have less hassles transferring text. The HK$10,000 above will get you a well-

made Hongkong/Taiwan AT clone; you'd have to run off the page on someone eìse's laser printer. A Macintosh

grams are getting better all the time

every month,

it

often seems, there's-a

new one doing new things. At the same time, high-end software companies that used to specialise in expensive professional-standard programs are creating DTP versions. And Japanese firms are said to be working on aìaser printer that

will output 3,000 dots perinch-not 300 the same price as the current -at about At this machines. rate, it may not be long before desktop publishing is alì the publishing there is.

Plus (soon to be phased out) costs about

the newer SE about HK$30,000. All of these include (and need) a hard disk for plenty of storage.

HK$23,000,

celebrity parades. Among the celebrities

who graced the half-a-century-old brick

and the goverrìor of Hong Kong, Sir David

have

investments

/a FTER an almost actionless sumA mer the Club livened up suddenly L l.in September and October with

easy to use and the more advanced fea-

tures somewhat more diflicult. Each program has been devised with a particular end-user in mind; continuously

of art, either drawn with the help of the mouse, or even scanned in. There are also some standard artwork bits the programs wilì let you throw in or help create. Now it's just a matter of a few clicks from one program to

tween aboutHK$10,000 for the absolute minimum and HK$100,000 for the bells and whistles. We would normally recommend the Macintosh, since it's set up

and...âVIP house in that Indian summerwere the heart-

legit route, make sure you

in other programs can also be brought in. However, for top-quality publications, an¡rthing requiring half-toning should still be done by a commercial facility. The resolution of a scanned photograph in the desktop systems is

Singers, mannequms

filì up an entire hard disk, but they all do the basics. In certain programs some features ate particularly could

sorts

Graphics in the form of Iine drawings, scanned photographs, logos, etc. oeated

go for HK$40,000-$50,000.

Berton Wood.ward. is a Senior Editor of Asiaweeh. Séan Toplis is a freelance graphic designer and. DTP specialist.

tlirobber Filipinas, Passion; rnannequins of Peltl.r's first lady of fashion, Liz Davenporl; Wilson.

Wilson's visit was not publicised. He came to lurci.r on September 17 on the invitation of the Board of Govenors.

"We l-rad a fiank talk," said one insider, "but evel-rtl-ring u.as off-the-record. " 'I'lie Board l.rad suggested that tl're gorernor address the Club on-the-record at a professional lurcheon but he felt that it u'ould be rnore suilable for him to neet a sn.rall group and have an infon'nal cl.rat for the tin-re behg. The Board took the opportunity to press him to address tire Club as a u'hole as soorl as he felt \Ã'illing to face its

Guess who came to lunch GOVERNOR Sir David Wilson (centre) was the guest of honour at a luncheon hosted by the Club's Board of Govemors on September 17. "We had a frank talk," said one parlicipant, "but eve4,thing was off-the-record. " Whatever the discussion, Club President Derek Davies held out a n'l.rite napkin in symbolic peace plea as soon as the first glass of wine was poured.

by Cathay Pacific with the help of Parry Pacific, will be served free of charge with a full cour.rtry breakfast (which is not free) on Thursday, November 19 between 7 a.m. and 10.30 am in the main dining room and veranda.

members.

But on September 17, the goverr-ror dined in the privac¡' of the veranda r¡,ith members of the Board and past presidents.

So hardll' any head tu¡red r¡'hen Number Or.re set foot in his neighboru-hood club u'here pin-strìped suits as well as T-shirt and blue jeans are equa1l1'acceptable attire. And it was too late when people fou¡d out u4ry Paul Bayfield r¡'as in jacket and tie.

The Wilson visit was hardly on par u'itl.r other events. The top floor restaurant and veranda throbbed as the packed audience tv,'isted and tun-red to the songs of the Passion girls (see page 20 ). The mannequins of Liz Davenporl and ii.re Westem Australiar.r culinary offerings aiso attracted large audiences (see page 19 ). So did BBC's John Tusa, the Tibet specialist Dr. Michael C van Walt van Paarg (page 10) and mastermind of the management of snooker players and the Matclroom team, Barry Hearn.

Mark your diary, it's Nouveau time again THIS year's Beaujolais Nouveau

season

Hong Kong, in its usual fashion, on November 19 and the Club will be among the first (if not the first) to welcome the new vintage from France.

The fruity liquid, brought to Hong Kong

rn'ash over

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Champions claim their trophies SEVERAL times world snooker champion Steve Davis presented the Club's 1987 champions with their trophies. David Gilhooly (above left) claimed two trophies, beating Paul Baran in Billiards and Tony Craig in 14-1 Straight Tournament. Paul Baran also lost to Andreas Panayi (above right) in Snooker but won against Lisa Cheung in Eight Ball (right).

The chef of La Tour Rose of Lyon Phillip Chauent

will

also be here to prepare special-

ties of the French cuisine during the week long tribute to Beaujolais Nouveau. The week u'ill conclude with a gala evening on Fr-iday, November 27.

CLUB NE\ryS

l{ot a common sight - in

The Davenport girls

Paterson St. or at the Club noticed the other lovely thing about the

T WAS about 9.45 the morning after and suddenly there they were like a mirage in the Nullabor Liz Daven-

sextet. Those girls are so wonderfully patriotic. The way those supple torsoes

port's girls. They sat perched on stools in a fast-food joint in Paterson Street, gazing with golly:gee wonder at rivetingCausewäy Bay. The human traffic gawked right back.

Six nubile Oz birds wearing Digger hats, identical denims and enough makeup to start a corroboree aren't a common sight in lhose parts at that time of day.

If it hadn't been for the brunette, they could have been clones. Maybe the five blondes were. Liz is very particular about her girls and not just when it comes to perfect tans and dimensions.

arched to the strains of Advance Australia Fair. The proud lift of those shapely thighs to the beat of Waltzing Matilda. It was enough to make your throat constrict.

None is more fervent than Liz Davenport,

winner of two Lyrebird Awards (the highest

in fashion Down Under) and champion of ali things indigenous including an Aboriginal woman's craft group whose accolade

patron is fellow patriot Janet Holmes

a

Couft.

"I don't like haughty,

poker-faced lady of fashion

types," said Perth's first when we met for breakfast by the Hilton pool the day before. "The first thing I look for (apart from the obvious, of course) is a big smile. All my models have loveiy personalities."

The types who concentrated on the swimwear and the tribute to Crocodile Dundee ("those shorts are practically indecent," said Liz, who can't tell a lie) may not have

polished our shoes and boomerangs in preparatior.r

for The Best of

Western

Australia (barbeque plus show

at the

Flilton).

The barbie was great. Close your eyes and thinh of Oz and you could almost smell the eucalyptus and bloated mossies. The show, alas, was not up to Liz's usual. The drongoes at Customs still hadn't cleared the lighting equipment.

"Cou1d you please lower that light, Kevin.

at this end," Liz over tl.re loudspeaker about five minutes into TBOWA. Kevin responded by dismantling the source of the It's

blinding tl're people

snapped

TEAR JERKING: In this age of cynicism, I.iz's shining faith in tlie Lucky Country (we1l the western part of it, any.vvay) and the immortal lines penned by Dorothea McKellar, Rolf Har-ris and Men at Work is just

glare and stomping off in a sulk. 'l'he rest of the show continued in semigloom, which was really a shame.

about the most affecting thing that has blown into Hong Kong for ages.

"The show wili bring tears to your eyes," promised Liz as we finished our scrambled

like about the Davenport look, but

I

"Liz says it u'ill bring tears to your eyes, " told the spouse some hours later as we

The Club's top floor restaurant and veranda transformed beyond recognition at lunchtime on October L3-L4 when Perth's first lady of fashion, Liz Davenport, paraded her six lovely ladies in a variety of latest fashion, from swimsuits to evening wear.

The Correspondent's lensman witnessed the action.

SPECTACULAR COLOURS: Say what you the colours are reaily spectacular.

Tl.re next day a friend called. He'd seen

the FCC luncheon shou. and was in two minds about it.

"Weren't you moved to tears?" I asked, adding how many had come close to it at the

Hilton barbie, thanks to Kev, "Only a bit u'hen the swin.rsuits came on, tl.ror.rgb I might have squeezed out a few more if Liz had gone for bigger variety than just white one-piece costumes. A couple of bikinis and I would have been weeping buckets.

"I also thougl.rt all those billowy painted jackets rvere a bit of a gimmick not real

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an emu, he said.

NOT TYPICAL: Fínally we got to the heart

a

of the matter. What had really got up his Pommie nose, confessed my friend, was all that gushing sentirnentality about the Land of Oz. Surely that wasn't typical of Ostralians?

I thought of my birthplace. The slender,

Saturday evening CrtcrinB xnd llrll-1 Drnccr

fashion in my ì:ook."

We nattered some more about the collection. Interesting use of emu skin, I said.

Very interesting, unless you happened to be

r\xilrblr ti)r

Dinners:rnd Pxrr¡cs

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I

ghostiy gums and sun-drenched beaches.

The azure skies and almost primeval spirit of the bush. The majestic mountain ranges

and sweeping plains. Then Liz's girls.

"No," I

I

thought of

said firmly. "Not at all typical."

Zrldo Cau'lhorna Monting Posl

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NOVEMBER 1987 THE CORRESPONDNNT

19

CLI]B

NE\A/S When Passion

finally came on Guests had to wait nursing

their after-dinner drinks until the Passion girls finally turned up more than half-anhour late for their performance on the night of September 2lc. When they finally arrived and began to sing songs of the 'Forties, shades of Glenn Miller, the crowd tapped table tops and swayed to their tunes.

THE relevant committees and subcommittees of the FCC reSponsible for professional activities are scratching their navels and gazing skywards in search of inspiration. It cannot surely be true that no one of any conceivable interest, professionally speaking, has come through Hongkong since the present Board was elected? Or can it? There have been odd visitors, from Dr Kissinger and Pierre Trudeau to "Dirty Digger" Murdoch, Ronald Reagan's daughter and Greek royaìty. But all have slipped through secretly, or have rebuffed the FCC's blandishments.

Gordon Wu, the man who wants to fill in the harbour, promised to appear, but slipped quietly off to Ewope. Admirai James Lyons, C-in-C of the US Pacific fleets, was slated to speak on Sepetmber 18, but copped out at the Ìast minute (it was rumoured that he 1eft for the Gutf without the benefit of minesweepers).

Begging letters addressed to agencies, information services, international impressarios, cultural tsars and even local consulates have failed to produce a single

We have welcomed the BBC's John Tusa justifying the erection of an expensive piece of equipment which will boost the transmission of the BBC's External Services in Chinese - until the lease expires in 1997. And Dr Michael C van'Walt van Praag (sic), an expert on Tibet. Any more ideas?

her spectacles. One Club member was heard speculating recently about the possibilities of mounting an archaelogical dig through the strata of accumulated deposits on her glasses, which could well reveal the sites of all the wars she has covered since Hitler's panzers invaded

FORMERPresident Donald (the working man's David Niven) Wise and consort (Big White Bird) Daphne are back in town. Commuting

Poland. . .

POPULAR absent member Mike Jones, now

residing in Bangkok, on a brief visit reports that the equally popular absent

between

Hong Kong and the South of F-rance appears to agree with them both; while Daphne fiddles with her piano and harps, Donald takes retirement yery seriously, wincing like any Provençal layabout when anyone mentions work. . .

CLARE Hollingworth, still writing for the London Sunday Telzgraþh is also back

speaker.

from the South of France and a conference of strategists held in Spain.

She still does not appear to have cleaned

Correspondent,

Rodney Tasker, is showing signs of age.

Tasker's legs appear to be going, reports Jones. "He falls downs stairs more often than he used to," he told fellow Tasker friends.

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NBC

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joint

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East covering Beirut, Le-

Henkel.

regional manager of adver-

Sylvia A. Potvin is the

lising and circulation. He was a frequent visitor to

and the chemical

banon, Oman, Jordan, etc.,

to

before moving

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sioner in Hong Kong.

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editor/photographer at Rz-

moving to his present posi tion, senior managing dir-

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utets, started as

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gerodt, Asia-Pacific sales director of The Aqualon

Dow Jones Neus Seruice, worked in Nevl' York be-

Garrige

July this year, is staff manager at Reuters. Previously

Leighton A. Will-

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Kong about three months ago after spending two years in the Philippines as the news bureau chief.of Pacific Stars & Shiþes

worked in Jei-usalem for a year as a freelance writer

who

Timothy Lee Hanson, er's Digest, arrived in Hong

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