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The Clubrs trailblazers were out again on the Macl,ehoseTrail this year to test their stamina and their tempers. All of them passed the test of stamina, and leading the wayfor the FCC was none other than veteran trulblazer Robert Grinter. The Clubrs commendable showing on the Macl,ehose Trail came barely a fortnight after the big event of the year - the 40th Anniversary celebration, which attracted almost 500 members and guests, among them former presidents and absent club members.

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Journalist Member Governors Bob Davis, Karl Wilson.

Whatnext? À sold FCC card for Club each nrunñs?A credit line for

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J. RogerThomas

On the night of June 3/4, 1989, units of the Peoplers Liberation Army

Wendy Hughes, Bryan Lloyd, Saul I-ockhart, Dorothy Ryan,

swung into action inTiananmen

Club Managen Heinz Grabner, Club Steward: Julia Suen.

rTD qRNDSPITIETUT Editor: PViswaNathan Fditorial Supervision: Publications SubCommittee: Paul Bayfield (Chairman), David Thurston, Saul Lockhart, Wendy Hughes

Creffield's new passion ON travelling to Europe, I met an oldestablished FCC personality, David Creffield.

For the many FCC mem-

bers who remember David, I am sure theywould be amused byhis new activity.

When I spent some time

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El Salvador: Three newsmen killed in 48 hours.

Peru: Three newsmen killed, including Hugo Bustios who died in a grenade attack in Perurs Valley of Death. Fred S. Armentrout reports on the implications of these deaths and the lessons they offer to journalists all over the world. 6

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staff of 1,210 journalists worldwide,

In search of truth in the killing T,one

among them 100 photographers and the employees of Visnews and Finsbury. The

interim report even paused within its litany of successful new financial services to note, "But there was tragedy when one photographer was shot dead and a second wounded in El Salvador." The dead don't have names in interim financial reports.

In El Salvador last March, three newsmen were killed - all within a span of 48 hours.

Earlier, in Peru, three other newsmen had been killed. These incidents led the Brusselsbased International Federation of Journalists to send a Commission of Inquiry to the two I¿tin American countries. The Commission's findings are contained in IFJ's recentþ released special report,Journalism ìn the Valley of Death.

||'IHERE I worrv over th I an¿intiml¿atio

learned in Peru and El Salvador is to see what can be done to protect local freelancers for international services and

other journalists working for smaller

Beijing's Tiananmen square. None died there, but al1 have been chastened with the fear of death.

It

latin America in the first quarter of

like the soldiers with whom they often kavel in the world's news'hot spots', know the risks. Likewise, like soldiers, none believe them. Once staring down the muzzle of a hostile weapon, however, it is too late to reconsider one's freely chosen pro fession or position in a killing zone.

So what is there in the Special Report of the lnternational Federation of Journalists,

their valued photographs

'blown away', as they say in the war

movies. The IFJ case study on Peru and his story are instructive: A PIACE WITHOUT JOURNALISIS: In 1984 eight persons in the town of Huanta, Peru, derived parts of their income from journalistic work, according to the case study,

the responsibility for murdered journalists. If you're still breathing and they're not, you're the one with something to worry about. Their trials are over.

The first step towards shared responsibility is to learn that the dead have names:

Navas Alvarez was shot off a motorbike

by Salvadorean Air Force guards near a roadblock.

soundman

Mauricio Pineda Deleon was shot

"Working Peruvian journalist Hugo Bustios at work. He was killed on November 24, 1988 while investigating the killing of a peasant woman outside Huanta in the Ayacucho region of Peru.

The second reason has to do with

those journalists still under fire

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dead by other guards while riding on the back of a pick-up truck.

ed or brutally intimidated, though still breathing, more or less. There are bro-

I ogrouw never made it to his car. He and

ken bodies and minds of men and women who have paid, if not died, for sins of faith and optimism in the journalists' canons

Dutch television journalist Cornel

seven other international journalists were

caught in a raid by government troops into a village where they had just filmed and interviewed guerillas. He was killed

that the truth shall set us free; that

in the crossfire.

We all owe them something, which is a nice sentiment. Their employers owe them more tangible somethings - like compen-

All ofthe above occurred over two days in El Salvador, March 18 and 19 of this year.

brusquely

resold by their own bosses without credit, cash or consultation as compensation for their daring efforts.

Many of them are not unlike Peruvian journalist Hugo Bustios, with one excep tion - late last November he was literally

íI\ed, lournalism in the Valley of Death: A case study ofkillings ofjournalists in Peru and El Salaador, lor the living in Asia and elsewhere? Three things.

One has to do with causing the guilty parties and world at large to take note and - as they say in the jargon of professional counselling services -'take possession' of

Reuters photographer Roberto

has awakened in them new or

renewed concerns over their lack of protection by employers in the Chinese-language press. They were given cause to think about what would happen to their families if they should die in a crossfire.

And they came back to find their stories blatantly stolen by other publications and

1989, that is to discover what lessons can be learned to protect the living. Journalists,

6 THE

to take note of IFJ's lessons

recording another 'valley of death' in

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reason

local media. This is a pressing concern for Hong Kong journalists, just back from

by Fred S. Armentrout

away

PITYTHE P00R FREEIIINCERS: The third

unarmed journalists must always serve on the 'civilian side' in a firefight.

CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER 1989

sation for their disabilities if wounded; or support for the aggrieved families of the dead; or the costs required to noisily rattle the cages of the animals trying to intimidate them and their families in faraway places that make titillating headlines but lousy long-term financial prospects.

For instance, presumably Reuters has done or will do well by their dead photographer's family. Their corporate interim results, released on July 25, this year, show after-tax profits to be up over 34 per cent, to US$132.7 million. They report a

as

correspondents for

national and local media, they covered the activities of the Sendero Luminoso (The Shining Path guerillas) and, later on, the Comando Rodrigo Franco, the paramilitary group and the armed forces' struggle to control the area.

"Toda¡ fìve years later, there are no journalists left in Huanta in the region of Ayacucho. Ayacucho is the Inca-language word for Valley of Death'. That name now rings true for a specific group of people,

thejournalists...

"On November 24, 1988 journalist Hugo Bustios was killed and colleague Eduardo Rojas Arce severely wounded in gunfire outside Huanta. Under pressure from the prestigious Caretas magazine which employed Bustios as a correspondent, there is an official investigation in

IN TTIE VAUTY OF DEAITT'

THE REPORTfollowing a Commission of Inquiry into the killings of three journalists in El Salvador and Peru was presented at the IFJ Executive Committee meeting in l-ondon by the end of May. The Executive Committee endorsed a total of

10 recommendations from the Commission, among them a call for politi-

cal and economic pressure on Latin

American countries where journalists are victims of acts of violence.

The Commission went to El Salvador and Peru in April, only three weeks after

three journalists were killed during the

Salvadorean presidential election on March 19th. Thanks to intense pressure on the local government from the Dutch

Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

the Commission met with high-level officials in San Salvador. During the visit, a new set of rules to regulate the relations between the army and journalists was presented. One of the journalists killed

during the presidential elections was Dutch cameraman Cornel Lagrouw. If implemented, the rules will improve the working conditions for both local journal-

ists and foreign correspondents.

The Commission had problems with obtaining the same service in Peru and was, among other things, not allowed to visit Huanta where journalist Hugo Bustios was killed in November last year.

The Commission calls for an interna-

tional fund to provide legal aid

and

humanitarian aid for the journalists who are victims of violence and their families, for an international team of investigators to be on a permanent standby to monitor attacks on journalists and to follow up official investigation, and an international campaign to improve journalists' working

conditions and their professional and trade union training.

The IFJ has also announced an International Programme for Action to improve the level of safety for journalists.

The campaign, supported by funds from

the Dutch

government and others, involves an education programme among journalists in areas of risk, the setting up of an international communications network among human-rights agencies and the publication of a handbook for journalists.

the case. It is, however, moving slowly and few believe that the killers will be

towards the Civil Guards, he saw a grenade hit his colleague, Bustios,

brought to trial.

destroying his body. According to eyewitnesses, the attackers were eight persons between 20 and,25 years old, covering their faces with hoods.

"In four years, half of the journalists

working in Huanta became victims of vio lence from either guerillas or the army.

The other half left or stopped writing in

Who are these fodder for the world's

fear of retaliation.

'civilian side' like Bustios? IFJ sent

LMNG IN

Commission of Inquiry to find out: "In the internationally accepted sense

FEAR AND

MISERÍ Eduardo

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Rojas lives in shelter in Lima, out of work

of the word, very few Peruvian journal-

and with severe medical problems after the killing of his friend and colleague, Hugo Bustios, and the wounds he himself

ists are 'professional'journalists.

received. Families of journalists killed,

wounded and threatened are living in economic misery. There is no compensa-

tion from the authorities, no life insur-

It

is

very difficult to have an exact idea how many Peruvians call themselves journalists but the different organisations of the press claim to have altogether as many as 10,000 members. Only a fraction of this group, probably far less than 1,000 are

ance and almost no help from the radio, newspaper or magazine companies who

full-time journalists.

employed them to work

teacher/journalist. But we also fìnd combinations of journalism with travel agencies, public sector workers, doctors and lawyers. Hugo Bustios, the last victim of violence in Huanta, for example, had a small private business which provided

in one of the

most dangerous zones in the world."

Bustios and Rojas were on their way to a town called Erapata, to investigâte the murder of a peasant's wife and her son, presumably executed by Sendero Luminoso. Earlier they had both been at the place of execution, accompanied by the daughter of the dead woman. They

were then briefed by the commander of local army forces on events involving the killings and afterwards returned again to the scene of the double murders.

On the road back to Erapata they crossed a patrol of Civil Guard; and 300 metres further up the road they were shot at and hit several times.

Eduardo Rojas miraculously avoided fatal injury and, on running back

"The most common combination is

most of the family income.

"Ownership of a local radio station or being correspondent for national media

gives status to a local businessman.

Enrique Zileri, chief editor of Caretas, told the Commission that it is common to find signs outside shops in provincial Peru saying that the shop is not only selling shoes and other merchandise but the owner is also a correspondent

lor Caretas.

"In a country where the monthly minimum salary is not enough for a family to

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"This competitive climate creates an unprofessional journalistic base. Only a fraction of Peruvian journalists have any basic journalistic training. In this climate, pressure is easy to impose, whether from political sources, terrorists, the army or

integi"ator.

With

offices

in H ong Kong,Singapore,

management sel axces as zDell as region-

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The message is clear. Using inter-

Zealand and Austraha, we

nationalþ agreed Open Systems stan-

even the employer.

"On top of this physical violence

and killing ofjournalists, death threats

and bombing of radio stations and private homes, make the situation of the journalist in Peru, professional or not, completely chaotic.

"Even (with) the law - Act 24724 of 1988 - (which) demands that correspondents shall be treated as members of the stafl no media companies comply with all the demands. The Commission found the

exploitation of inexpensive journalistic

labour in Peru to be a violation of national

laws and international conventions. It makes it easier for terrorists and other groups to pressure the journalists." @ Fred S. Armentrout is Publications Managerfor the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and ed,itor-in-chief of 'Amcham" magazine. He has for many rears been a freelance iournalist ín Asia and is Honorary SecretarlÌ of the Hong Kong lournaLists'

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Future of Hong Kong: This could be the deal of the century' drain nor the massive oufflow of funds that accompanies emigration.

tain cases, to give that right of entry' The problem is that members of the Labour Party have said that if that right of entry is given, they may revoke it in the event they come to power. So, anybody who is given the right of entry would be wise to take it immediately because if Labour comes to power it is possible that they will change the deal and he might not be able to capitalise on it.l

Kong's fantastic track record as an international trading centre.

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for Hong Kong not to be as prosperous

perous and vibrant society, a vital business cenke. That is the emigration problem.

and Britain, getting the benefit in billions of dollars. But the political nuances have to be ironed oul

ODAY,I would like to address one sinsle issue which I think is the moit pressing and could unfortunately lead to our disintegration as a pros-

To state the problem Yet again, the feeling among many of us is that the emigration figures over the past few years have grown from about 15,000 annually and is now moving to 50,000 and upwards. Unless that tide is slowed, within the next seven years we could lose something over 600,000 people, probably from the middle management and professional sector, as well as a host of small,

essential businessmen who collectively are really the backbone of Hong Kong.

Iæt me put that a little bit in perspec-

tive. At Hutchison, which is one of the largest and most diversifìed companies in Hong Kong, we emPloY 480 managers.

And, when I hear these emigration figures - even though two-thirds of the

number are women, children, house-

wives or whatever - it makes me sweat a bit. Of course, with everyone who leaves

goes their money.

In the Past

eight

months alone, I think something like $18 billion has moved from Hong Kong to Vancouver. We cannot afford an exit of funds on that scale for verY long' The only way, the only real way, to persuade people to stay and stem this exodus, is to give them the security of knowing that they can go if they want to and when they want to. If they have the assurance of this, they will stay in this place of prosperity which they know and underÀtand. In 1997, if the sun is shining, thev will continue to stay. On the other hand, if they do not stay until 1997 we don't realþ have a chance. If they do stay and we get on with our lives, there is reaþ no reason

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and as vibrant in1997 as it is today.

This is a gigantic commercial deal with all three parties, China, Hong Kong

Right of abode is synonymous with British citizenship. So when we talk about right of abode, we're talking about passports as well.

I think the British have accepted that they need to do something on the right of abode front; and I'm very sure they're going to. The practicalities of getting it through Parliament are a problem. Parliaan open book.

So, undoubtedly there will have to be some dialogue and some agreement final-

mentwill never agree to

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HUGB PRICE TAG: China-Hong Kong

trade has grown, over the past 10 years, by 1,500 per cent to nearly $300 billion today. Multiply that by 50 years and thafs the price tag on the table for the Chinese in this deal.

Even the British, who normally don't

try very hard, are managing to export about $12 billion to Hong Kong on an

annual basis. Assuming some growth, they also have somewhere between $600 and $1,000 billion. That's their price tag in the deal.

Who knows what Hong Kong's stake means in dollars and cents over the next 50 years! But having grown over the past 20 years at the rate of about 8.5 per cent

compound, ifs got to be a lot of money So this is a big commercial deal apart from anything else. So, what can be done?

know that apart Írom anything else they have a moral responsibility here in Hong Kong to look after the

BRIT¡JN'S ROLE:We

interests of their subjects. They know that, too, and are, in my opinion, very much aware of it. Item one, is for them to provide the assurances of abode in the UK and that right of abode automaticalþ encompasses fuIl British citizenship. lJust to get round one of the misunderstandings, right of abode since 1982 cannot be given without fulI British citizenship; but right of entry and residence can be given without a British passport. The Home Secretary has the flexibility in cer-

ly on numbers. It is my view that all of

Hong Kong should be given passports' But I'm also a realist, and I think we can see the British side in this deal. Anyway, I hope they will get on with making noises that are really in some ways promising, but I don't think anything is going to hap pen in real terms before the end of the year. And even if they start putting a number out at the end of the yeal it's got to go through Parliament and committees. So, it is unlikely there will be anything really firm before May-June next year.

In the event that the British do not come up with passports for everybody, it's important, I think, that we do not

react too negatively, provided they give a reasonable number in the first instance.

The question arises, to whom should the passports be given when they are given in the first instance?

I'm on record as saying that I think that passports should be given to the pea

ple who make this place tick' I do not think in saying that, I am being divisive or elitist. By people making this place

tick, I'm talking about professionals; civil servants; people in vital industries; peop1e in 1aw-and-order, such as police; entrepreneurs; businessmen; etc. If we can get those people to stay by giving them passports, we have a verY good chance that other nations will follow suit.

And if the Americans, Australians,

Canadians, Taiwanese, and the rest, adopt that kind of immigration policy - i.e. passports without having to relocate - we could be travelling in the right direction over the next few years.

In the interests of getting

acceptability by the British, and diluting the economic concerns of immigration, the British government should promote Hong Kong, its success, its commercial viability and its direct benefit to the UK

which they are not doing at the moment. Britain's special position with China should be emphasised in the UK. Hong Kong is a Platform to the long-term relationship that we've had with China for a long time. They should disPel the idea of mass immigration in the UK. And they should balance this against the realities of what haP pens if the people of Hong Kong do cash in at some future stage on those passports or on that right of immigration.

Hong Kong people are creators of wealth. The examPles are

In Vancouver, for example, the average net worth

numerous.

They could encourage more investment here. A convergence toward 1997 rather tha¡r a sudden

event happening on June

30,

1997.

We need a more accePtable trigger mechanism before martial

is imposed. That's again another item in the Basic I¿w and they must understand that.

And, they've got to listen more and be flexible on the formation

law

of the Legislative Council and the judiciarY itself.

All this they can do and theY are really giving away relatively little. procedures

HONG K0NG'S R0LE: And Hong Kong itself, what can we do? We need to continue to show the world

that this is what we've

alwaYs

claimed it was, a vital, vibrant commercial cenfe. Aplafform to China and a hub of Southeast Asia. W'e must not give up. We've seen worse times than this.

'We

need to build infrastruc-

ture to ensure we maintain our place as one ofAsia's great centres. We need to spend on education and language; we need to encourage international invest-

ment by showing confidence; we need to bring international agennot saying no to d.ernocracy... but I thi.nk it needs to be cies here; we need to retain our I an MURRAY: Inland The Canadian counterpart. thought through a little bit. position as a tourist centre and as Revenue Department there saYs gateway into China; we need to a central and slogans chanting And, educated. the to donors that the Chinese are net develop the well-established and maintain to helP nothing does banging drums coffers. They bring wealth and they crewe have, particularþ with south that links along. things jobs. to emphasise need So the British ate China; we need to spend more money on that side of the coin as well. training our younger people' And we CHINAS R0LE: And, the Chinese themneed to get our act together on some of do a can They do? selves, what can they lot to help restore confidence in Hong the issues regarding democracy, but, in my view, not too fast on that one. We Kong. Things were going very well until ers have indicated they would be fleibile problem need to, perhaps avoid the democracy the caused have They 4. to British June on passports. But they need the issue in China itself. They'll get there must they And it. accept and they should shów die way and they need the British eventually. They have a point when they is Hong instability China's that place see It's the to promote Hong Kong. say we should not meddle in their affairs. the what creates Thafs Kong's real fear. whère east meets west. Ifs a springboard 'We can show our feelings without that' the course, of and, here; uncertainty future. for participation in China's are an international city with a fanWe Funnily enough, China does have a heavy-handed repression.

'We rank 11th in the record. track tastic to be refusing are that they fact The going there be to future. China is always with an average nations, trading league of Basic the of aspects flexible on some and it's always going to be an economic per second only to Japan in income capita That good side. has its actually Law selling for force - maybe not as a market Asia. means, they're taking the document seriinto; but certainly as a production centre.

There is so much going for all three of agree would they were not, If they ously. for done And look what cheap labour has give It will work if we all spend a little in us. to need to anything. But they Taiwan, Korea, Thailand and, indeed, time trying to see where the other more afeas. some originally Hong Kong. guy is coming from and accepting our not a is reallY issue The Pl,A troops The British can also do much in Priin the deal - a deal that iesponsibilities it; modify could They for them. deal big China vate to get firm messages to China' ofthe century and, perthe deal could be or, number for example, to a minimum seems to think that there is nothing that a good way to close it and start into in haps, in except won't come they perhaps, stubborn it can do. It is reverting to the the next one. Good for China, good for case ofwar or severe civil unrest. attitude of issuing semi-threats, slogans arbithe West and very good for those who independent allow could They told be d to an stay in Hong Kong.

Basic the of tration over interpretation n that stuff fir problem if a going be to is which I¿w their in out ¿tn QUESIION: You descri'bed a communi'ty, they don't.

PR is bad. We are sophisticated. We are

of the Chinese immigrant is C$10,000 higher than his

THE CORRFSPONDENTNOVEMBER 1989 11 THE CORRESPONDENTNOVEMBER

1989

MEET THE PRESS largely refugee, which was enormously resilient, þretty soþhisticated þolìtically as well as econornically because i,t has suruiued all the crises you mentioned. On

þolitical democratisati,on ylu said:

'my

uiew on that, go slow'. How can you þossi-

bly, wi.th any aþþeal to this audience, describe one of the most soþhi,stica.ted,

reli-

able and secure clmrnutnities in the world and then say that you think we should go slow on democracy?

I don't think that we are sophisticated in factional politics. We have never really had political factions in Hong Kong and the way we are going about it, with very few people seeming to agree on any one subject, I have some concerns. One of my concerns is that if we move towards political parties, which I think a rush into democracy might bring, we might have one of those parties standing as the Communist Party. I see no reason why not. The Communist Party is legal in France, England and an awful lot of other places in the West. So we could have a MIIRRAYT

Communist Party.

I

don't know how

MEET THE PRESS possible. I would not like to put a number on it that might be in any way lower tha¡r what the British might be considering. At the momentwe should staywith the maximum; and a real request that they are as generous as possible. I really can't say more than that. I have some numbers in

my mind which I would regard derisory and totalþ unacceptable; and I think that I have some numbers in my mind that, personally, I think would enable us to manage our affairs, to encourage other people to follow suit and to enable us to get through comfortably to 1997. If we don't get to 7997, because half the people have left, that's our problem.

QIJESII0N:,4s mønaging di.rector of one of the biggest comþanies in Hong Kong, what would you see as the bottom line for støy-

i,ng here? Or, to þut it negatiuely, what would be the bottorn line for you consider-

ing ruouing ylur comþan!'s

assets

out of

the colony?

We cannot move our assets out of Hong Kong even if we wanted to. Our principal assets are the container termiMURRAY:

many hardcore communists there are in Hong Kong. In the old days, we used to say it was about 300,000. I'm not sure that in any kind of open election with party

developments in Ap Iæi Chau and so on.

And we have no intention at the moment

politics involved, the communists might not win. I think they misht get more peo ple together than anybody else is able to

of moving our domicile.

There are some questions that arise in the context of a domicile some of them

get together. We've got too many factions

are quite small and some of them are

here. I find it quite difficult to see more

quite interesting.

The Stock Exchange has changed its mind a couple of times on this business of buying back your own shares. Ifyou are domiciled abroad, you can buy back your own shares. And I think we would have bought back some of our own shares in October 1987 and perhaps again onJune 5.

There are some other questions that arise out of domicile. I've touched on the subject of communism. You can perhaps imagine a scenario where a Hong

than five people agreeing on one subject

in Hong Kong. My friends tell me that that is rubbish and nobody would vote for the communists. I'm not sure about that.

But just supposing they did and we had a Communist Party freely elected in Hong how that might look Kong before 7997

from outside?

-

So I'm not saying no to democracy.

The move towards electing members of

our government bodies and so

on,

I

think, the way it's going is excellent. But I think it needs to be thought through a little bit. Some of these guys standing on the boxes are saying things which they counteract the following day. And I don't think we are very clear on some of the issues of our politics. That's my only concern. you equate reþresentational ernment uith diu i,sia en e ss ?

Q{JFSIION: Do gou

I'm

saying that I think we should go about it a little bit slowly, thafs all.

MIJRRAY:

nal in Kwai Chung, massive property

-

Kong company is making a contested bid for an American company or British company and the defenders of that are using the fact that we are, perhaps, a freely elected communist country or we

are part of the communist bloc

as

ammunition against us. I think it could be quite effective.

So if we get on the subject of when would be 'enough-is-enough' for us to leave, I don't think we're anywhere near that kind of scenario. If we do have another June 4, then I think one might find an awful lot of people thinking again.

QIJESII0N: Could you tell us what is a. reasonable number of þassþorts we could

QUESIIONT

exþectfrom the UK?

quences afrer these þassþorts were handed out? For examþle, the Bri.tish gluernment

MIJRRAY:

I would like to see as many

12 rrrn coRRESPONDENT

as

Let's take this one steþ further

What do you exþect would be the conse-

NOYEMBER 1989

gi,aes

full þassþorts

to one out of euery three

men in Hong Kong, solely on the basis of his þotentiøl or his effectiaeness i,n creating wealth.

this town down to the rank of sergeant.

What happens to the guy who isn't a sergeant? Shall I tell you what? He works at it and becomes

I didn't actually say that. I talked about the police force and so on. I don't think they create wealth particularly.

a sergeant.

Then

he may get his passport.

MIIRRAYT

QUESII0N: So you're saying

this to create þrosþerity and stability. But I would þut it to you that those two out ofthree that did not get þassþorts øre going to get extrernely uþset because thi,s is a signøl thøt the 50year buffer þeriod is not deemed adequate i,n your eyes to þrotect Hong Kong and

another rneasure i,s necessary. And I would suggest there's a uery high þossibility of great þoliticøl uolatility as a result ofthi,s.

I think that if they give one out of three, we have a very good chance - if they're put in the right hands. Im not talking specifically about wealth, on the conha¡y. I think if they're put into the ha¡rds of people with money, thafs probably a waste of a passport. The people who've got money are very able to take care of themselves. Bul lefs answer your question.

Assuming it was one in three, and if they went into the right hands, I think you might find us in a much more stable position than we are today. But if no passports are given, instead of two people being furious you might have three peoMURRAY:

ple who are furious.

Hong Kong succeed on the basis of the entire community and not just the mønagerial class?

QUESIIONT Doesn't

MIIRRAY:

You're talking about the manage

rial class and trying to make it into an elite, prejudiced kind of argument. I've tried very hard to show that it is not that.

My argument is simply the more passports we get, in my opinion, the more people will stay.

I

have 480 managers in Hutchison, 200 of them have passports. On June 5 or June 6, I called them all in, all the guys with passports, I gave them a message.

That message was they would have to carry the load to a great extent, for the other 280 who had other things on their mind. I told them one or two other things as well. Up until that point, it was very difficult to know of the other 280 - without passports - who was applying and who was not applylng.Today, they are totalþ open about it. All 280 of them are applying for passports to leave. So it's passports to stay.

For example, they may give passports

in the police force down to the rank of sergeant. They are 20,000 policemen in

QIJFSII0N: Does he haue time?

MURRAY: He's got seven years. I think you could do an awful lot in seven years if you start now.

I said at the beginning, time is running out. You have it in a nutshell - the British have got to do something. But they won't do anything if your message is: if they don't give three million, we're going to have riots. They'll say no passports at all.

QUESII0N: How does onejudgethe effectiueness of the Honour Hong Kong Cornmittee if we haae to wqit until June of next yeør to find out about þassþorts? Iilhat are the

at the conferences - the Liberal conference, the Conservative conference - the I¿bour conference - we've got people in

in the European Parliament and so on, lobbying like mad.

We're getting quite good vibrations back.

But until the British make their move, ifs going to be very difficult for anybody else to make a move. In fact, I think it would be a good thing if other people hold their 'What fire. we don't want is the Americans to suddenly start dishing out passports, and the British to suddenly think they're offthe hook.

I think the time scale is going to be November, maybe. November is a good time, the Queen's speech is on November 11. Something may be said at that time.

Either way, it's going to be a long time, several months before anything is firm because of the procedures I referred to earlier, which they've got to go through.

Europe working

if

benchmarks i.n between their measuring

QIJESII0N: Do you worry that

þoints, and whøt would you exþect to see haþþen between now and then that we

þeoþle are giuen þassþorts, and there is another bumþ along the road to 1997, that many of them may take uþ their oþtion and moae to another country, leaui,ng no one manning the þumþs?

could recognise as reþræenting the effecti,ueness of the Honour Hong Kong Comrnittee?

MIJRRAYT

The Honour Hong

Kong

Committee campaign is just one of many campaigns.'We are not measuring it, nor seeking to measure it, in some kind of 'We're achievement. doing what we can, along with a lot of other people.

And within the membership and sup

porters of that campaign, there are an awful lot of people who are working on an individual basis a¡rd their trips to I¡ndon, seeing MPs and so on, and trying to spread the message and explain the prob lems of Hong Kong.

In

England,

these key

if you go north of

Watford, people have a problem understanding really what Hong Kong is all about. We even had Philip Crawley (editor of South China Morning Posú) on the radio the other day saying that people had stopped coming to Hong Kong because they thought we had tanks outside the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

in England, ifs also in Europe. We've had a lot of talks to American congressmen, and other groups. I think we have won the first round.

There was a time when Mrs Thatcher was sending letters saying that we are going to do something about reassuring people on their future security. That has changed. And recent documents say we want to give assurance to people that there will be right of abode, a¡rd for a certain number of people.

Thafs a step in the right direction. \{hat will happen now you've got people

Very viable question. But I don't have the answer to all the questions.

MIIRRAY:

cent of their exports go to Hong Kong. I think they need us financially. You've got to weigh that against their political behaviour. It's a very difficult one. But that is the reason that they always have, so far, toed the line. Billions of dollars, $300 billion of business being done with Hong Kong every year - multiply that by 50, Ifs a very big number and before you knock the thing over, I think you want to think about that. And I think they do think about it every day.

In spite of some of the things they might have said, I think they're very concerned aboutJune 4. I think they regret

it like hell. They're not going to

move

from their stance, which is this stubborn stance

that it really didn't happen. But

they're moving a little bit and they have already said it was a tragedy. The Chinese ambassador in Washington said it was a tragedy. That was a huge step forward; because they actually admitted that it happened.

They're talking in the newspapers

about non-interference with their systems, but the open-door policy will continue and will get wider, and so on. I think they're pretty desperate for a continuance of Hong Kong as it is today.

'What they do internally in China, God knows. They've done some pretty

Somebody said the other day that if you don't give any passports, then one thing's for sure; everybody would have to stay.

How do you argue about that? It's a good point. Therefore, don't give passports, because if something happens, the guys

strange things over the past 50 years and they do have the capacity every 10 years to give themselves a very good kick in the crotch. But I think we can leave that

with passports will be the first people out.

I can only go back to June 4 and what happened to the 200 people in my compa ny who do have passports. They didn't flinch.

Q{JESII0N:

QIJESIION: You'ue been røther oþtimistic

on that side of the border.

Li Peng said that if businessmen didn't wønt to come to Chinø and they wanted to lose the Chinese market, thøt wøs their lookout. He didn't cøre at all. Did you read the interoiew in l-a

in

your sþeech. It's all been þred.icøted on

MIJRRAY:

Beiiing is goi.ng to behaue reasonøbly in

way. What's your answer to that?

years ago when somebody asked him 'Will you put the PLA troops in Hong Kong whenyou get sovereignt/ he said, 'I'11 do what the hell I like'; because he was getting fed up with some of the nig-

MURRAÍ My only answer is the numbers and the commercial viability and what it means to them commercially. Why didn't

gling.

Actually, it doesn't matter if there are some PLA troops in Hong Kong. What matters is how many and what they're

Beijing behaui,ng reasonøbly. What grounds do you haue for thinking that thefuture? The reason euerybody is going is becøuse they høue øbsolutely no conrt.dence in Beijing behauing in ø ciaili,sed

I saw that, but not in L¿ Figaro.I

think that Deng Xaoping also makes some pretty sweeping statements. Some

China really storm in here in '67 during the Cultural Revolution? They were all

doing and so on.

over the place, the Red Guards were all

want to have elections, one of the contes-

there, we all said didn't they take it?

it

was all over, why

In my opinion, commerce, money, plays a big part in their thinking. Today they are desperate for foreign inveshnenl revenue and so on. I've said that 40 per

He said three years ago that if you

tants is going to be the Communist Party. He says a lot of things. Mrs

Thatcher also has been known to say that those hooligans who mess around on football fields in Europe should be shot. I don't think she really means that.

O

THE CORRESPONDENT NOVEMBER 1939

13

MEET THE PRESS

MEET THE PRESS

Air of hope and expectation in South Africa Peter Soal, a South African MP of the Democratic Party, says that there is now a mood of hope and expectation, among whites and blacks in his country, about political changes that have been long overdue. Soal spoke to FCC members at a luncheon meeting last month.

T P I'l BEEN HERE last year and cal structure, in any one sovereign counI vou'¿ asked me to tell you â tittl" ¡it try, you can only have one sovereign parI ä¡out South Africa, und thut *hil" liament.

Mr P W Botha, our finger-wagging state president was still the state president, I might have had a different message for you altogether. I think I would have told you that we v/ere in a cul-de-sac; that there was not much movement; that

So if the whites were to have control over their own political structures, that would mean continued white domination, even though ifs cloaked in the language

of general affairs. Because this is the terminology which is used these days to

reform, as P W Botha had introduced it. had come to a halt; the economy was in the doldrums; the brain drain of young people v/as on the go; that we, in South

explain the apartheid or the separateness of the r80s, the laws of the Group Areas

Africa, over our dinner parties talkecl

remain.

Act, the Race Classification Act, the Separate Amenities Act and the I¿nd Act

nothing but politics; and, how the situation is going to resolve itself in South Africa. \4rell, as

I

say, a lot of young people

from the political scene of the gentleman we came to know as the great crocodile; and that was Mr P lM Botha. as

Now Mr F \{ de Klerk has emerged the state president.

The results of the General Election were both surprising and encouraging.

Surprising because the Conservative Party, which is the party on the right, did worse than expected, winning only 39 seats. The prospect for major growth for the Conservative Party is slim indeed, unless there is a major shift in white opinion. Encouraging because ofthe surge of support for the Democratic Party, which is the party that I represent, and the response of the electorate to the overall concept of reform. And in round figures the National Party got 1,000,036 votes, the Conservative Party 680,000 votes and

has shifted its emphasis away from sepa-

is in sharp contrast to the election of 1987, where

mâke out. P W Botha, despite those changes, made it abundantly clear that

the three pillars of National Party policy were that the whites would have control over their own residential areas, the whites would have control over their own schools, and the whites would have control over their own political structures.

Those are three fundamental pillars of National Party policy. The real problem one has with that is that, in any one politi-

14 fiIE CORRESPONDENT

the emphasis was placed on

group rights. So the white community rateness to the concept of negotiation.

This has placed us, I believe, in a very delicate situation and thafs why I refer to

the growth of the Conservative Party because, if the current negotiating process turns sour, the whites could switch their support from the National Party and

the Democratic Party back to the rightwing party.

Race Classification Act and you need the Group Areas AcL So, what has changed?

Now, one must understand that the negotiating process is undefined and it is without specific direction. The president, Mr de Klerk, has obtained from the electorate a mandate to negotiate.

He simply asked in the election that people should give him this mandate to negotiate, without explaining where he was going. So, the emphasis is on negotiation which is, I say, quite different to the emphasis that was there in 1987, when we were beaten about the head by

On the ground, nothing has changed.

And yet, there have been changes mainly because the General Election on

opponents. Because we rrere soft on security, because we had some sort of

So, while you have those three pillars of government policy, own white residential areas, own white schools and own white political strucûrres, they can only be maintained if you keep those other fundamental laws - GroupAreas, Race Classiflcation, in

place. Therefore, you need

September

NOVEMBER 1989

a

6 signalled the departure

blacks in general. There's simply an air of hope and expectation in South Ærica.

I

say there's no specific direction.

There's no indication of where the negotiation will lead us. That's why Mr F W de Klerk is correct to say we should pursue this one step at a time because he doesn't know where the negotiating process is going to lead him.

I've got no doubt that he personally would like it to end in the situation where the whites would continue to dominate and enjoy the position of white privilege.

But that is a faint hope. The outcome of genuine negotiation will, no doubt, lead to equal opportunities for all.

Mr de Klerk, is an interesting individual. His role is highly significant in this process. By nature and from his back-

which is billed as an ANC meeting. Now there is a very important next step in this slow and delicate process. It's now up to them (ANC)to show that they're prepared to give as well. If they don't, if they adopt the hardline attitude, I think there could very well be a switch in white opinion which is ill-defined.

That's why it's pleasing to note that sanctions have been put on the back boiler by many countries while this process is under way. To try and push the whites against the wall is not going to

achieve the results that people want.

Youïe got to encourage people and massage them and make them feel comfortable with the changes that have got to be brought about. So I say, the message I

bring to you this year is different to the message I would have brought last year.

And simply because of this feeling of hope and the expectation that exists within white and black circles in South Africa, it's something to be nurtured and encouraged. It's a long and a slow and deliberate process.O

ground, he is a conservative.

He is the captive of the National Party machine whereas P W Botha was the cap tive of the military. There will be much more emphasis in the role of the party in the new South Ærica compared with the

party. He is of the party. His father was a party organiser. His uncle was a former prime minister, and his grandfather was a

port for the concept of negotiationr,This

Soal: To try and push the whites ag¡ainst the wall is not going to achieve the results that people want

with the ANC in particular and with

166. So if you add the National Party votes and the Democratic Party votes

There was a stalemate in constitutional changes, and the repeal of discriminatory

introduced legislation to provide for a liberalisation of the labour laws. Those were very significant changes indeed. They were of great consequence and they were not cosmetic as some people have tried to

The whites have come to realise that in some way there's got to be a negotiation

role played by the party under the P \M

togethel you get an overwhelming sup-

tion affecting mixed marriages and he

of argument was of no consequence.

we got 450,000 votes.

We got 33 seats, the Conservatives 39 and the National Party 93 in a chamber of

who were university-trained left South Africa in the mid-1980s to go and seek greener pastures elsewhere. That was very sad indeed. There was growing polarisation and tension in the country. legislation had ended.

Now, not that Mr P W'Botha had not made any substantial changes in the body politic in South Africa. After all, he had repealed the past laws. He had been responsible for repealing the influx control regulations. He repealed the legisla-

Congress (ANC) . But in 1989, that sort

Botha regime.

F W de Klerk has grown up in the

senator. Therefore, his natural instinct would be to retain the status quo. But that's not possible. Things are on the move in South Africa and there is a desire

for negotiation, but, as I say, undefined, not knowing where its going. Now F W de Klerk says he's committed to the system of general affairs which is the r80s version of separateness. However, the situation demands fundamental changes and he's shown himself in the past few weeks to be

flexible. That

is why he has

adopted the step-by-step process, even though his language is sometimes disap pointing. But there is cause for hope and optimism,because a process has been set

in motion in South Africa which will be difficult to halt.

A month ago,

',¡/e

had the marches in

Cape Town, and in Johannesburg, despite

the government and our right-wing

of the emergency regulations. No laws were changed, but the president amended the regulations by allowing the marches to take place. That was the first step. The next step was to release Walter Susulu and his seven pals. The step after that was to allow the marches against the labour 1aw

contact with the African National

rally in the stadium outside Johannesburg,

amendments that were introduced in Parliament last year. The next step is the

THE CORRESPONDENTNOVEMBER 1989 15

I .:iË

PHOTO ESSAY

last man into Beijing

:

wise. The plane bucked when we crossed

the Yangtze. On the bus to the terminal building a young Asian couple struggled with their carry-on and with two small

tain. Normalcy is always a matter of tion of perspective. The streets, littered

boys; Beijing's tarmac was tarnished by a summer haze.'\ suppose I should see it through" said the sensible English geo-

with carcasses of buses and military vehi-

Ir I lf

UNE 5th: The first flight out of Hong Kong was nearly empty. The stewardesses were more polite than

usual but the trip was uneventful other-

physicist sitting next to me; he had left

I¡ndon less than24 hours before.

We passed through immigration and customs without

difficuþ There seemed

.

to be no special orders for the day and the airport had not yet been taken over by the foreigners getting out. The airport staff clung to its routine, giving nothing away. Outside, a small group of taxi drivers huddled and watched.

"They're supposed to be meeting me," said the geophysicist. They were; he disappeared with his Chinese hosts.

BBC's Brian Barron and I decided to share a taxi. "Impossible," said the first driver we approached, making his hand into a pistol and firing it in our direction.

One, two, three hundred yuan; the trip was once again possible, if a little uncer-

by Mike Morrow

':

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degree and, to some extent, also a ques-

cles, were

still shuttered and

afraid.

Three hundred yuan was the price of all things considered.

I hadn't seen Brian in years. He had waited long on this story; then, like many others, he had gone back to Hong Kong

E The pictures on this and the next three pages are reproduced from Beiiing Sþring. lEFl students of Beijing University fly their school banners as tlle sun sets behind The Great Hall of the People.

J

ABOVE: At the western edge of Beijing, a young woman climbs onto the hood of an army truck with an emotional plea to soldiers not to move against the students.

A RIGHT: Student leader Chai Ling,

with Peter Turnley at the Jianguo Hotel.

Between mouthfuls of hotcakes and syrup

intense conversation in the square.

and too much coffee, I talked about my project. Peter introduced me to his twin brother, David. The Turnleys are among

menwai overpass in Changan Avenue.

INSET: A student casualty in Beijing in the pre-dawn of June 4.

A PAGE 19: Pedestrians and cyclists

manoeuvre past a convoy of burnt-out trucks and armoured personnel carriers on western Changan Avenue. The vehicles were abandoned by soldiers and later set afire by students.

1989

finall¡ the book that we did. It began to take shape from a breakfast encounter

elected commander of the Headquarters

defensive positions at the Jianguo-

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tures by David Turnley and Peter Turnley; text by Melinda Liu) is now,

to Defend Tiananmen Square, holds an U PAGE lB; Soldiers and tanks take up

16

and missed its high point. I had not been waiting on anything, and, if truth be told, was still not very sure why I was here. "I have a small publishing company," I told Brian "We're going to do a book about what's happened." I think he believed me.

Beijing Sþring (A photo essa¡ pic-

the top photojournalists in the world

today. Peter was in Beijing for Newsweek, where his work was running cover after

cover and throughout the magazine.

David had won the World Press Photo First Prize the year before for a picture from Armenia; he was'covering for the

Detroit Free Press and Black

Star.

Between them, they had been in Beijing since Hu Yaobang's death in mid April.

Outside, the shooting had not yet stopped and they were still on the story.We agreed to meet back in Hong Kong.

Within a couple of weeks Peter and David and I were on planes to New York, where Black Starkept most of their photography. Melinda Lir, Neutsweeå3 Hong Kong-based Asia Pacific editor, had agreed to write the main text. Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York publishers,

had shown interest in an American edition. They had recently brought out David's excellent photo essay on South Afnca, Why Are They Weeþing.

In New York, Howard Chapnick, head of Black Stør and one of the grand old men of photojournalism, not only helped with introductions to Andy Stewart, the publisher of Stewart, Tabori & Chang, but volunteered to write the foreword.

Orville Schell, the astute China historian, author and sometimes journalist said he

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PHOTO ESSAY

tor, in a transcontinental marathon of editing by fax machine. Her colleague, Mary Albi and our Richard Jones, began the marketing. I went on vacation.

Beijing Sþring reflects the spirit that

Many years ago, as a young reporter in Vietnam, I happened to come across a company of US Marines as they were climbing aboard a Chinook at Phu Bai air base. Sawada, the very brave UPI photog' rapher whose picture now hangs in the FCC, had, independently, happened upon the same helicopter. 'Tl¡here're you headed?" we asked the sergeant. "Hue," he said. He let us on. It was February 1968, the Tet Offensive. Sawada and I, unwittingly, accompanied the first company of soldiers dropped into relieve the MACV compound. Most of our companions were

touches on the most noble of those when he writes:

casualties bythe end ofthe day.

But Sawacla took important pictures and I learned first hand what Howard now

would prepare the introduction. Randy Miller, graphics editor of the Detroit Free Press and designer of David 'lurnley's

South African book, took on design responsibilities. Andy Stewart used his influence to get us press space with Toppan in Tokyo and Maureen Graney, his senior editor, dropped other work to join Jan Krikke, our publishing coordina-

it rtu

t

moved this team. Howard Chapnick

"This is a book of remembrance. It to present and unborn generations. It is a document that captures and speaks

preserves

the indomitability of

the human spirit and its insatiable search for freedom. It is committed to keeping memory alive, to confronting the lies of historical revisionists...certain events are so monumental, so symbolic, so glorious,

i

and speak so eloquently to our highest

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ideals that they transcend the immediacy of news. History demands that they be preserved."

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Beijing Sþring came out fine. I am proud of it in a personal, subjective way.

Not because I took the pictures, wrote the text, did the graphic design, edited, printed or sold the book. I did none of those things. But, urged by Jan Krikke, I did, as an act of will, get on the plane that June morning. Had I not done so, Beijing Spring probably world not exist.

That I could act on my choice is, as Marx understood, a function of my economic condition (threadbare bourgeois).

But, as some communists have failed to

making of history, and about the imporofhaving it, ofknowing lance ofchoice - of you have it and using it well. Now every time I publish a book I reflect on

realise, that I did act on my choice has something more to do with Hegel and with our species' immense potential to create its own space.

At least part of me exists in what Marcuse called "the realm of the subjective." That's how we used to talk about it in the r60s, and perhaps that's how they talked about it at Tiananmen. Anyway, I still believe it there is a joker in the deck, and, as Pogo said, he is us. I have space of mind, of body and of time which is turns mine to use as I see fit - more asinit Hong out because I'm a publisher Kong rather than a student in China. In getting on the plane that morning, I used

that lesson.

my space well.

writes about. I stayed in Hue until the end; it came, a month late¡ when the last American and the last Vietnamese were killed in a bitter shootout in the extreme northeast corner of the Citadel. I was going to write a book about that battle; I never did. But I did learn something about the place each of us occupies in the

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MEDIA

A clean sweep by the Post Newspaper takes all journalism awards in English-language category for 1988/89 HE South China Morni,ng Post teant of prize-winners were all smiles at the presentation ceremony at the Furama Hotel last month.

No fewer tha¡r 10 members of the staff were chosen by the Newspaper Society of

Hong Kong for its 1988-89 Journalism

Awards.

Chief reporter, Simon Macklin, was named Journalist of the Year. Macklin,

27, aBriton who began his journalism

career in Hong Kong four years ago, also won the Best Feature-story category for his article on letters written by refugee children.

The award for the Best News Story went to Post's assistant editor, Anne Quon, who broke the news of a UN

High Commissioner for Refugees' report detailing allegations of brutality towards Vietnamese boat people at the Hei Ling Chau detention centre in July last year.

The report led to the governor of Hong Kong, Sir David Wilson, ordering an inde pendent inquir¡ which found that exces-

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Business reporter, Eva To, won the Best Business Story category for the general all-round excellence ofher entries.

The Best Story Award, again for allround excellence, went to deputy sports editoç Spencer Robinson, 27.

America¡r l-arry Feign, creator of the World of Lily ï[ong cartoon strip which appears on page 2 ofthe Posl on weekdays, won the Best Cartoon category.

Paul Best, the P¿st's chief editorial artist, won the Best Illustration category with his impression of former Light Rail Transit executive, Joe Wade.

The 2$year-old native of New Zealand

won the prestigious Australian Walkley Award for illustration last year while working with The Australian.

The Posf's photographers also picked up a clutch of awards, which went to Robert Ng. The other winning Post photographers were Sam Chan (second in

the News and third in the Sports categoies); Oliver Tsang (second, Sports); David Wong (third, News); and outstanding award winners PY Tang, CY Yu and Peter Tse. The awards were donated by leading Hong Kong companies. Simon Macklin's

top prize came from the HongkongBank Foundation, with Cathay Pacific providing a return business-class ticket to any destination in Asia.

Winners in other categories received $5,000 each, donated by Kumagai Gumi, $2,S00

the Swire Group, Hutchison Whampoa, San Miguel, Hongkong land and Esso.

The judges were Mrs Irene Yau, Director of Government Information Services; Michael Keats, vicepresident of

UPI in the Asia-Pacific region; and Louis lkaar, a former Asia correspondent and member of the boârd of editors of. Fortune International.

While there had been a solid response from the Posl and the Hongkong Standard in the number of entries, a Newspaper Society spokesman said the Chinese sec-

tion had had a "particularþ

poor

response", which resulted in awards being made in only two of the seven categories.

The award for the Best Illustration category for Chinese was won by Wong I{anang of Ming Pao, while the Best Comic Strip award went to Wong Kee-krvan, also of Ming Pao.

The spokesman said the number of Chinese entries was not satisfactory this year perhaps because reporters of Chinese newspapers were preoccupied with covering China's pro-democracy movement when entries closed on May 31.

While the South China Morning Post front-paged the report, accompanied by photographs of its staffers and Lily Wong, fhe Hongh,ong Standørd ignored the story completely.

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SCMP prize-winners (from left): Paul Best, Eva To, Robert Ng, Spencer Robinson, David Wong, Sam Chan, Ann Quon and Oliver Tsang. Macklin and Feigr were out of town,

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publication previousþ disfibuted with the Sunday Morni,ng Post, now appears on alternate Fridays in its new format within the daily South China Morni,ng Post.

While the entry of a quality Sunday newspaper magazine on the Hong Kong

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market was generally welcomed, some eyebrows were raised over its advertising rates - HK$40,000 for a full page, 4<olour;

and $26,000 for a full page, black-andwhite.

"The Sunday magazite is a very interesting and very welcome development and long overdue," said one media director.

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ing given the state of current competition. The pricing may have been set against a more positive understanding of the market than now prevails.

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Chadha

HE Sunday Morning Post Magazine, in a glossy, colour format, is dis-

tributed free with the Sunday

Morning Post and aims to generate fresh advertising revenue, particularþ in Hong Kong's leisure and lifestyle sectors.

"Our aim is to be the best avenue for both advertising and editorial," said John

eyes of the people they aÍfect," he said.

"People will be the key philosophy of the new magazine.It will focus largely on Hong Kong, but international issues and

people overseas will not be ignored they are of interest to our read-

if

ers."

Dux said the

magazine can achieve an instant reader-

ship of close to 250,000, which the

-

find in the United States, Europe and Australia."

Dux said the gap in the market was identified about two years ago and it was a natural progression for The Sunday Morning Post to move into that area and filI the gap for its readers as well as the advertisers.

Although the editorial emphasis for the magazine is on lifestyle and leisure, Dux said topical issues will also be covered. '"The magazine will not ignore issues. It will look at them through the

22

that "We have come in at a peak annual advertising period. We feel we will be in a good position to pick up Christmas business and position ourselves in the market as a vehicle for quality advertising when the next round of schedules are considered for the coming Dux laughed off the suggestion

"We believe that no other English

newspaper package of the type you might

already been settled, Dux said, adding

that the magazine was Posf's response to Hong Kong Standard's tabloid Sunday

Morning Post Publishers Ltd.

Hong Kong. We are confident the new tnagazine will help build circulation and readership for the nerrspaper as well as give Hong Kong what it has needed for a a complete quality Sunday long time

Many advertising schedules have

year."

Dux, editor-in-chief of the South China

Sunday Morning Post can provide with its circulation of nearly 80,000 copies."

Added Dux "To my knowledge there has never been a comparable magazine in

"I would like to believe, however, it would stimulate growth in the colour

Magazine, launched six months

ago.

magazine

will have a heavy emphasis on good pho-

"I really don't think

can compare chalk

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colour magazine going fresh into a market. It is

issue. the guaranteed audience reach of

uct."

Peter Cordingley, formerþ editor of the group's

TV and

ber editorial team, while

THE CORRESPONDENTNOVEMBER

for a weekly

tabloid newsprint magazine.

Ours is a high quality prod-

'"lhe quality of the paper being used in the magazine, which is bigger than A4 size, will allow us the opportunity to display pictures and adopt a more open layout."

He said the timing of the launch was to enable the magazine to gain market recognition during the important preChristmas advertising schedules.

environment

not going onto a newsstand.

"No other magazine can claim such a

and

and design.

Cfagrr

"Our past surveys have shown that Sunday Morning Posl readers are decision makers with the highest disposable incomes in Hong Kong. That is a unique

cheese. That (Standard's) is a

Entertainment Timesheads the 11-mem-

tography

magazine investment area; and should represent an opportunity for overall print media's growth in Hong Kong."

However, Dux countered that lengthy discussions had taken place before determining the rates. "It must be emphasised that the magazine will be distributed with a neìMspaper which already has a highaudited circulation and quality readership," he said.

commanding position from

its first

the magazine, its quality of reproduction and particularly its content will, in time, justify the rates which have been

Pandora Ip SinJam, previmedia director with tæo Burnett, is leading the sales team as advertising manger.

Both sections are to be expanded soon.

set."

Toppan is printing the magazine and there are no plans to bring it in-house, for that will require massive investments in new machinery.

Dux also emphasised that the magazine will not take advertising away from the main paper or other in-house publica-

Ambrose Turnbull

tions, such as

ously assistant

is the marketing

director.

In keeping with the new Sunday image, other Sunday Morning Post sections have been reorganised to accommodate the new title. The former Living section has been incorporated into a new and expand-

W

and Entertqinment

Timæ or the'Asia Magazine.

"It is only taking advertising

away from other lifestyle and leisure magazine and from TV. Asia Magøzin¿ is not affected because it does not compete on O a local basis."

A voice for the territory's Filipinos

(, i:: liîil"'îä.::Tå'Ëå"i.'i: ^Ã.

ne of the reasons Brian Neil has

used to , is because he has been busy with

a new magazine which he launched in October. The new pubTication, Tinig

Filiþino, is aimed specìfically at the 50,000 Fiþinos living in Hong Kong and Macau, and is the first locally produced publication to cater for this market.

Ti.nig Filiþino, which means'T'oice of the Philþpine People", is produced mainly in Pilipino, with some articles in English.

Editorial content includes news of local Filipino sporting and social activities ( a sort of upmarket Philippine Tatler) ; contnbutions from the local Filipino community; household hints; beauty tips; entertainment news; and advice on the many various problems facing Filipino domestic helpers in the region.

Neil has been working on the project

for the past nine

who has several university degrees and is

fluent in Pilipino, English and Japanese, and has extensive writing and editing experience in the Philippines, Japan and HongKong.

The name of the magazine was decided by running a contest among local Filipinas. From more than 300 suggested litles, Ti.ni,ng Filipino was chosen by a panel of six Filipina judges. As it happened, the winning title was submitted by Lucila Jingco, a missionary who has been

working for several years in Hong Kong to advise Filipinas in need of help. Jingco is now also a member of the editorial staff.

A percentage of the revenue of the magazine will be set aside to be donated

to registered Filipino charities in Hong Kong, and Neil has a team of experienced

legal and social advisors helping decide where best to distribute these funds.

Another objective of the magazine is to

attempt to unite the various Filipino groups and associa-

months and has had

enthusiastic support

from the Consul

t{ll\

Philippine

51,0m

General,

Vicente G.

Reyes; and

Iægco Member

Urban Councillor, Elsie

Tu; the heads of religious and social groups; and members of the Fiþino community ran-

tions in order to give the community a stronger voice when abuses occur, which they do more often than people are aware of. "In fact," says Neil, "many Filipinas are treated worse than the Vietnamese refugees, but you rarely hear

the same sort of public outcry about this."

Reaction to the first issue,

ging from topranking bank executives to the Filipina bargirls of Wanchai. Neil admits he is acquainted with more of the latter tha¡r the former.

"I got the idea some time ago, when I saw the type of material that the girls in Statue Square were reading", says Neil, "and I was quite surprised to learn that there were no publications produced locally for this audience. A few people scoffed at the idea when I mentioned it, but after doing some research I decided the project was viable, though I probably would not have gone ahead had it not been for the

support of fellow FCC membe¡ Tony

says Neil, has been very positive. '"What many people, especially adver-

tisers, fail to realise," Neil says, "is the actual spending power of the Filipinas in Hong Kong, which research has shown to be around HK$1,500,000,000 a year - even after they have sent about 60 per cent of their salaries back home.

"You only have to see the amount of stuff the girls take back to the Philippines with them on their holidays - cassette recorders; TV sets; electric fans; toys; a¡rd a host of other products which are too expensive in the Philippines, if they are

Baynes, Head of RTHK Radio 3, and Vilma Gardiner who presents the "Mabuhay''show on Radio 3."

available at all.rl Brian Neil has been known around the

Vilma is lead singer of 'Asian Passion", a group which has proved very popular at FCC functions over the past few years.

She and her three sisters are now all on the editorial staff of the magazne.

and copy editor with a reputation for being somewhat pedantic. Why, then, is his frst venture into publishing, a magazine written in a language he doesn't even understand? "Because," says Neil, "I don't have @ to proofread the bloody

The editor of Tinig is Marivic Reyes,

territory for many years as a proofeader

thing!"

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23

CLU

NEWS

Into the

4lst year

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ALL three floors of the FCC were packed to capacity when the Club celebrated its 40ttt anniversary in Hong Kong on Friday, October 13. About 5OO rnembers and guests took part in the celebration. Among thern \ilere some former presidents and absent members coming from abroad specially for the occasion. Selected delicacies - Irish smoked salmon, Chilean oysters, etc - were flown in for the party. Carlsberg supplied all the beer needed for the evening and Malaysia Airlines supplied orchids presented to everyone who came for the party. And, there was music on every floor theYictoĂ&#x2026;a Jazz. Band performed in the main dining room upstairs, Andrew Bull's Disco Disco played at the main bar and I-arry Allen kept members entertained at the pool bar in the basemenL

More 4Oth

affriversary pictures on next page

24

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THE CORRESPONDENTNOVEMBER 1989 25

CLUB NEWS

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1989

OUTDOORS

OUTDOOR

The agony and the achievement Grinter-Morgan trek home in style and Brand-Waters-GauntRiggs beat the time limit to raise nearþ $20,000 in donation pledges for Oxfam on the Maclehose Trail.

f f THEN an FCC team entered the lrt/ Maclæhose Trail walk last Y Y aurumn, they were aptiy cailed

'the trailblazers'. Yet it was surprising in many ways to find that a walk-mania has set in among members - at least among some of the basement bar regulars.

A surprising number of no less tha¡r halfa-dozen men and women ventured out on the 1O0-kilometre torturous, blister- causing, rugged terrain of the New Têrritories hills last month to test their stamina as well as ability to endure pain and keep a hold on their temper at the same time. Five of them grouped into two teams representing the Club while the sixth man, Richard Willsteed of Price \Materhouse, walked with

FCC team members (from lefi) Elizabeth Gaunt, Barbara Waters, L¡nn Riggs and Thomas Brand brealdast at the Club before assembling in the foyer with ftelow) Stephen Morgan and Robert Grinter.

Robert Grinter catches up with the world before taking the trail.

his company's team.

The Club teams, atwomember, all-male

in 26 hours and 17 minutes.

"Our goal last year," says Grinter, "was to complete the walk. This year, the

it in reasonably

group comprising former ICAC official

aim was to complete

Robert Grinter and Stephen Morgan of the Far Ea.stern Economic Reui.ew, a¡rd a mixed foursome consisting of three Club members - Asiaweek's general manager, Thomas Brand; publisher of the nowdefuncl Automated Off.ce, Barbara Waters;

good time."

This year's achievement is the result

learned member Elizabeth Gaunt of

- and a non-member, Lynn Riggs, manager of the Spotlight Recreation Clifford Chance

Club at Whampoa Garden, raised nearþ $20,000 in donation pledges for Oxfam in whose aid the walk was organised by the Queen's Gurkha Signals and sponsored by the Hongkong Bank.

Grinter, the man who brought trail walk to the Club last year, was the only person on the Club teams trekking the trail the second year running. l¿st year, he and his fellow walkers

-

freelance jour-

nalist Barry Grindrod, Hongkong Standard staffer Ong Hock Chuan and journalist-turned stock-brokerage-house execcompleted the utive Stephen Rogers 10O-kilometre trek in -33 hours and 34

minutes to become the 74th runner up.

This year, the Grinter-Morgan team set a new Club record by completing the walk

28 rrrn coRRESPoNDENT No\tsMBER

of a well-planned training programme and strategy. Grinter has been training

for this feat since his return to Hong Kong in September, after the post-retirement home leave he earned at ICAC. But Morgan, who stepped forward to support Grinter when his last year's teammates backed out for personal reasons, could not get as much training.

So

it was Grinter's strategy that made

Morgan keep pace. He insisted that nei ther of them carry any supplies other than torchlights and a small quantity of water and fruits so that weight would not slow them down. Supplies were stored at

secret hideouts at four checkpoints obviously, thirst and hunger made them virtually run to these locations with little rest on the way.

Recalling the experience a week after the event, Grinter conceded there were

moments of frustration along the way.

"Steve's language on the way up the Needle Hill," he says, "would have made an army team blush."

1989

The co-ed team of Brand, Waters, Gaunt and Riggs had only one simple complete the ambition on their minds trek within the 48-hour -limit. And they did it in 46 hours and 31 minutes.

With such a modest goal in mind, the team set out after breakfast at the Club.

They carried a sufficient supply of food and water in their backpacks while editor of The Corresþondent, Viswa Nathan was drafted to drive up to designated checkpoints with homecooked hot meals.

Driving

in the New Territories,

Nathan thought, was fun until he had to

figure out the way to reach checkpoint six at Kowloon Reservoir at 8 a.m. on the second day of the walk to serve the walk-

ers fried rice specially prepared by Waters' aunt, Mrs Jackson, Dreyer's ice cream and hot coffee.

"I ended up once in Kwai Chung, the next time in Tsuen Wan," says Nathan, before he was successively piloted by a

KMB bus driver and a kind-hearted

Taipo Road resident to reach the destination four hours behind the appointed time. But, then, team 230 was still some two hours away from the checkpoint!

But at the finishing point, Nathan says, "they beat me by 20 minutes and a O can

ofCarlsberg".

THE CORRESPONDENTNOVEMBER 1989 29

NEW MEMBERS

VIDEO CLUB

Walter Salmon came to

TIIE video library, located just off the Pool Room bar on the lower g¡ound floor, is open: Monday to Friday (L2pm- 2.3opm and 5pm - 7.30pm) and Saturday (12pm - 2.3opm).

Hong Kong from Qatar to

become surveying manager with Webb, Faithtul & Gould Limited 18 months ago.

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Tony AJlison, deputy editor of Ihe Suuday Morning Posf, has

for South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd since coming to Hong Kong four years ago. Previously he

worked

the flesh. Starry William

Defoe,

David Bowie and Barbara Hershey.

was deputy chief sub-editor for

The Accused At least one rape is reported every six minutes in America today, and one in four is a multiple attack. . .

Ihe Rand Daily Mail in South Africa.

Hong Kong-born Doris I¿u is a director with public relations firm Turner Spurrier Rowland. l¿u, a former journalist,

This highly controversial film has caused heated debates in the U.S. and many other countries. Jodie Foster won an Academy Award for best

has been working with the

firm for more than three

actress for her portrayal of Sarah Tobias in this drama.

years.

Gorillas in the Mist The true adventure of Dian FosseY. Academy Award-winner, Sigourney .Weaver, plays the part of anthropologist Dian Fossey - murdered for her beliefs in 1985. Dian Fosseyrs rema¡k-

able discoveries caused worldwide shoclavaves. This film is the sensational testimony to her heroism.

Iron Eagfe

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An American and Russian squadron of renegades thrown together to fight an outland nation holding the world hoslage. The outcome is quite spectacular. An action packed drama starring Louis Gossett Jr.

Rex

Edward Nemeth, manager of business development for the BEL Trading Group moved to Hong Kong from the US more than a year ago.

Robin Ajello, Pacific editor lor Off Duty magazine, arrived in Hong Kong a year ago from

Vancouver where he was

a

reporter for the Vancouuer Courier

Tony Crabb is

deputy

director of advertising at RTHK. Between 1985 and 1988 he was controller of

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corporate news services for the BBC. He is a member of the Royal Television Society.

Busin ess, Chin a-Pa c irt c Trau el-

Atlanta, Georgia.

ler, Newsweek, Discouery ar'd Off Duty. Before coming to

Andrew Rex, editor for

Hong Kong he was with Reuters in Paris.

Yojana Sharma is a stringer for the Daily Telegraþl¿. Before moving to Hong Kong a year

Kim Ingfis,

the orôfessionals at

PRINTLINE UTD.

Theiler

for China Trade Commun-

1984

he was

Asehi's

correspondent in Bangkok.

Brian Hood, deputy financial editor of the Sundry Morning Post, came to Hong Kong in

1985 from the Blackpool Euening Gazette. He was

Hong Kong-born Thomas Cheng is a staff photographer for Agence FrancePresse and has worked extensively also as

deputy chief sub-editor of the

a cameraman and soundman.

Hongkong Standard before

employers include CBS News, Visnews

Robert Deslongrais is managing director of

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Toshihiko

Kong bureau chief of Toþo's Asahi Shimbum newspapeÍ.

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Richard Simmonds, who

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Hanano Toshihiko is Hong

London before moving to

glossy magazines.

London's Independent

caught in the

Being.

adise are closed all around him.

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assistant editor of

Blackheath Reþorter in e

director of technical operations for NBC

years, working for such publications as Far East

been a freelance photographer in Hong Kong for nearly two

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