The Correspondent, August 1990

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Paul Ba¡úeld

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Saul

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FORMER FCC presi-

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dent, Donald Wise,

John Andrews, Bob Davis, Teresa Gibbs, Robin Moyet Chris Peterson, Claudia Rosett, Michael Taylor, Steve Vines

was the first newsman

to sail through the

Journalist Member Governors

Suez Canal when it

David Thurston, Stuart I{olfendale.

reopened to shipping

Associaûe Member Governors Ken Ball, Wendy Hughes, Peter Humble,

Dorotþ

some flve months

Ryan.

Professional Committee: Conuenor:PaulBayfield, Memben: Peter Seidltiz, Peter Humble, Saul l¡ckhart, Dorotþ Ryan, Wendy Hughes, Teresa Gibbs, Stuart Wolfendale, Michael Taylor, Bob Davis

IT WAS a fun-filled evening at the Club on July 19 when Australia's premier folk/rock group, The Sundowners, played. The audience danced on the floor L2

after the 1956 Suez 'War. Wise had to disguise as a crewman on a Finnish freighter for the voyage. 5

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In March 1957 the Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean with the Red Sea was still closed, although German salvage crews had cleared much of the clutter caused by the six-day war in October 1956 when British, French and Israeli forces attacked Egypt. The reason: in July thatyear its President Gamal Abdul Nasser had unilaterally closed the waterway to Israeli shipping which, in Jerusalem, was regarded as an act of war. Former FCC president, Donald Wise, covering Africa and the Middle East from his base in Nairobi, Kenya, for the mass circulation British newspaper, Daily Exþress (cir: four million), suggested to his foreign editor that he get aboard the first convoy to open the canal whenever that happened. Idea approved.

I' T

Ir

month's chug-

Hi.ii,"T,:;

trying to perbound through Suez suade unsympathetic -ships' masters to take me aboard as a 70 US cents-a-day (the going rate) crewman. No ship's captain wanted to take a British passenger on the first canal convoy, of course.

My job was further complicated by

having to discard all ships with less than a 42-foot draft and by tryirig to guess which and owners would bet time and money

patience

--

waiting for the canal- to be

reopened rather than choose to go round the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

Most skippers were afraid of Egyptian disfavour and gave me the cold shoulder until I met man-mountain Jungle Jim (as his crew called him), the Finnish skipper of a 7,000-ton, ancient, oil-burning rustbucket, the Otto I/ that should have been

enough to satisfyJungle Jim.

We lurched northwards from Aden

-- with iron ore from the !'ar East,

three woolly Chinese dogs, a black cat, a monkey, a goose and me, the ageing panting up white-jacketed saloon boy the Red Sea at eight knots-like a shunting engine, edging aside millions of magenta-hued jellÉish.

he was, It was to take me 64 days to reach l¡ndon from Nairobi from where I had started by flying to Aden-3,500 dishes washed and 7,650 square yards of polished panelling behind me. I started the masquerade as a cabin boy It ended when I reached I could land at no the first British port other - which hrrned out to be Gibraltar,

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I learned from Jim how to be

a fast

steward with a packet of soap powder and

a set of dishes. And don't think I didn't soon get to know that an open porthole cuts out drying. Give me a panelled saloon even now and I'11 have it gleaming in a trice with my own vacuum-cleanernail-varnish treatment. Never waste furniture polish: you can drink that.

Haul me up a shark and I will cut it into 50 pieces and never be surprised when the pieces hop about half an hour later. Want a trip ashore when shore leave is banned? Ask for dental treatment: the dentist cannot

While waiting for the canal to reopen we hove to at sea or loitered in harbours as hot as blow-torches. The tearaway crew drank eau-de-cologne and a motorman tried to catch sharks with his bare hands.

Our second monkey misjudged the ship's rail when tipsy and his last handspring on this earth landed him in the water.

One officer was a loon terrifìed of the moon. The goose on the poop above the

crew's quarters made the mistake of honl<ing during a Sunday siesta and was promptly beheaded by a furious motorman with a carving knife.

Iron one heaviest cargo and filling half

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heaved and hvisted the old barge so wildly that the rats took Í:ight and died in ambushes laid by the ship's cat. the hold space

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Our giant captain rode herd with

a

blackjack on the bearded, muttering crew continually growling for a liquor ration (always refused). Suspicious of me atfìrst they were never told I was a reporter -in case they told the Egyptians - they became the friendliest cut-throats I ever

wish to meet. To port authorities they were a nightmare, leaving behind sobbing women, broken heads and most of their pay in the local magistrate's cashbox,

melted down into park railings or boot

hump his chair up a ladder. Short of money?

Abruptly, as we were east of Port

scrapers years before. It had wallowed the world's waves for most of the century but I managed to sign on because the crew had

Think of all those nice new fluffy towels in

Sudan in the Red Sea, the agents ordered us to heave to: there was a hitch in the opening ofthe canal and a new date would

the stewal'd's linen store thatyou can barter.

rioted in Aden and their casualties had

I went to my bunk early and, if the friendly monkey did not come through

been flown home to northern Europe.

the porthole to play leveille with a bite on

Jungle Jim, short of men after his hard-drinking crew had gone on that

my ear,

monumental bender, flung a white jacket at me and told me to get to work. I had seen him pick up what he thought was a large brawling man during the big punchup and heave him into the gutter outside only to see the body break into two small men. 'A stowaway," he roared delightedly.

He seemed to be my man and, indeed,

I

was stet by the bewitching

scream of the rust drill on the iron deck.

Did I complain when the mate's wife pinched my clothes' pegs and my jeans blew into the sea? Not on your life. But she would have had to swim back to the Gulf of Akaba for her pedal-pushers. I saw to that.

I could not shoot the sun. I was a terrible helmsman and I spilled as much coffee as the cook warmed up, but I learned

be announced. After a spate of cabling they reluctantly allowed Jungle Jim into Port Sudan harbour to let his crew loose.

The highspot of the three-day pass was when I was stopped by armed police with a bag of cats slung over my shoulder as I

tried to get back aboard ship late

one

night. The ship's cat had become impossibly randy and some eight crew members and I had gathered in the same number of which, to our stunned surprise, cats

- out to be prohibited exports. turned

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REMEMBERED YESTERDAYS There followed a tortured explanation between the Sudanese police captain and

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(English spoken), relayed by me in German to the one German-speaking Finn who then translated it to his mates.

Drunk as we all were, this procedure was too slow for the crew One member took a bottle from his hip pocket and threw it

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of pilots and could run only one convoy a day in each direction instead of two.

Four hours later the lead ships started

off again

bank. The remainder with silk - those or expensive underwear he automatically classified as officers- and they were sent marching back towards the Israeli positions in the Sinai under the escort of a single Israeli soldier.

As Saturday fell we reached Port Said on the Mediterranean. An American pilot

Greek, Italian, German,

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Russian and Finnish

leaving a solitary

- did not have anchored Turk which Nasser's kind of money. At seven knots the convoy sailed into the canal past

past my head at the captain.

The Finn was put in irons and the rest

German salvage ships lifting the remains

took over from the Egyptian and the

of the last canal obstacle, the scuttled

of us were hustled aboard without the yowling cats. We found the ship was about to sail because the canal \Mas nov/

ship Aboukir. W'e passed polished brass plates on the offices of the British ship ping companies there were no - where longer any Britons and I saw the dispossessed British consulate where cheerful Consul Joe Mulvaney had dispensed cold beer until the last.

German and we clouted a buoy immediately. He got us past blacked-out neon signs which used to beam the merits of British cigarettes and whisþ. And so out to sea. No sooner had the pilot gone down the ladder when three more pairs of unlighted buoys bobbed into sight.

I was exhausted by the whole thing,

defnitely opening in four days'time, leaving just sufficient leeway for us to be in Suez, the town at the southern end of the

ca¡al. Here police officers had me stand before them while they argued whether

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peered at the canal banks while Jungle Jim laboured to find the so-called canal temper of his ship. To all questions their answers remained: "It's up to you." The yaing, a sharp west wind, bit into shivering Egyptian anti-tank and anti-aircraft crews dug in beside ferries and signal

who might be aboard one of those 10 other ships sailing away withoutthe Otto

past a shattered tank and bomb-torn

1L All day I cursed and agonised as we lay dead in the water.

This was where, when the war rvas

with hands

Nasser (was everyone and everything called Nasser here, for crissake?) slid

had started his own ad hoc repatriation scheme of captured Egyptian troops.

They sat in the sand in a large clump, covered by the heavy machinegun in the back of a halftrack. Line by line of 10 men, he would make them drop their trousers and, depending on the quality of their underweaç direct them towards a flat-bottomed skiff floating on the canal.

When that was fulI of men in cheap cotton skiwies he would give the Egyptian side of the waterway a wave and order the boatman to take the PoWs back

- by the next behind everyone else. Yet dawn we sailed into the Great Bitter l¿ke to find the rest of the convoy - which should have been in the Mediterrane¿ur blinded and halted by now - still there, by a sandstorm.

Here we exchanged our

for an Egyptian and a German. (Regular French and British Greek pilots

pilots had been replaced when war broke oul) These two had qualified after 12 minutes through the canal. Nasser was short

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absent from the bridge for that long

Teresa Gibbs moves on T IS with regret that I have to announce the resignation of

correspondent member governor, Teresa Gibbs. Teresa (aboue) is heading back home to the US after having spent several

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humble offering wonld have been a bottle of tranquilisers for his nerves.

I received a herogram from the editor for my pageone splash story, plus a good bonus, and was told to bring Matli Sovio thatwas our shippe/s real name -I¡ndon - to from Gibraltar for a big celebration. But, after agonising for 24 hours, he

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via Portishead shipshore radio link to I¡ndon, well in time to lead the Monday's Daiþ Exþress. The jubilant Egyptians had presented the captain of my ship with flowers when he reached Port Said: my

home, away from the Israeli occupied

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Saturday night and Sunday to let the radio operator tap out my story in Morse code

had run into a South

African officer of the Israeli army who

almost a day

had the supreme joy of having all

palms at Kantara.

Next morning, early, a tug called alongside to tow us north

over the side like pirates, pleading poverty. Jungle Jim, who nursed us through the canal, was still on the bridge at midnight because the weather-was - Nasser's amateur canal getting savage. experts, who helped Jim precious little, had returned to bed hours before.

In the end it h¡rned out that I was the only correspondent on the convoy when Nasser lifted his five-month blockade. I

way bridge across the canal at El Ferda¡r,

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men and other traders who swarmed

the man like marmalade- jars and the staying power of a lion battled on by himself, past the tangled -wreckage of the only rail-

running hot,

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an eye on boarding parties of gully-gully

stations facing Israel.

Our skipper

Editor steps down

although the only extra chore I had heaped on to my dirty dishes was to keep

On the bridge our two new pilots

to arrest me for being a crtizen of a cotmtry with which Egypt had no diplomatic relations. Their keening ended in a compromise policeman, whose - a blueclad like a dredger's buckets, snores rattled was to sleep a round-theclock watch outside my cabin doorwhile we were in porL It was a brief respite. Two dawns later in foul weather and worse visibility, 10 ships weighed anchor. Not us though; the steering had broken. Imagine my rage. I Ìvas on to one of the best stories of my life yet had to watch any opposition men

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Health Corner

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The centre is open: Monday Friday, from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm.

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China reporting HE FCC has become

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visas. There appears to be

no particular reason why some are rejected and others are granted. unfortunately large number correspondentmembers. Chinahas The issue has been taken up with become very selective in who gets Xinhua (see below).

of

A NUMBER of correspondents for Hong Kong-based

foreign publications have applied for working visas to

in

Hong Kong Journalists'

Association to send a letter

European news organisa-

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an

tion who is not welcome

explanation. Xinhua has not

because of reports he did at the time of Tiananmen.

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The FCC joined with the

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istry's blacklist. The other involves a correspondent

who specialises in China trade, who did not report

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This is despite assurances from Xinhua that no measures would be taken against Hong Kong-based foreign correspondents who got into China on tourist visas for the Tiananmen anniversary.

We are nowwaiting for a

formal reply from Xinhua ûo determine the next stage of action. W'atch this space. I

HE FCC had hoped to

get Mr Ying-jeou Ma, chairman of Taiwan's Research, Development and Evaluation Commission of the Executive Yuan, to address the

Club at the end of August.

Unfortunately, despite our best

efforts, the

Immigration

Departrnent and others denied his visa application. The gov-

ernmenfs reasoning is obvious

(sensitivity of China), but I think in these times a change of attihrde is needed.

However, qur speaker on September 6 íé much less polit-

ically sensitive: British actor Derek Nimmo, in Hong Kong on one of his regular theatrical

visits, He will speak on that controversial topic, the role of comedy in theatre.

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FCC president, Paul Bayfield (secondfrom right), receives a goodwill gift, a bottle of Russian vodka, from the deputy chairman of the Novosti Press, Anatoly Bogomolov (second frorn lefr) . Seen with them are: Novosti technical director, Michail Belousov (far lefl and program manager and political correspondent, Stanislav Polzikov

Goodwill visit from Moscow ,t THREE-MAN Soviet delega- program manager Stanislav Polzikov /I tion from the Novosti Press and technical director Michail L legency, who were in Hong Belousov Mr Polzikov is also a political Kong on a private visit, attended

a

correspondent, covering most of the

cocktail party at the Club on August 1.

foreign trips of President Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Shevardnadze.

Iargely a social event, it was also

a

Soviet news respresentatives.

From what they said, glasnost is welcome at Novosti. Mind you, Novosti had a lot of catching up to do in the

The delegation comprised Novosti deputy chairman Anatoly Bogomolov

'old' days Tass news agency in comparison was a paragon of liberalism.

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Applause for

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HE full house sign went up early for the Sundowners, Australia's premier folk/rock band, who performed at the Club on July 19th.

Spearheaded by Mick Slocum on

accordian, the Sundowners soon had Club

members and guests rocking to the sounds of Mark Russell (electric violin, or

fiddle if you're a country and western fan), Tony Brown (guitar) and Andrew Swann (drums). Various guests sat in on the "Iagerphone".

Our thanks to Foster's Ambrose Tsui, marketing manager - Hong Kong, of

Australia's Carlton and United Breweries International Ltd., who made it possible for us to get the band.

As our picture-spread shows, a good not the least the time was had by all members of the band. Table manners were forgotten as one ofthe Sundowners beat out a tune on the spoons.

The jointwas jumpin'.

. . and they danced in their seats.

They danced on the floor , , .

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1990

A spoon is not just

a musical instrument.

Aussie hats were well and truly in fashion.

THECORRESPONDENT AUGUST 1990

13

CLUB NE\MS

THE ZOO

Dontt just gnpe . .

Do something T the Club's AGM on May

BY

NE\M MEMBERS

ARTHUÈ HACKER

Swedish-born Gerhard Joren is currently a self-employed photographer who spent a few years ï\rorkin g for Afronbladet

.

THAT,s McLUSH

and. Dagens Nyhèter 30,

speakers voiced opinions that the skills of non-board members could

going freelance.

To refresh you memory, there's a social

committee to plan the Club's parties, a publication's committee which oversees

\

f

Volunteers are needed not only to spread the workload, but to give new zest and expertise to the various projects.

There is no speaker's committee per

secured the Australian folk band, the Sun-

downers, through contacts and their dinner performance on July 19 goes down as one of the year's best evenings!)

Before members reach for their phones and fa¡res to complain about the omission of a food and beverage committee, please

read Mike Smith's letter to the president, Paul Bayfield, on this page and Paul's reply.

So don't just gripe at an AGM. If you can't serve, at least contact someone on

one of the committees and make your

f

views known.

Saul

Loclúart

press, particularly

LEITERS

the imprisonment or execution ofjournalists".

Active for freedom

Dear

AUSTRALIA

Mr

Bayfield, My

Best wishes for

a

willing to serve on such

a

member),

I

9916 OleanderAve

Dorothy Ryan (an elected member) would be willing to chair it.

dents Peter Seidlitz and Saul

Vienna, VA 22181, USA

M.EJ. Smith

l¡ckhart and to all members of the Board of Governors. I read your message in The Conæþondent.

While praising the FCC protest to the Hong Kong government "about its handling of the forced repatria-

tion of

Vietnamese refugees", I fully support the FCC's policy of being "actively involved in issues relating to freedom of the

the Club.

Nguyen-Tu

Dear Paul, You asked for

President Paul Bayfeld repliesr

suggestions as reported in the June issue of The Cor-

Thanks for writing, Mike. At the moment, specific food

resþondent.

and beverage matters are

to establish a Food and Wine sub-committee, with particular responsibility to make the upstairs restaurant one of the most popu-

handled by the professional committee as well as the Board. However, we arelooking at the possibility of estab lishing a separate F&B enti$.

Should we do so, you're the firstvolunteer.

lar (i.e. used and enjoyed)

in April

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Hong Kong as features editor.

to .IFR a

the Paris-based L' Exþress.

Seoul-born Iæe Young Keun

is a

correspondent

for

the

Korean daily, Dong-A llbo. He joined the newspaper immediately after he graduated from the Seoul National University in 1974. He came to Hong Kong lastAugust,

Bristol, but has been in Asia for a long time now He was the

editor of the Medical English Service in Kyoto, Japan. He also wrote, photographed and

edited the Kyoto

Visitor's

I it

Cait Murphy first worked

She then moved on to become

Christine L. King works for Bahrain-based Cafe Theatre Productions Ltd.Her responsibilities cover, mainl¡1 magazine work, news writing and theatre production. She came to Hong Kong nine years ago and worked initially as a sales exec-

utive for Cathay Pacific Airways. Before that she \ryas working for a recruitment agency in Reading, England,

writer and photographer for a variety of airline and hotel magazines in

director

post he still holds. He also \ryorks as a freelance

as

an assistant editor for Policy Reuiew in her native USA.

of Glæro engaged mainly in taking care of amagazine.

Guide. lnJuly 1988, he moved to Hong Kong to become the editor of Ercerþta Medica, a

Asia andAustralia.

J

Angeles Press Club,

THAII.AND

Korea Centre Bldg, 25 1.

Ka Taepyong-Ro, Chung-

14 rsB coRRESPoNDENTAUGUST 1990

229,/230 Strand, London WC2R 1BA Tel:01-353-6864

SINGAPORE

Rama IV Rd,

Wig and Pen Club,

Pittsburgh,

ing there for two years before leaving in March 1989 to join Asian WaII Street Journøl in

1989

Jean læclerc du Sablon was born in Montpellier, France.

He is now correspondent of

One First National, Centre Nebraska 68102, Omaha

300 Sixth Ave.,

the assistant city editor of the

Burlington Free Press, work-

Nígel John Hicks was born in

NY 10017 Omaha Press Club,2200

Pittsburgh Press Club,

to work in

Chu

months later.

2116, New York,

London Press Club & London EC4

1-Chome,

KOREA

ciation, 11 Carlton House Terrace, I-ondon SW1Y SAJ Tel: 01.93G0445 Scribes, 4 Carmelite St,,

NEW ZÐAI.qND

of Tokyo' 7-l

Club, #208 JangchoongDong-2-Ka, Chung-Ku,

14 Snaregade,

tional Press

National Press Club

Sadan Pubin Seoul

International Press

Nieuwspoort Interna-

2,

Marienplatz 22, Munich

Chiyoda-Ku, Toþo Tel: 211-3161

2600

Rugby Club,

Berlins E.V, Kurfursten-

Eglinton

research for the Chinese brokerage firm Chin Tung before

moving on

No.661

Thought for food

My suggestion is

as its Hong Kong correspondent, He came to Hong Kong

believe that

greater success in running

JAPAN

palau Connunity Club, pO.Box 598, Koroi palau

Stack

Kanagawa prefecture

Intemational Financing Reuiew

committee (as a non-elected

warmest congl'ahllations for your election to the presidency of the FCC. I beg you to extend them to vicepresi-

REPUBLICOFPALAU

Canberra National Press Club, 16 National Circuit, Barton, ACT

IIicks

Main-

Born in Essex, England, Michael l¿wes works for

restaurants in Hong Kong.

In this respect, I'd be

Reciprocal clubs The following clubs have reciprocal agreements with the FCC. ïhis means you can enjoy the facilities at these clubs, on cash basis, upon presentation of your FCC membership card.

of.

ichi. of Japan. He started working for Mainichi as a reporter

before being promoted to covering the much larger and more cosmopolitan Osaka area. In 1985, he \¡vas promoted again and moved to Toþo, becoming a staff writer before he was finally assigned to Hong Kong in May 1987,

and reproductions do not appear on the

interesting people coming to Hong Kong,

Kong correspondent

the

{

walls bythemselves),

would be appreciated. Contacts in the entertainment field are also helpful in arranging parties and speakers. (We

Jean

in 1980, first covering news in

c

tl¡

The Corresþondent,wdeo and health club committees, an accounts committee and even a wall committee (those photographs

the job of arranging speakers falls to

I(amimura

Koji Kamimura is a Hong

l

page of each issue of 7k¿ Corresþondent.

the- professional committee -- but any help in securing speakers, orjust news of

New

worked with Exþressen before

be utilised in running the Club. No argument there. A list of the main committees a¡rd their members appears on the contents

se

in

York City. He came to Hong Kong in 1987 where he first

Norwegian

Siv Nordrum

was born in Drobak and has been working for the Norwe-

New Yorker Thomas P. Eglinton is the managing

of

the Review Pub-

lishing Company, publishers of

the Far Eastern Economic Reuiew, Before coming to Hong Kong in August last year, he was based in Brussels

and working for lhe WaIl Street J o urn

al in Europe.

Since then he has worked as an architect for the MTR Corporation, and as head of the

properties division of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotel (Peninsula Group) before forming CINDIC and becoming the project director of the Shanghai Hilton.

Edward Kowalski is

a consul Consulate General. Prior to moving to Hong Kong, he was with the US State Department in Washington, D.C.

at the American

Malaysian Claire Dav¡n Morais was born in Trivandrum, India. She is now the Communications Operations Manager of IBM's Asia/South Pacifi c Area headquarters.

New Zealander Kenneth John Webber is the market evaluation manager of IBM 'W'orld Trade Asia Corporation. He is currentþ engaged

Flexi-time.

gian Broadcasting System (NRIÇ since 1984, She was NRK's political correspondent and night editor before she came to Hong Kong to assume the post of Far

Please write to:

East correspondent.

opment and management consultancy firm that he set up in 1984. Chu has been in

Dr Jacqueline Stack is the profes

he says, is a place he enjoys

American

and out of Hong Kong, arriving in 1951 before moving on to Taiwan and then Canada,

sional services mariager

and coming back

specialprojectsdirector.

PROOFREADER A fast expanding publishing company needs a part-time proofreader with a fair knowledge of print supervision.

Advertiser Box 999 c/o Printline IJd Unit B, 18th Floor, Harvard House 10S111Thomson Road 'Wanchai, Hong Kong

Canadian AIex Hsiong Chu 'tras born in Shanghai and is the principal of Alex Hsu and Associates, a strategy devel-

in

1978.

in computer market research for his Armonk, New York-

based company which he

joined 30 years ago. Before coming to Hong Kong, which,

thoroughly, he was in Wellington, New Zealand, as IBM's

TTIE CORRESPONDENTAUGUST 1990

r

15

David Thurston it¡.-â1r'

ESSAY

TTIE BOY WTTÏI

TTIEBELI.OWS...

HE photographs on display in the lounge area of the main bar for the

past few weeks were taken by David Thurston, deputy editor of the Sunday Morning Post Magazine.

As you can see from the photograph (righÐ, taken 32 years ago when he was 14,

Thurston has had a long association

with photography but it was not until he

*"

became a reporter on daily newspapers in

é#

the UK that he shelved the old Plaubel bellows his grandfather had passed on to him and bought something a little less vintage. He left writing completely in the late 1960s to work in a commercial and fashion studio under anAmerican photographer who had been an assistant to Vogue supremo

Irving Penn.

The early 1970s, the back-to-nature era found him turning his back on swinging

London and quietly farming sheep in Wales. But he continued to write and pho-

tograph, mostly rural subjects

"sheep

he are the best, they stick together,"

remembers.

A further spell on newspapers followed until, inl979, he went to China and spent 1981-82 travelling, mostly in the north, writing and photographing while officially enrolled at the Central Academy

of Fine Arts in Beijing. His

work

appeared, among other places, in the Euening Standard in l¡ndon, Harþers & n anrJ. Time Life B o oks.

From China he returned to Fleet Street for two years (the Street of Shame's last before splintering to new locations), this time on staff of the Standard before succumbing to the lure of Asia again.

For four years he was roving photojournalistwith Asia Magazine and took up his present job when the Post magazine was launched last autumn.

All the photographs were shot with a læica M4-P with a 35mm Summilux lens, on Kodachrome 64, except the boy smoker which was on Ektachrome 400. The archive shot, of unbelievable quality considering its age, was also on Kodachrome, and the camera was probably an Agfa Sillette. The F'CC prints were printed

by Peter Cho's Colour Workshop.

Qu

*i&yÈ!¡,d

ee

. . . ard the boy who likes a puff ¡?

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Lefi: Ashot taken from a passing train in the vastress of the Loess plains of northern China; aboue: Dtst seemed to have wiped away most sigยกs of colour in Lanzhorยก but at least tfrere were radishes; below: Iillle excites a driver with the works deparรปnent of Urumqi city council in Xnjiang . . . not even a performer putting on slits, or a foreigner taking photographs.

tt

A tidy past At the Burmese hill station of Maymyo, a retired gardener was taking his morning stroll. Things were much tidier when you people lthe British] were here, he told me, complaining that a Japanese bomb crater near his home had, to that day still not been filled in.

Still life

A roadside teahouse on a bleak plain of piercing icy wind' I sat opposite this Mongol girl, trying to rvarm myself with hot tea during a fuel stop on a long, very drafty bus ride. For a full 20 minutes she never moved a muscle.

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1990

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THEN

W

13 Korean War

:""åffii"""ïr'f"ä'J

fields in June, President Roh Tâe Woo deflected a news conference by asking all the questions.

Seated with the grey-haired

At lunch in a Seoul Korean restaurant, Dr læe Hong-Koo, special assistant to President Roh for political affairs, told the correspondents, "I was a high school student when the war started." Several other govern-

newsmen in Seoul's presidential mansion, the South Korea¡r

ment and military officials noted that they were school

leader asked:

boys when their visitors were covering the frontlines. Nine of the 13 correspondents now are in their 70s, four in their 60s.

Ma< Desfor to describe events around his Pulitzer Prize photograph of Korean refugees climbing across abridge to escape

Korean War correspondents visit the monument to 18 reporters killed in the Korean War. From læft: Ed Hymoff, Marvin Stone, John Rich, IæRoy Hansen and Al Kaff.

On the road from Seoul to Panmunjom, where the Korean truce was negotiated and signed - now a fourlane paved

highway lined with motels, restaurants, shops,

parks and lush rice

advancing communist toops.

Joe Flomm to relate how he arranged a US military flight from

fields Hansen "This

Japa¡r to Korea onJune 26,1950, one dayafter the war started.

Bill Shinn to explain how he obtained permission to file details

road

of the Inchon landing behind communist lines before the operation was announced by General MacArthu/s headquarters.

LeRoy

recalled, was a dusty

teers lost their

frst Korean battle,

Ed Hymoff and Shinn laid a wreath at a monument to frllen UN

foops, and each correspondent and wife burned incense at an altar.

When the group met the information minister, Choi Byung-yul, George Herman returned to the government

a

Buddhist scriptural printing block, a lacquered box inlaid

through parched and barren

with mother-of-pearl and

countryside."

stone axe

At Munsan-ni, just south of the truce line where soldiers from the north and south

loined during the war, World Monitor, a Christian Science Monitor televtsion news programme, broadcast the cor-

-

a

antiques he pur-

still stand guard, Rich

respondents' return from

the war's sta¡t, the South Kore an government invited the war reporters and their wives for a

and Desfor placed a white floral arrange-

ment on the monu-

taped report prepared by Herman, Bartie Rich, daughter of correspondent Rich, and a TV

week-long visit. A few years ago, two of the reporters sigaed chits in the Hong Kong

mentto 18correspon-

crewfromTbþo.

dents killed in Korea.

In addition to the correspondents named, the group included Marvin Stone, Bob Tuck-

On the 40th anniversary of

Foreign Correspondents' Club:

John Rich, formerþ NBC and

RCA, a¡rd Al Ikff, president of the Club 1974.75.

Near the Korean truce front, Max Desfor (lefr) and John Rich place a floral offering on the monument to 18 correspondents killed in the Korean War. Photo AI

Kaff

Whle a

bugler

sounded taps and

rifle

a

men fired a salute at

man, Jerry O'Leary, Bob

Chipyong-ni, where the Chinese People Volun-

Hecox and Mike Brown.

r

Æ Kaff

THE CORRESPONDENTAUGUST 1990

2I

TECHNOLO GY

Travelling?

Takeapic...

Rendezvous

THERE is no question that the FCC membership is an itinerant buncli.

So on your travels, ifyou happen to

in California laptop computers are becoming smaller and cheaper. And it can't be long before a variety of functions like fær, printers, scanners and voice mail fit into one pocket-size device.

APTOP computers may not provide all the answers for a roaming reporter but there is plenty of new technology on the way.

Club members who have wit-

of me tottering round the main bar in the small nessed the spectacle

hours may find it hard to believe that some mornings I start work at about

dawn. But it's true, I swear.

What allows me to do that is my Toshiba T-1000 portable computer which, for all its other faults, tolerates my presence in the study, dragon breath, stubble and all, at dawn. For that I can put up with its screen, which is barely visible in some lights, and the fact that it has to be plugged into the main electricity supply with an adapter if it is to be used for more than an hour or two.

It is not particularly light and it has only one disk drive which keeps me

using an old version of Wordstar for word processing which sends a shiver down the spine of most newspaper sys-

tems unless I run my copy through

another program. It cost me close to HK$10,000 two years ago and now sells

for

HK$5,000, indicating that there are plenty of better portables on the market. Who cares? It does the job of a glorified typewriter which can be carried between my home and office.

When I go abroad, I take a tacky A4sized Cambridge Z-88 computer with me to write drafts these days or simply use a hotel typewriter and fax.

If I

wanted something lighter,

more powerful and

with a

clearer

I might shell out the HK$18,000 needed for a Poquet PC. The Poquet is not much larger than a note book, weighs about a Pound and is IBM compatible. Its small screen has the same resolution or clarity as a laptop computer's but because it is denser it is easier to read. It runs on screen,

torch batteries for longer than it

would take to eat all the items on an FCC menu and its keyboard is big

22

enough to type on.

Because of its cost, its makers saY

the main market for the Poquet

will

PC

be among business people who

need access to computer files at meetings away from their offices. A similar claim is made for Hutchison Mobile Data's Connection Box, a device about the size and weight of a brick which has been put on the Hong Kong market only recentþ The Connection Box is atlached to a

standard laptop computer to provide radio frequency links to the telephone

network and on

to other

comPuters

worldwide. But because it makes use of the cellular radio network in Hong Kong it cannot be used worldwide Yet. - file-copyFor real'state the of art',

anywhere-in-the-world capabilities you need a device using the Interna-

tional Maritime Satellite Organisation's System C which extends the idea of global mobile communications beyond shipping into personal communications. STC International, has moved earlY into this market with its Mascot Nomad which packs a satellite

based in London,

antenna, telex and data transceiver, laptop computer and A4-sized printer into a suitcase.

Personally, I'm inclined to wait for

prices to drop and better technology to come my way. Silicon chip maker National Semiconductor expects a large

market in the mid-1990s for office systems which combine fax, printers, scanners and voice mail into a single device.

new generation of pocket-sized cordless telephones, that will eventually be used worldwide, is being read-

A

ied and compact disk systems capable of storing vast amounts of video, voice or data are already being sold.

It

cannot be long before all these

capabilities are built into something the size of the Poquet. If I'm '¡/rong, and that's all tosh, then I'11 still stick to myToshiba.

ry¿s, coRRESPoNDENT AUGUST leeo

I

Francis Pearce

cross paths with another FCC member, active (it doesn't matter if he or she is your lunchtime dice partner in

the Club three days a week) or

AGROUP of active and absentFCC members crossed paths in Pasadena in July while attending Cathay Pacific Airways' inaugural bash celebrating the establishment of the airline's new Hong Kong-Ins Angeles non-stop service.

More than 400 formally attired gqests gathered on the 200-acre grouÀds of the Huntingdon Library and Botanical Gardens to toast Hong Kong's premier airline.

Taking advantage of the occasion, a dozen FCCers held a mini reunion of their own.

absentee, take a pic (a colour print will do but slides are better), write a few words and send everything to The Coresþondent.

. . . ând we want t0 hear from absentee members t00.

HAVE you any "you news"? There are hundreds of former FCC members around thé world and we'd like

to hear from you. For example, when you meet another FCC absentee member, or an active member on the road, record the occasion (on film and in print) and share it with

**'* FCC doyenne Claire Hollingworth

took Beverþ Hills by storm during the trip.'When Baroness Dunn decided to join the VIP bus on the trip from the aþort to the elegant Regent of Beverþ Hills Hotel, Claire took'the Baroness'place in the waiting limousine. Accompanied by absent member Sarah Monks, the pair drove in luxurious comfort to the hotel where the Sunday Telegraþh's correspondent was formaþ greeted by the pipers of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force.

Writers gain

The Corresþondent. at the mini FCC summit in California. Back row (from lefr): Ken Ball, Saul l-ockhart, Cathay Pacifc's public relations executive, Claudia Swain, (wife of club member Jon), host David Bell, the Swire Group's and Cathay Pacific's public relations supremo, Kevin Sinclair and Jack Spaclmran who now lives in San Francisco.

Front rowz CLaire Hollingworth, Sarah Monks (in from the HKIDC office in NewYorþ, Ray Cranbourne and Ken Barrett Missingfrom the photo: Ian Howard (of the Hong Kong governmenfs Economic & Trade Office in New Yorþ and Dave DeVoss. (Íhe ex-Time correspondent in Hong Kong and Bangkok has joined ex-FCCers Jim Pringle (ex-Newsweek) and Rob Kiener (ex-Reailet¿s Digesf) in starting the East-West News Service.) Many thanks to South China Morning Post photographer, Martin Chan, for snapping the pix with Cranbourne's camera.

Ifs all smiles

outyou.

f

Saul Lockhart

COMING EVE}NS

Professional Ilncheon September 6, 1990:

Speaker: DerekNimmo

*

Ocûober 5, 1990:

Speaker: Derek Davies

from an editor's win at golf TÌIE Philippine Sports W'riters assocation received

Help us improve The Corresþon, denf s coverage. We can't do it with-

former FCC president a¡rd former editor-inchief of the Far Easttn Econonic Reoiew

*

a com-

puter this month from the world-famous beer producer, Carlsberg, thanks to sports editor lito Tacujan's skill at golf Tacujan, who is sports editor at the Manila-based daily

Philiþþine Súør, was the winner of this yeafs Carlsberg Media Golf Classic held at Canlubang on the outskirts of Manila in April. Twenty-eight FCC members had taken part in the challenge among others from the Philippines andThailand.

The annual event is open to membels of the Foreign Correspondents' Club and media people in the region. The sponsor ofthe event, Carlsberg, donates $10,000 towa¡ds the first prize a¡rd the winner has the option as to how that money is to be spent as well as name arì organisation to which the prize may be donaùed. Tacujan chose the Philip pine Sports Wriùers Association as the recipienl Lú:^t\e general manager of Cadsberg Brewery Hong

Kong, Flemming With-Seidelin, (second from right) is wn shaking hands with Tacujan atthepnze presentation cere mony in Manila. Seen with them are: Carlsbergis director of promotions in the Philippines, Finn Pedersen (far lefr) and direct^r of special events, EmyArcillo.

November2, 1990: Speaken Dr F W Christians,

,

Chairman of the supervisory Board, Deutsche BankAG

Seminars Ocûober 11, 1990:

Changes in Europe

and its implications

forAsia.

Sponsored by

CommerzbankAG

*

December4, 1990:

Asia's energs/ markets with specific emphasis on India The seminar is sponsored by Indosuez Asia and is by invitation.

THE CORRFSPONDENT AUGUST I99O

23

tIT WAS IN THE

CARDS

Mike Smith

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We know we have the best press club in the region. We reckon we have one of the best magazines too, But the blunt fact is that The Correspondent runs at a loss. Thanks to the efforts of the editor, Viswa Nathan, and his company Printline Ltd., an issue has been published every month for nearly three years.

(Old hands, and not so old hands, will recall Thd Correspondent's on-again/off-again publishing history,) Successive boards have been moderately successful in keeping the loss from haemorrhaging, but it still is a monthly drain on the finances the Club could do without. That's where you come in. lf you have control of or influence over an advertising budget, we urge you to consider The Correspondent. Your board feels, and we hope members agree, that The Correspondenf is a perfect vehicle in which to sell your corporate image, we even have a readership profile available to back up The 3,000 recipients are an affluent and well-travelled lot the aforementioned statement. Copies of the magazine circulate not only among members in Hong Kong, but to the top echelon of the Hong Kong media, plus selected people in business and government.

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Bill

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Clara's Heart star-ring Whoopi

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Parenthood starring Steve Martin Revenge of the Radioactive Re' porter starring David ScammelV Kathryn Bo

Skln Deep starring John Ritter Turner and Hooch starring Tom Hanks

management. (5) 10. Mom's hour alters the spread. (8)

11, Second class drops produce prodigy. (5) 14. Sound like crew scoffed. (3)

16. Mame's hedonists are caught within. (6) 17.

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Troubled s1y cur lost 100 and got right in liquid waste. (6)

mon/IæslieAnn W'arren

Young Einstein starring Yahoo Serious

DRAMA A Hazard of Hearts starring Diana Rigg/Edward Fox Blazæ starring Paul Newman Dad starring Jack læmmon/Ted Danson

Jacknife starring Robert De Niro,/

18. No one fails French, it's bad.(3)

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Shirley Maclaine

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Running on Empty starring River Phoenix

Stealing Heaven starring Kim Thomson/Derek de Lint

Wired starring Michael Chiklis/ J.T,Walsh

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Type of school in Hong Kong educating expatriate's family.(3)

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The Winner:

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5.The solution and winnels name will be published in The Corræþondeøf the following month.

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