The Correspondent, New Year 1991

Seeing in the X[ew Year. .

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F a

. . . and keeping the old one out

The Swire Group

COIüTEIITS THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS'

CLUB North Block, 2 Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong.

Telephone:521 1511 Fax 868 4092 President

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Paul Bayfield

First Vice-P¡esident -

Peter Seidlitz

Saul Lgckhart Second Vice-President Correspondent Membe¡ Governors

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John Andrews, Bob Davis, Peter Gwynne, Robin Moyer, Chris Peterson, Claudia Rosett, Michael Taylor, Steve Vines

Journalist Membe¡ Governors David Thurston, Stuart \ÀIolfendale.

Associate Member Governors Ken Ball, Wendy Hughes, Peter Humble, Dorothy Ryan.

Prolessional Committee: C ont nor : P aul BayÍield,

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Menbery Peter Seidlitz, Peter Humble, Saul Lockhart, Dorothy Ryan, Iüendy Hughes, Peter Gwynne, Stuart Wolfendale, Michael Taylor,

'{

Bob Davis

Membership Committee: Steve Vines, John Andrews

Social Cornmittee:

NEW Year revels at the FCC saw many members in the best of spirits. Were you there for the big blast on the pipes as 1990 came to a close? If so, the chances are that you will appear in our

four-page photo spread. If your face is not there, and you were, it may be out of editorial kindness that your antics are

not

recorded 16-19

Cozunor.' Dorothy Ryan, Menbas: MichaelTaylor

Video Committee: David Thurston, Membm: Dorothy Ryan, Ken Ball, Paul Balield Car¿æ¡¿r:

Publications Cbmm ittee: Cor¡ælø¡: Saul Lockhart, Me¡nbus:Paul Bayfield, Bob Davis, l{endy Hughes, David Thurston,

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Stuart Wolfendale, Ken Ball Food andBeverage Consultation Group:

¡yr¿H0NG

C¿r¡æiror: Chris Peterson,

JJdIKONG

Mmbers: Mike Smith, Saul Lockhart, Jo Mayfield, Margaret Bryan, Jim Shaw

From hotels and restaurants to shops and boutiques, Hong Kong is the service capital of Asia. And

the home of Cathay Pacific. So it's

no surprise that you'll discover an extraordinary dedication to service on every Cathay Pacific flight. After all, we

have

a rather lofty reputation to

up to. Even at 35,000 feet.

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CATHAYPACI}:lq) shaPe. Arrive in better

live

Club Manager: Heinz Grabner Club Steward: Jr¡lia Suen

rf,D qnnÉpffDHuT Dditor: Ron Knowles Advertising Manager:

THE first journalist hostage, Anthony Grey, has been at the forefront of a ne\¡/ organisa-

IN THE first of a new series of articles,

tion which is trying to taclde the problem.

ton Willgerodt takes a light-hearted look at bacþard kaders in the region 2O-2L

businessman and Associate member Leigh-

Mark Graham reports 15 STAFF of the FCC had a wonderful time at

their annual party - and we have the pictffes that prove it 23

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HKJA news

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OUR sporting colleagues on ¡}re South Ckirn Morning Post and Rewters met in a soccer clash on January 4. Who won, who scored and who starred (on and off the field of play) are all featured in our sports pages. Our men were there to

capture all the action in words and pictures 8-9

THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 1991 3

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CLUB NEWS

The worst

bow to the professionals, and, believe

job in the world

me, Heinz and the team are second to none. Only they can tell us when things are available and what the market price is for them. Rest assured we get the best

By Chris Peterson

possible deal in terms of quality and

world can be added one more. Right up there with public relations consultant for Saddam Hussein, architectwal advisor to Macau's Hotel Lisboa, editor of

be served up, it's a wonder Heinz

cost.

Our plan is to look at the resources \Me have and make the best use of them. We

Grabner and his first class team sr:rvive the way that they do.

I should make clear one thing from

T k e C orr e sþ ondent, Sísatt Wolf endale's tailor and the manager of the FCC, can be added the title of convenor of the FCC's Food and Beverage Consultative Group.

Paul Bayfield has a way with words, and his undeniable charm, plus an admittedly excessive intake of non-Perrier fluids on my part, led me to tackle the thorny question of Food and Beverage.

It's not an easy task. With a club of 1,500 members, all of whom have their

the start. The Food and Beverage Group - myself, Heinz, Margaret

will look at each and every individual request and see if it is feasible. If it is, you can be sure we will hy and work

TO THE list of the worst jobs in the

own views on what should or should not

Bryan, Sarl Lockhart, Jim Shaw, Mike Smith and Paul - are not in the busi-

ness of dictating what shor-rld be served,

how it should be served and how much we should pay to have it served.

The group's function is that of conduit

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a

welcoming ideas and sugges-

tions from all members and doing our best to see that all tastes are catered for.

But on things like pricing we have to

something out.

If it cannot be done, we will let the individual who made the request know that it can't be done, and we will make every effort to explain why.

There are obviously certain things we camot handle. It's no use complaining in a letter to the Food and Beverage Group that a specific dish was undercooked, or that the butter had a thumbprint in it. That sort of complaint should continue to be taken up straight away with the captain or Heinz there is not a lot that can be done about it some time after the fact.

Some time duringthe nextfewweeks you will be receiving a questionnaire aimed at getting your views on the food and beverage side of the club.

We hope it will produce some constructive suggestions. I would like to rmderline the fact that it will contain a section for specific suggestions from members.

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Please take the time to

fill it in. It's

CLUB I{EWS From the President

We're OK until 1997 ne of the self-imposed tasks of this year's board was to negotiate a new lease on our building, which was due in April 1992. am happy to amounce that during the course of negotiations over a proposed rent increase (substantial), we managed to gain a new lease that will take us through to April 7997. It will be up

I

to our new

masters

to

decide what

happens after that. The way things are

going, that may be sooner rather than later.

Anyway, the new lease is a load of everyone's mind. We can now get on with running the club with the confidence born of not having to face the prospect of being enveloping in a road widening scheme.

After years of invitations, the Governor Sir David Wilson, has agreed to speak at the FCC on February 20. This occasion will be the first opportunity the massed press has had to listen to and

question the governor since he arrived on these shores. Until now he has used brief public meetings with the press and private briefings to get his views across.

your chance to say exactly what you the whole

status.

Now, Mr Bayfield, about your retomatoes ... (Thnt's enarqh nnush! Ed).

In a letter to the FCC, Father Lancethariks Heinz and vice-president Peter Seidlitz, who worked hard at

lot

FCC manager Heinz Grabner (left).

all the sponsors who donated tickets for pnzes Lufthansa, Cathay Pacific, Alitalia, Swissair, Dragonair and Japan Air Lines.

The money, raised largely by

a

special FCC ftmd-raising evening on November 9, will be spent on Viet-

promoting the fund-raising event, plus

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namese refugees in Macau and menta-l-

In a final gesture, Father Lancelot

ly and physically handicapped children in China.

The sum was boosted by a further

wishes "one and all continued prosperity, happiness and love for the suffering

HK$1,000 from Miss Caroline Wu. 4 THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY

1991

human race, irrespective colour."

Instalment membership will be available only to journalists and correspondents whose monttrly earnings are less than two-and-a-half times the amount of the joining fee, that is those earning less than HK$7,500 a month. They will be able to pay in 10 equal instalments.

Members joining r.mder this scheme payments by means of chits until their joining fee is paid. In all other respects, instalment members will have the same rights and

will have to make all

responsibilities as other members of the club. These rig'hts wili include the right to entertain guests. The spouse of the member will also be entitled to use the club's facilities. However, voting rights will be granted only on the final payment of the joining fee.

Since the last column we have had a seminar on Asia's emerging markets; two wine and cheese nights (French and Italian); the usual New Year's eve blow-

out; Stephen Fitzgerald, the former Australian ambassador to Beijing spoke on Australia's role as an Asian country.

know?)to provide a direct service to the FCC. Needless to say we accepted the deal and hundreds of members are glad we did. So on the main bar screen the war has been the backdrop a¡d the centre stage every night since.

You will notice that we have a page of restaurant advertisements in this issue of Tke Cowesþondeni. The people at AsiaPacific Directories who produce the magazine went around to restaurants and bars in the neighbourhood of the FCC to get after-the-FCC type ads.

It is proving very successful. So help us to help The Corresþondent by patronising these establishments.

quest concerning the provision of grilled

of Catholic Relief Services of Macau, shows his delight after receiving two cheques to a total of HK$66,229 from

scheme.

. . . after years of invitations.

ing, came to an arrangement with our marager Heirz Grabner (Did they both

thrust of this group is its consultative

FATHER Lancelot Rodrigues, director

As a consequence, this lunch will aim at accommodating the maximum numbers of journalist and correspondent members.

The December meeting of the Board approved a plan to help lower-paid journalists to become members of the FCC through a joining fee instalment

The aflernoon before the Gulf war broke out CNN, with immaculate tim-

think.

I want to stress again -

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of creed or The usual New Year's eve blow-out.

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Paul

Balield

THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 1991 5

T-TTIE INNER CIRCLE

CLUB INEWS

From the manager

The places to eat within staggering or shouting distance of the FCC

HEINZ GRABNER FIVE DAYS after the gruelling New Year's night, the club held the traditional staff party with a Chinese dinner at the Round Dragon Restaurant at the

60th floor of the Hopewell centre in Wan Chai.

At the end of the dinner there was the usual raffle, with prizes for everyone contributed by suppliers, members and

\.Vr are stiìl there at 57-59 \\¡vntì}am 5t, Centrà1, H K , Tel 524 9rr21,52î 57lq and ¡lso ¿t our brand new place at C/F Connaught Conrmercial Buììding, 18. lv.irìchôi Road, H K, Tel tigl 8981,8q1 505-l

OPE\ AI-I, DAYS OF THE \\'EEK r()prr¡t!d Ll\ fnìid ßrù!1ùrie\ lnlcrnrtro¡rll

PLEÄSE PATRONISE THESE FCC SUPPORTERS

9*

LUNAR NEW YEAR OPERATIOIT TIMETABLE

DATE

betu'ecn7:00pm 10:00pm

POOL

BAR MAIN BAR

Thur.Feb.14 Closed at 16:00 Fri. Feb.15 Closed 12:00 Sat. Feb.16 - 14:00 12:00 Sun. Feb.17 - 14:00 Normal Mon. Feb.18

16:00 - 24:00 24:00 - 24:00 -

Closed at 12:00 72:00 12:00

,%o¿o

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now, catcrs for you either at home or for your btrsiness lunches in your office, as well for your boat partics, and, of

RESTAURANTS Closed Closed Closed Closed

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as

course. with its pianr> ambiance at 8-13, Wo On Lane, lsr/F- , Central

Buen Vino T,lprsS BAR

operation

contractors.

The first prize, two return tickets to Bangkok from Ronnie Ling, was won by our housekeeper, Wendy Wong.

The second pnze, aVCR from Unity Engineering (kitchen contractors), was won by bar manager Sammy Cheung; third prize, a Cannon camera from T.

Young (air conditioning contractors), went to barmen Paul Chan.

Sparking:

plan to introduce at the Veranda Grill food theme evenings such as Indonesian, Thai, pasta and Mexican.

WINE AND CHEESE EVENING: This month's Italian tasting was

an-

other success and the following wines were chosen for February wines of the month:

IL GREGIO-SPUMANTE

BRUT-

COLLOVANI. Thebase forthiswine is almost exclusively Chardonnay. A lively sparkling wine with brilliant and greenish reflection and a fragrant fruity bouquet.

normal pnce $I27, members price $115.

1601 REFOSCO-GRAVE FRIULI-COLLAVINI

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DEL

normal price

1606 MERLOT D.O.C. COLLIOCONTE ATTEMS normal price

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1604 VINO NOBILE

REFOSCO-GRAVE DEL FRIULICOLLAVINI. Refosco is the name of the grape variety which produces a full bodied ruby red tannic wine which becomes smoother with bottle age. The use of carbonic maceration in the production process has resulted in more fruity flavors.

VINO NOBILE DI MONTEPULCIANO-AVIGNONESI. This wine

DI

MON-

j¡i

Sparkling: GRIGIO SPUMANTE BRUT-COLLAVINI - normal price $115, members price $102.

*

Free detvery: Hong

Kong

Island/I(owloon peninsula

* Orders accepted by mail or fax. No

GAVI-LA SCOLCA. This wine

is

produced in a small area oI southeast Piedmont from the Cortese grape. One of Italy's most fashionable whites, it is noted for acute dqmess and fresh flinty acidity. La scolca is most famous for its special cuvee-GAVI DE GAVI. 6 THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 1991

Àusthnu, The Oceans of Asia, The Treasures of Siam, Românce of the Rai, A Taste of Vietn¿m, Àsiarì Å

',t!if, llÏi¡]

:1r ,

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ã

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to t øme but aJfeu ..,

'leat, Spices at Pacific Place, The Mall-LGl, one Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Hong Kong For reservation or further information, pleas€ telephon e ts at 845 4798,

COCKTAIL.' O¡/ THE BEACH IN HONG KONG

A,¡*r',

* The cost of wines will be debited to

Kitchen, our specialities are nostalgia and tradition, served fresh every day.

your club statement

telephone orders please.

* Minimum order

of 12 assorted

The Beach

Hut

bottles ,,LIVE

and

CIIARDONNAY.GRAVE DEL

FRIULI COLLAVINI

coconut, lemon grass, blue ginger, cardamom and tamarind are blended to create the classic dishes of Asia.

IIIT IL

garnet in color with a dry full somewhat tannic flavor. It has great finesse.

The followingwines are available for free home delivery:

climate, in which this grape flourishes.

A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY

$132.

CHARDONNAY-GRAVE DEL FRIULI-COLLAVINI. This famous grape

1619

Tel. 8771100 19.27 WYNDHAM STREET CENTRAL

Spices at Pacific Place is creating a series of special buffet dinners each month to explore the

normal price $145, members price

* Allow 4 working days for delivery.

White:

FOR

TEPULCIANO-AVIGNONE SI

and grape content, being deep ruby

Adriatic air, produces a perfect micro

132 The MaII Pacific Place 88 OJrser¡5way Hong Kong Tel: 86-800-86

$85, members price $75.

White:

ties. The mingling of Alpine

NIGHTCTUB

Red:

$125, members price $113.

resembles the best chianti in character

variety is now being produced in northeast province of Italy known as Friuli Venecia Giulia and has recently been granted D.O.C. status by the authori-

Fine ltalían Food

SERVA-LUNGAROT"II

FONDUE EVENING: We started at just the right time when it finally became cool, and the first two evenings were a full house.

After the end of the cold season we

31 WYNDIa,M STREET TEL: 8775472

A revised snack menu and a daily roast will be served in the Main Bar when it is open.

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LUNCHEON SPEAKERS

normal price

$85, members price $75.

Feb. 7, George Melly, jazz musican-

price $79.

nor.

1620 GAVI-LA SCOLCA - normal price $124, members price $110.

162I TORRE DI GIANO-RI-

Ambassador to Burma.

1614 SOAVE CLASSICO-PIEROPAN - normal price $90, members

Feb. 20,His Excellency The Gove-

Feb. 27,Burton Levin, former US General Consul of Hong Kong and

MUSIC THURSDAYS''

l-l

rVyndham Street, Central. Telephone: 526 5293

AGUILAR STREET TEL: 8773107

If you orDn or rna.nnrge a, restnturatnt or nite spot ne6rr tbe FCC This is YOUR invitation to join the .INNÆR CIRCLE Ring Ms Irrgrid Gregory on 577 9331 (You'll be su.rþr'lsed øt bou.t little it costs)

T-THIS SPORTING LIFE

THIS SPORTII\G LIFE

t

f

Steve Proctor makes a determined challenge to cut off a pass to Reuters lively winger Cheng Chi Kong

(left); Reuters Martin Howell sends his man the wrong way with a deft piece of footwork (above); Post team manager Nick Thompson exhorts his team to greater efforts at half-time, and at least one of them appears to be paying attention. "It's all done with fear," he confesses.

Delight for the Post side as they score.

Morning Post 3, Reuters

1

IN a match of surprisingly high sports desk, playing his first game quality soccer, the relentless for the Post, added the other two pressure of the talented South goals.

Chinn Msrning Post team proved too much for the inventive, shortpassing skills of the Reuters squad at the Causeway Bay Sportsgror.rnd

on January 4.

Urged on by a screaming crowd of at least seven, the Post won 3-1, despite the absence of their star left-back, Phil "Cruncher" Craw-

ley, on amual leave

in chilly

Britain.

The Post owed much of their success to foreþ news sub-editor Dave Foad, who covered magnificently in defence and broke up many menacing Reuters attacks with well-timed tackles. Foad, who even found time to forage forward and snatch a goal, was voted "Man of the Match" by the Post team.

Agony for Post defender Barry Grindrod as he limps off with a leg injury, assisted by team-mate Tony Allison.

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1991

Des McGahan, managing director of Prism, the sports public relations company, and Dave Candler, a recent recruit to the Post's

Rsuters'scorer, l,au Fung, was only one of several impressive per-

formers. Their courageous goalkeeper, Brad Htnt, defenders Ko Ka Cheung, A. D. Khan and füoff Cornford, plus busy mid-field man Dan Thomas and the tireless

fürry

Marron all caught the eye, while

tricþ

winger Cheng Chi Kong was always a threat up front.

Post team manager Nick

Thompson, taking time off from his business desk duties, made several shrewd substitutions in the second half and declared himself "over the moon with the result.

"We continue our march to soccer glory with a match against Albert Cheng's CapitzJ fümmunications early next month," he said.

"To say I'm confidentwould be the understatement of the year and it's only January 4."

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THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY

1991

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PRISONER AT THE BAR

here fell out of the briefcase of Conæþondezl editor Ron

Widow's words provide a fitting epitaph NO ONE, except an enthusiast for inverteb-

Knowles after he collected his mail from the FCC re-

ing of the Press Council in

Blackmail thwarted THE PHOTOGRAPH and blackmail note reproduced

rates,

Britain.

cently.

Prisoner has been unable to ascerlain whether or not Knowles parted with the $5,000 in a bid to save his

Nonetheless, this organisation, which has conspired

by truclding to editors and proprietors to drag press standards ever lower, re-

marriage. However, this page is about exposure - not protection - and Prisoner has discovered

quires an epitaph.

My own suggestion would

that this

compromising picture was taken on a junk off Causeway Bay on the stroke of midnight on Dec-

be the words of a woman widowed by the Falklands War. Her husband was one of two soldiers in that campaign to be awarded the Victoria Cross. She was a

ember 31. The other New Year reveller is none other

than the acerbic

person of some

Sauth

Chim Moming Posf columnist Nuri Vitachi, showing

the sweeter side of

will mourn the pass-

dþity

and

declined to have her grief spread across the blats.

Eastern allure TWO stalwart FCC members, ad-man

Tony Craig and writer Mike Newlands, have got together and launched a monthlynewsletter aimed at pointing up opportunities for Asian-based com-

panies in Eastern Europe. The first edition of Eastern Euroþean Oþþortuni/iæ contains 20 pages of tightþwritten copy ranging across news, country and company profiles, currencies and trade

financing for Eastern Europe. Five pages of the newsletter are given over

to specific trade and investment proposals targetted at Asian investors from about 70 companies in Eastern

would not bother to re-seal the en-

His byline has graced a wide range of

velope.

and Central Europe.

Newlands did not have it all his own

Craig came to Hong Kong in 1980 and, apart from frightening the hell out

way when getting up the information.

He told I-a.i See that he "was getting a huge volume of mail ffrom Eastern European countries] but every single piece has been opened before it gets to me." Often the mail inspector, who Newlands claims is Hong Kongbased,

of snooker players in the basement bar, has spent the ensuing years as media

publications in Hong.Kong since 1982.

The newsletterdoes not come cheap, but in the world of business and joint ventures, one single deal introduced by the publication could make the annual subscription of US$600look like beer money.

You can get more information about the publication by calling 981-9188 or

group head and media director for Kenyon & Eckhart and McCann Erickson respectively. Newlands has worked in the Gulf and Africa on the business side of various newspapers.

fax9BI.4234.

his

nature to our obviously receptive editor.

Further inquiries have that the demand with menaces was ascerbained

ceedings should be taken

made by David Fox, newsdesk hitman at the Suniny

by the club's authorities

Post.

bers before

Surely, disciplinary pro-

against these tlree memphotographs

taken later on New Year's

THE ZOO

Eve come into the public domain and bring embarrassment on all of us. If the FCC doesn't act, the ICAC might be tempted to.

BYARTHUR HACKÉR c

Bveeer oçp ! çee¡x!

YOU LIBIÞINOUS

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According to Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie in their immensely readable history of Tke Sun, Stick It Uþ Yaur Punter, the paper manufactured an interview with the widow and splashed its disgusting lies as an

exclusive. Someone subsequently filed a complaint with the Press Council, which inevitably upheld it.

A year or two after this shameful episode the widow was interviewed a journalist working for a women's magazine and was asked why she had not laid

by

the complaint herself.

She asked

if the editor of

Thp Sun had been sacked.

The answer, of course, was

øìr,

that he had not. Had the reporter who wrote the offensive garbage been sacked? Once again the answer was No.

Y 10 THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 1991

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"There you are, then," replied the widow.

THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 1991 11

PEOPLE

PEOPLE

Honeymoon

Getting to gnps with Operation Bear

co-incidence

by Kevin Sinclair WE AI,L know that Japanese newlyweds have a penchant for honeymooning en masse, but jourrralists???

So

it

hen you are down on your luck, it's good to have friends.

was with surprise that honey-

When they are friends like

mooner David Thurston ran across FCC member Richard Wagner, also

Graham Hornel, Saul Lockhart, Ashley Ford and Alan Boyd, you are fortunate

honeymooning (and teaching the French

indeed.

the rules of softball) at Club Med in

On both sides of the Pacific Ocean they know so well, the four have been

Mauritius.

behind many of the moves to get Operation Bear off the ground.

Richard, who had ended a three-year tour in Hong Kong just over ayear ago to cover Africa for CBS from Johannesburg, married long-time friend Donna Lewis, a former CBS producer last

Object of this drive is to bring companionship, thoughts and attention to Ted Dunfee, the once-formidable and imposing figure who strode through the

March and had just found time for a break before taking up a new assign-

backblocks of Southeast Asia and is now a stricken figure þing in a Van-

ment.

couver hospital bed.

Money is needed, too, to help the ail-

ing "Big Bear" back on his feet. But

OBITUARY

your friend, Amy? COULD that be our ex-president Hugh Van Es \Mith his arm around the celebrated Amy Yip. For those of you who have been living in a cave in the New Territories, or are not quite up to date with Hong Kong gossip, actress Yip is

purported to be the territory's most ample thespian.

The occasion was the wedding party

of the brother of senior staff member Gilbert "Tiger" Cheng, held at the Convention Centre. Tiger's brother Kent is a comedy actor, writer and director of note - hence among the

1,000 or so guests was a liberal sprinkling of stars, superstars, megastars and

friendship is needed as much as cash.

News people are supposed to be a cynical, hardbitten bunch, But the concern and care the four men, a Briton, American, New Zealander and Austra-

Forrest C. Edwards FORREST (Woody) Edwards, 76, an AP reporter for nearly 40 years and a former President of the FCC, died in his San Francisco apartment on January 17, eight days after he donated a poignmemento from the Korean War to Overseas Press Club in New York.

Edwards served two terms as FCC President 1967 and 7970-7I. He died

after

a long

struggle against heart

disease. His widow, the former Louise Bradley, found him in bed around 9

a.m., a magazine in his hand and his reading light on.

"Forrest had been watching the outbreak of the Gulf War on television the night before," she said.

Edwards coveréd both the Korean

Vietnam wars. Born in North he joined AP :n'l9+2, working

in Kansas City, Santa Fe and San Franisco before becoming a rr¡¡ar coffein Korea. After Korea, he was

mtrlti-megastars.

in Hong Kong to

Also in admiring attendance were Heinz, Josephine and Heinrich Grab-

based

ner, Fred Shokking and Paul and Kate Ba14ie1d ... and, of course, at least two tables of current and former FCC staff.

Viebmm, he worked in AP bureaus in Honolulu and'Los Angeles before retiring.

12 THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 1991

coordinate

rage of the Viebram conflict.

After

lian, have shown for the giant Canadian is touching.

Hornel, communications chief for the

Pacific Asia Travel Association headquarters in San Francisco, Lockhart, at the TDC publications section in Hongkong, Ford at his newspaper in Vancouver and Boyd, News Ltd's man

in

Thailand, have been involved in

trying to aid Dunfee get over the appalling effects of the near-fatal disease.

Without Boyd getting him into hospital in Bangkok, Dunfee probably

wouldn't be alive. Lockhart helped

launch the cash-raising drive needed to defray some of the horrific medical and aviation expenses of Ted and his family.

Now Hornel is "kicking butt" all around the Pacific Rim to remind his thousands of contacts that Dunfee lays ill, almost speechless, frustrated, bored and enraged with his condition in a hospital bed as he fights to get back on his sizeable feet.

Hornel admits he was shocked when he walked into the hospital and saw Dunfee. The last time the two met, the imposing figrre of the giant amiable

Graham Hornel - Dr G, as he is known to travel-press regulars one of the team keeping the ball rolling lor Operation l3ear.

Canuck was smiling over a beer in a Bangkok bar.

"It obviously is difficult not to be affected by the sight of one who quite literally was a giant of a man in size, character, wit and affection lying flat on his back and partially immobilised in a a hospital bed, hooked up to an array of tubes and machines," Hornel writes in a round robin to Lockhart a¡rd other friends.

A

tracheotomy left Du¡Jee speechless, but he is now is striving to learn how to talk and slowly regaining his powers of speech. His shoulders and legs are still paralysed but he fights to try to sit up. Frustration has made him grind his teeth in rage, causing dentists to fit plastic mouthguards.

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quaify him for a bed in a renowned Vancouver rehabilitation hospital.

Once Big Bear can read, talk a bit better and sit up, Hornel and the rest plan to launch "Operation Bear." This will be a communications exercise aimed at keeping Dunfee in touch with a world which, for the past seven months, has been lost in a coma shrouded in blackness and agony.

Cards, letters, faxes, personal calls are all part of this, Hornel says. They help jog Dunfee's memory with past recollections of more pleasant times.

wil

Ted's hospital phone number

is

l-60+-228T121 and the address is Room 151, Ward 1C, University Hospital, Westbrook Hall, Valcouver, BC, V6T

Despite these indþities, Dunfee battles on towards a cure in the care of a batlery of therapists.

"Understandably, this fmstrates the Christ out of the big guy, " Hornel writes of the now-slim 1601b-Dunfee, who once tipped the scales at 300lbs.

Now Ted is making progress, the next step is to get him well enough to

285, Canada.

"Give him a call, drop him a line or send a tape that his parents can play

him," Hornell urges.

With a battery of friends that have r.rnited to help Dunfee, hopeftrlly it will not be too many years before that lumberjack figure is once more on the Asian news roads.

THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 1991 13

PEOPLE

They must not be forgotten

TÏrfurk about it!

F.C.C. members represent one of the highest earning,

per-æpita, consumer spending goups in Hong Kong.

F.C.C. members are generaþ decision makers who decide

\4/HAT to buy for their companies.

THE CORRESPONDENT is a controlled circulation publication, reaching all members plus their families.

Complimentary copies are mailed to other key figures in the city.

Bonus overseas mailing of 900 copies.

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Tse-Tung's fanatical Red C'unrds

for more than two years.

The ex-Reuters correspondent, now 52, achieved the unasked-for distinction of becoming the first modern-day political hostage in 7967, when he was seized by lhe Red Gwnrds and held under house arrest for 777 days. He was subjected to regular diatribes, incessant doses of communist dogma and, in one sickeningly grotesque incident, forced to watch as his pet cat was strangled.

Grey held on psychologically throughout the ment¿l torture, refusing to react to his jailers' taunts. But the horror of incarceration has never been fully erased from his memory; when Hostage Action Worldwide was formed recently, he was a natural to take the chairman's role and act as agitator for fr-mds.

The money-raising side of the operation has been a quali-

success. After badgering corporate outfits and appealing to individuals, the group has raised around HK$150,000 which will be used to increase awareness of the plight of hostages.

Two of the more prominent people being held against their will at the time of writing are television reporter John McCarthy and Associated Press journalist Terry Anderson, both locked up in Beirut hell-holes.

But it's not necessary to be a front{ine war correspondent to run the risk of becoming a hostage, as FCC members Stephan Reisner and Greg Davis found out recentþ. They were on a flight from Bangkok to Rangoon when their plane was hijacked; in that instance, the duo were released u¡harmed and used the incident to good effect with an authentic "we-were-there" scoop.

Grey's organisation is pitched at helping the long-term hostages, many of them forgotten by the world at large, by publicising their cases, gathering independent information on their plight and lobbying governments and international

fied

organisations.

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was invited to lend her support, but could not summon up the courtesy to reply. Her government was heavily criticised by

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The more prominent members have been using their clout to tell the world about Hostage Action through magazíne articles, newspaper feahlres and radio broadcasts. But money is still a major stumbling block only Reuters and a Firnncinl Times aÍÍiliate trust fund have so far coughed up significant amounts of corporate cash.

"We hope donations w'ill grow," says Grey. "It's very

- we accept Hong Kong dolla¡s if any corporate outfit there wants to contribute.

Extraordinary generosity has been shown to date by many individual supporters who have enrolled in Hostage Action - both in monetary terms and the time and energy they have spent on trying to help."

Every little bit helps, as Grey himself discovered when he was finally released from China. The journalist was much an international organisition

astonished to learn of the efforts made on his behalf; he was

equally humbled when letters poured in from around the world congratulating him on his fortitude. a room for two years wondering whether and wondering if anything is being done, I anybody cares, feel there is an extreme need for someone doing something and trying something," he says.

"Being a hostage made me much more deeply aware of gave me life's profundities. It made me more reflective a greater awareness of other dimensions."

"Having sat in

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The writer eventually went on to record his Beijing experiences inA Hostage in Peking,later turning to blockbuster novels such as Saigon, tracing the history of 20th century Viehram, and Peking, about the Long March. His latest, Th¿ Bangkok Seaet, ís precursor to a major book about Japan.

The novelist has spoken at the FCC and has pledged to make himself available again, if commitments bring him to this part of the world.

Hostage Action Worldwide, which is a non-political

charity, is at the Charlton Foundation, 28 Nottingham Place, London W1M 3FD.

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THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 1991 15

NEW YEAR'S EVE

Pipers and pirates IN THE long tradition of the FCC, a Gurkha piped in the NewYear amid the nors., balloons and streamers in the Dining Room. The piper then went down to the Main Bar to launch the carousing that lasted until dawn - and beyond.

Heinz Grabner and his staff served up a fine feast for those lucky enough to get a table. For some tables there were lengthy wann-ups with rattles, whistles and steamers - but they still had plenty left for the midnight hour.

As usual the elib and flow of members and their guests coming from other parties went on through the night and morning. When the crowd from the Post turned up resplendent in pirate garb the flow t¡ecame a gusher as they pillaged then way from bar to the dance floor.

Festivities slumped to a halt at about 6.3O am, with the tired and emotional wandered off into the sunrise seeking the ever elusive taxi.

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A PEDDLER'S JOURNAL

PEOPLE

See

what the boys in the backyard can do

Surprise party at a surprise party So who shows up for Bob "Captain

Midnight" Saunders surprise birthday party? None other than the

by Leighton A Willgerodt

S

They import our products

infamous Les Iæston and his lovely wife Kit, who jetted infrom the UK specially for the occasion.

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cellulosebased water soluble polymers in five to ten-ton lots and resell them, usually a bag or two at a time, to their own end-

And where did they end up that night? At the FCC dice

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In some cases they may even break down the bags into more convenient five to ten-kilo packages. users.

yard they could be making paint, cough

dressed in an open-necked shirt, shorts and rubber sandals. Except for a huge gold ring and one three-inch fingernail,

entrance, thus presenting no small inconvenience to his visitors by forcing them to occupy part of the sidewalk. He has htmdreds of them. Manycome from distant provinces.

He is always dressed in native attire and speaks no English. He keeps a copy of the Koran next to him on the table.

syrup, stomach medicine, furniture lacquers, noodles, soft drinks, or just about anything else. Typically they are ex-employees of one of the larger companies, and, having learned the technology, have now struck out on their own.

In any case, somehow, somewhere, they get hold of a formulation and go into business.

They sell their product under their own label or one copied from someone else. With no overheads, cutting corners on qualty and operating on the thinnest of margins, they easily undercut the more reputable manufacturers and find a market for their goods in the sub-strata of the consuming public in their villages or sr.lrrounding districts.

The dealers who seryice their raw material needs are also, with few exceptions, overseas Chinese. They are not always easy to find.

They work out of small offices or shops tucked away in ramshackle buildings in narrow lanes in cities like Bangkok, Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur, or in provincial towns. They lack formal education, rarely speak English, yet are almost invariably very rich. Almost to a

he could be taken for one of the workmen lounging out at the front. He sports a long tuft of hair growing from a mole on his chin.

His office is dominated by a massive teak desk and an ancient, bulky airconditioner, which protrudes into the room, rattling noisily and blocking the only window. A smouldering joss stick placed in front of a Buddhist altæ attached high on a wall emits a natro'¡r plume of smoke, füing the room with the faint aroma of incense. On the other wall are two bright red plaques bearing large black Chinese characters which express some kind of moral precepts probably based on the teaching of Confucius. Under one of them is a Sumi-

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tomo calendar.

The bacþard manufacturers are not

limited to the world of the overseas Chinese. They also flourish on the sub-

continent.

We have a customer in Karachi who is a dealer in chemicals for the pot and paddle pharmaceutical and food-proces-

man, they have a white Mercedes

sing industries. He runs his business from a small shop in the bazaar, The front of the shop opens on to the lane.

hidden in a garage nearby.

The typical dealer can be found sit-

Every day he sits at the entrance behind a small table to receive his customers.

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1991

The interior of the shop is dark and jammed with piles of cartons, small boxes and bottles of samples. Stacked against the walls are bags of chemicals and foodstuffs, of them broken.

The lane is densely packed by pedestrians, donkey carts and the occasional camel. There are many such shops in thebazaar, but our particular customer imports millions of dollars a year worth of chemicals from multinational companies based in Europe, Japan and the United States. He is the largest in his field and we were lucþ to have found

nily

him.

My

colleagues in the United States never cease to be amazed that there is what could almost be called an over-thecourter market for some of our more

sophisticated specialty chemicals in Asia.

Leightnn Willgerodt, an

Associnte

Member of tke FCC, is a sales executiae with a US ntultfuationnl ch¿miml cantþany.

clock coverage of the war against

Phntos by Hugh Van Es

ed, Heinz got in touch with FCC member Richard Hylen, managing director of Turner Broadcasting Far East Ltd., and secured his agreement to instal the CNN satellite feed via microwave link into the club's large screen in the Main Bar. The costs of installingthe hardware were covered by the company.

The facility was widely appreciated by members, and at one stage more than 100 of them were watching the CNN reports.

The service was provided as a temporary demonstration, but there is a possibility the club will take the

For the most part they are overseas Chinese. Many of them are operating It is probably because of lack of space that he has positioned his table at the

opportunity to see CNN's round-theIraq.

As the countdown to war advanc-

market share which ca¡not be ignored.

ting in his office behind his shop. He usually lives above the shop. He is

SMART thinking by club manager Heinz Grabner gave members the

tables, of course.

Bacþard manufacturers exist in almost every country in Asia. They are surprisingly numerous and occupy a

nothing more than family enterprises.

With a "pot and paddle" in the back-

An excellent contribution to the effort

service once the company gets government approval for its licence application to serve clubs.

The fascinated film maker A FEW weeks before Christmas

a high quality cocktail bash took place in the Albert Room of the FCC. The walls bellowed to the pleasantþ unfamiliar tones of the Quebecois Montrealer.

Jules Nadeau and his Via Orient production team were in town to scout out the making of a film.

Nadeau is a journalist and author, and

a

sinologist since he was snared by

Chinese affairs during his student days taking a political science course at Mon-

treal's McGill University.

His nattiþ titled

Twenty Million in Taiuan is an intimate and often amusing account of life in Taipei rvith his Hong Kong wife and daughters. It is not readily available in Ckircse Madp

bookshops there.

His most recent book, Hong Kong

1997 In the Mouth of the Red Dragon, is the-basis of a film documentary he plans to produce by September. Called Hong Kong and Macau, it will feature the background and current realities facingthe two colonies as they approach 1997, as well as existing Chinatowns in Europe and North America.

U/iththe direction of Berbrand Morin, who has organised shoots everywhere from the Ca¡radian Arctic to Togo, the production structure allows for an hour on Hong Kong.

The transfer of power to China fascinates Nadeau as much as it terrifies a lot of other people. It is unique in modern times, he says. "History has rarely been so minutely programmed in advance."

It must be the French in him, because

Macau is fascinating Nadeau just

as

deeply. He sees a three-tier power structure there - the official Portuguese, the pro-Beijing establishment and the gambling syndicate. "What kind of marriage will this Latin Macau offer its Marxist partner?" he wonders.

His schedule says that he will have had 25 shooting days to settle that and a lot else over January and February.

Since arrangements like these. are notoriously over-optimistic, we might hope to have the personable and generous Jules around the bar a little longer, listening (at a price) to a great deal of advice about "what it's really like these days" and what's really going to hap-

pen". God help him.

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THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY \991

2I

--r---WOLFENDALE AT LARGE found Bufi Okuley on New Year's Day sitting in the Main Bar, staring out of the window with a look that could have overturned passing traffic.

He was giving his memories of the night before a thorough ment¿l acid bath.

"So at eight o'clock those of us who

didn't have five hundred bucks and a penguin suit got thrown out of here.

They took me down to the Pool Bar which was being used as a store room.

Bowled over by stampede of penguins

Christ, you needed infra red sight to even get down the stairs! Then they brought me a tunafish sa¡rdwich. So, I am sitting there in the dark eating a damned tunafish sa¡rdwich! " New Year's Eves take some people badly. I am another one of them. On the

same night last year, I arrived, as writers are supposed to, dishevelled

and odorous from Bangkok I headed, forgetfully, for the Club, imagining myself at the bar in an unshaven sprawl round a pint of ale and swapping travellers' tales with anyone else who might happen to have a Morning Star bag.

In the lobby I hit a wall of penguins.

It was as though an orchestra had just

been released from the pit. Among them were women in numbers in dresses showing cleavages you cor-rld drop a bunch of keys down. It was The Great Gatsby with Carlsberg. It was the New Year's Eve thrash and Treasurer Dorotþ Ryan would be singing all the way to the bankwhen the usurers cotild next be bothered to open it.

I turned round, went down the hill and joined a pro-democracy rally in Chater Gardens. Singing the Choral

movement of Beethoven's Ninthin Cantonese, I stood there fetid in the sort of cold they were chilling the champagne to up the hill. By the time I caught the Ferry, my shivering was out of control.

Back home with my luggage dropped at the door I crawled into bed to stay there for three days.

This year, pleading worldwide reces-

sion and the Gulf Crisis, I stayed in Hong Kong and at home. Not feeling the slightest bit tired - except of Paul MaCartney's world tour orr the televi-

I conspicuously went to bed at sion, 11:30, screwed my eyes tight shut and lashed those sheep across my mind's eye with the speed of whippets.

I slept finally at 2am, tying hard not

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principled exclusion of myself. I did not miss much as it turned out; only, I was told later, a celebration of broken glass and baseball bats in one of the village bars where the local nff-raÍL set about the foreign nff-raÍL. That is the trouble with New Year. Its

pure artificiality, its total lack of religious superstition or mythology encourages pagan excesses to justify it. The proletariat drink until they come to

blows or shk into the maudlin sentimentality of Auld Lange S1me, whatever that mears. Jerks with "4" levels and above get Henryish.

I have an acquaintance so seriously disturbed as to be Henryish throughout the entire year. With a smile kept up by paper clips he goes around all the time actually saying "Isn't Life fun!?"

The trouble with this sort of Henryism is that it refuses to let you walk by.

If you don't join in you are a parfi

pooper. ü4rat the New Year's eve Henry fails to understand is that some of us parly quietly to overselves all the

investigative journalists milled informedly in front of live CNN on the video.

Bar snackers kept looking at their watches and then around them expectedly as though the first Iraqi scud missile wotild enter obligingly through the front door, hook a left and bed itself in the coffee machine.

The coalition forces, being no respecters of the Hong Kong lunch hour, stubbornly refused to attack and diners dribbled away from this grand non moment in history unable to say to future generations when asked where they were when the war broke out "in the Foreign Correspondents Club!"

Breaking out was very much in my mind during a recent professional lunch meeting in the Dining Room. The guest was the eminent Australian sinologist, Stephen Fitzgerald. "He has a lot to say," promised the speil? Indeed he had and he said all of it. It was good stuff, too, an interesting and original thesis on the place of Australia in the region. The only trouble was that it took threequarters of an hour.

Now I'm a grown up and my attention span can stick that out without much difficulty. What carnot is my bladder.

Ordinarily, and about my daiþ business, it would have a fighting chance, but aÍter a couple of long slugs with ice in

the hospitality tent

Parlð/ time for our loyal staff IT WAS

that special night of the year when the FCC members express their thanks for the excellent service they get throughout the rest of the year the night of the staff party, laid on by the club.

This year's event at the Hopewell Centre's Round Dragon restaurant on January 5 attracted most of the staff, who showed that they were an equal match for their usual

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customers when it comes to letling their hair down and having a good time.

And \Mith so many excellent caterers from the FCC including our manager Heirz Grabner the around Round Dragon had to be at its best. Happily, it was. The party was judged by all to be a great success.

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(è Smiles at the table Íron (lelt to rÍght\ barman Fung Wah Keung, assistant butcher Ng Yin Kwong, grill cook Lo Wing Kwong, waiter Ku Lui, waitress Shirley Kwong, waiter Raymond Yam Leung Wah, barmen Wu Man

Manager Heinz Gral¡ner and his family Josephine - wife and son Henry were there to join in the Îun.

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Obviously enjoying themselves mightily are (standing left to right) assistant head waiter Simon Chung, headwaiter Michael Tsang, cook Wu Ching Kong, cook Cheng Hing Yau, cold kitchen hand Lam Wa Sang, sous chef Lo Chi Mun, sauce cook Leung Kwok Wai, and captain David Tsang, with (sitting) barman Keung Tsang Yee. barman Yuen Chi Ning, captain Cheng Koon Sing and chef Alan

beforehand and

topped up wine glasses throughout the meal, it hasn't a prayer.

Half-way through and the fireballs were ringing down there. was not alone either. There were those tell-tale ticks and contortions on faces down the table. Someone would occasionally sit up very straight, almost arching back-

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wards and stare at the ceiling with pursed lips as though mr-rlling hard on a speaker's point.

Being a Board member on these occasions is a marked disadvantage because you are seated at the top table.

Slipping away for a leak looks like a

year round.

There was a strange sense of parly at

walk-out. At the very back of the room, well below the salt, diners who could were slþing in and out at regular inter-

hmchtime round the Main Bar on 15

vals at the slightest hint of pressure.

January. Saddam Hussain was obliged to get out of Kuwait just before the

Never have I envied my follow men so

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blackboard daiþ specials came off. The bar filled to almost choking. Crowds of

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The front office team accounts clerk Jennifer,

office secretarY Teresa and club steward Julia

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were together as alwaYs.

much.

'It was the Great Gatsby with Carlsberg' 1991

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LETTERS

I\EWMEMBERS

'We are sure Ted's

FURTHER to my letter of November

10th,

I

have been informed that a

further deposit of C$9,109.94 was made

hope is that Ted will be able to visit Hong Kong at some time in the not too distant future and thank you all.

Ted has made some progress since I wrote to you. It is, perhaps, small, but very real. The tracheotomy tube was removed in mid-November and this enabled him to verbalise.

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"no"

don't kno'ù/".

Yesterday, when I asked him how many hours in a day he replied "24"

without hesitation. This surprised me, but I lcrow that there is a store of

FREELANCER Paul Mooney has joined the FCC as a Correspondent

Edward Lupton, who is on the staff of Corporate

member after several years

operating out of Taiwan.

New York-born Paul spent five years as a Newsweek researcherin his home town before going to Taiwan as a special correspondent with the magazine in 1985. He has since been a correspondent for Visnews, .4søweek and ¡}..e San Francisco

Communications Ltd.

Director-editor of Maçromedia Services, Birendra

Chrzniclp.

Julie Elaine Ho,

a

Canadianwho is the general

manager

of

Wadsworth

Media and Marketing Services, has joined the FCC as an Associate member.

Barrister Jeevan Hing-

orani, an

Indian-born

British citizen, has also joined as an Associate member.

Office, John Miller, another new Associate

is

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as

its deputy editor. He joined Macromedia Services last year.

Sundny Post reporter Simon Davies, formerþ with the Hong Stang Standard bnef spell, has joined

from Kathmandu, is a former sub-editor on Tke Rßing

member.

Kathmandubased reporter for Associated Press. He came to Hong Kong as a reporter with the

Hang Kong Standnrd in

the FCC as a

Journalist

Peter Caldwell

joined as a new Associate member. He is on the secretary-general at the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre.

Another Associate memFEBRUARY 1991

CLASSIFIEI)

a

freelance feature-writer for a number of Hong Kong newspapers and magazines, has joined the FCC as a Journalist member.

if you phoned us first at (604) 535-2255.

We all look forward to seeing you.

Thanks again for aJl that you have done.

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smcerery:

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Thomas hits back

a deadline IF IT is not a match made in heaven, it is certainly one made in the counting-house. FCC Board mem-

ber Michael Taylor, inveshnent writer with the Far fustsrn E(mn-

rnic Rwicu), married

banker's

daughter Susie füpp ataceremony in ùdordshire early in January.

The couple honeymooned in the both.

Keeping up with the Joneses THE FCC is planning a

Londoner Richard

Crampton,

At last, he's made

West Indies. füngratulations to has

member.

Information co-ordinator

at the Chief Secretary's

Petrolpuyn News

K. Shrestrai, has been admitted as a Correspondent member. Birendra, Neþal and

Caldwell

that Ted's spirit will prevail. He has enjoyed visits from some of his old Hong Kong friends and I hope that any of you who travel to this area, will find the time to visit him. It would be better

Davies

public relations consultant

Welsh

Night on MarchS which is as close as

CENTRAL OFFICE TO LET 856 sq. ft. fi24,5OO per month, including air cond., management fee and rates. Furniture and

fittings negotiable.

Call Tina on 526-6277 for appoinrmenr ro view

I WAS pained to learn that Peter Cord-

ingley is calling for fewer misty-eyed

in

Th¿ Corresþmdent.

At the risk of being accused of "oldfartism," it seems to me that recollec-

reminiscences

tions of some of the golden days of the FCC are indeed appreciated and enjoyed by many of the former members now living in foreign parts.

I have in my posession over a hundred letters, faxes and telexes that support that view.

As for Mr C.ordingley's view that

there is some confusion in my mind about fact and fantasy, I should have

we can get to Saint David's Day.

Entertainment will be provided by

Near FCC. Suit PR or media company. Approx.

the

of two halves - and halves in which both teams scored.

In a game that is all about getting the ball in the back of the net and doing what the boss says, you claimed the Post won the game easily. I'11have to blow the whistle on that. It was 1-1 and all the boys "done great". Gazzahad

dice.

1988, but soon moved to

in

of The Cawes-

November edition þandent.

He can tell some colours and read the

ber admitted to the club is

Post-Reuters football match

weeks. Now that he can talk, he complains a lot about this. We try to convince him that it is for his own good I'm aJraid that he doesn't always buy this. In any event, he is moving a little better and will usually follow the therapist's demands. His weight is down below 160 pounds so he will be hard for some of you to recognize.

As I said in my last letter, we are sure

and, occasionally, an

Shrestrai

I WAS as sick as a parrot when I read your report of the South China Morning

has physiotherapy five times most

tions appropriatelywitha "yes" or

Lupton

knowledge locked up in there ard we are working to get it out.

He is also progressing physically. He

to my bank account on December 10th.

My wife and I cannot begin to express our deep gratitude to all who have so generously contributed to the fund. Our

He adds words to his vocabulary almost daiþ and can now put short sentences together. He answers ques-

Crampton

Soccer slip-up

spirit will prevail'

The Royal Regiment of Wales (complete with mascot) and we promise press guests there will be

plenty of "leeks". Mark it in your

diaries now all you Hugheses, Joneses, Evanses, Morgans etc.

Despite it being all ahout 90 minutes on the night, it also proved to be a game

nothing on the lads that night. They was magic.

Your failure to hitthe target is enough to make any self-respecting local soccer player wrap especially a Post lad his jockstrap in a copy olthe Hongkong Standnrd, throw it in the harbour and

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head

for Kai Tak chanting: "You're

going home in an ambulance" The two sides are scheduled to meet again on January 4. A crowd wor:ld be appreciated, although an independent referee even more so.

Yours in the dug-out, David "Bites 'yer legs" Fox, (sitting next to the man in the sheepskin coat and chunky gold jewellery).

I REAILY must put the record straight after your story of the Reuters- SCMP soccer match, Hacks Hacked, in the November issue, which alleged "The Post team won the match easily."

The result was in fact a 1-1 draw as

our gallant lads held on heroically, having been hacked down to 10 men in the second half.

The replay was scheduled for January 4 and I know both teams were looking for a competitive but friendly game.

Geoff Cornford

thought that anyone with his longsknd-

ing connections with those two examples of literary perfection and towering intellectual staL.,ts (Thp TV and Entertainment Tim¿s and M Magazine) should know that fantasy is usually a lot more enjoyable, and fact tends to get careless journalists into trouble.

Ted Thomas

SORRY: My reþort was based on a Reuters' þlayer's nmment that "we were outþlnyed". tooh chnnces with the re,rnntch andturneduþ on the touchlinp to consult the "vnnn in thz sheeþsþin coat" and get the smre right. I hþe the reþort anl þirturæ in this ßsue meet with the aþþroaal of both sides.

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I BOOKS

BOOKS Short history of the FCC A NEW edition of Historic Postcards of Hong Kong, published by Stock House, features on its cover the now celebrated Murray Zanoni painting of the FCC's Lower Albert Road headquarters, ald on the flyleaf a brief history of the club.

The history tracks the FCC fortunes from its origins in Chungking in 1943 to the magnificent current premises which have been our home since 1982, thanks to the assistalce of former governor, Lord Maclehose.

It is a mixture of elegantþ crafted

witty observations on some of the lighter aspects of the club's research and

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Australia towards the end of 1987 that went: How do you make a small forlune

in Australia?

Answer: Give young Warwick Fairfax a large forhrne.

In time Warwick Geoffrey Oswald Fairfax stood to inherit one of the world's few remaining family-owned

Fairfax was a hugely profitable company which prided itself on the journalistic excellence of its newspapers.

Slhat makes Carroll's book compulsive reading is his ability to take the reader behind the headlines that sur-

of 26, young

rounded young Warwick's takeover.

According to Carroll there were four

Warwick launched a A$2 billion takeover for John Fairfax Ltd - publishers

contributing factors which went handin-hand in the demise of Fairfax.

ne\Mspaper empires.

In

1987, at the age

of the Sydney Morning Herald, Age and the Australia Financial Reuieu.It was the biggest takeover by a single person in Australian business history.

Three years later, the company was

in ruins, strangled by debt and eventually forced into receivership, drawing the curtain down on 150 years of pub-

lishing history in Australia.

Carroll's timely book is not only a chronicle of the demise of John Fairfax Ltd, it is also a case study of what happened in corporate Australia when the Federal Labor Government cut the banks loose in the 1980s.

Carroll writes with a deep understanding of the Fairfax company. During his 26 years he edited the

First there was the Fairfax family itself. On one side was Lady Mary Fairfax, Sir Warwick Fair{ax's third wife, mother of young Warwick, and the power behind the throne. On the other rvas James Fairfax, Sir War-

wick's son from a previous marriage, who replaced his father as chairman in 1976 after a bitter boardroom battle.

The second factor was the shift in the

balance of power within the family from Sir Warwick to James. As Carroll points out: "The management and style of the company had radically altered."

The third factor was the rise of the Labor Party at federal and state levels

in the 1980s. Carroll writes: "State

26 THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 1991

P I

',;''llUX¿ 's zodiacal

emblem and the totem

of

Chinese

power) recentþ arrived in Hong Kong.

He has been travelling around Asia since 1973, when he started covering the Indochina wars in Cambodia and Laos for the Paris daily Liberati.ott.

He has never stopped reporling on

the region since that time, and criss-

to Hokkaido and from Ulan Bator to

overthe media, butthe Federal government controlled radio and television

After Labor's win in 1983 it set about creating the conditions to break up the fwo newspaper groups it saw as its broadcasting.

the Heral.d and Weekly Times group (later taken over

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by Rupert Murdoch) in

Melbourne,

Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, and Fairfax in Sydney and Melbourne.

Both had substantial television and radio interests apart from newspapers.

Ownership rules for radio and television stations changed, opening up the opporbunity for company raiders to break up both groups."

The fourth factor, and perhaps the most important, was the Federal Labor Party's decision to allow foreign

banking into Australia.

time of rising deregulation of

"It

came at a world liquidity and money markets and

opened the way for financial deals based on debt the size and shape undreamed of."

The Man

Wo

Couldn't Wait: War

wick Fairfax's folþ and the banh,ers who backed hirn. By V. t. Cawoll Milliam

Heinem¡tn Australia).

Bandoeung through Peking.

He opened Liberation's first Asia¡r

governments had no direct powers

traditional enemies

crossed the continent from Afghanistan

bureau in Hong Kong in 1985. He is also the Asia correspondent of In Point, one

Review by Karl Wilson Australian Financi.al Reuiew, the now dehnctNatioynl Times and the Sydney Morning Helali and was a director of several Fairfax subsidiary companies.

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Historic Postcards of Hong Kong, with a¡r introduction by Ian Buruma, is

the man who lost a fortune

THERE was a joke doingthe rounds in

the'mythical creature'

47 years.

now on sale at the club.

Warwick

Deng

of the major French weekþ magazines.

Sabatier joinedthe FCC atthattime and was asked by the French publishing house Lattes (part of the giant Hachette

group) to write a biography of Deng

Xiaoping. Though not a sinologist, a¡rd not even a Mandarin-speaker (he graduated in English from the Sorbonne), his more than 15 years of acquaintance with Chinese politics and society and numerous trips from Tibet to Heilongjiang enabled him to write a book aimed at a wider public as well as

at those for whom China is work or passion.

Iz De:rnier Dragoz is as much a saga

of the last century in China as the story of Deng himself. The book had more or less been completed by early 1989, and

was to be published for the 40th anniversary of the PRC, in October that year. Then came Tiananmen! Sabatier

arrived in Peking on April 20, a few days after Hu Yaobang's death and stayed in the Chinese capital without intemrption (except a two-day round trip to Hong Kong to have his visa

renewed)

until the end of

Ju1y,

chronicling dayby dayin the columns of Liberation the momentous events of the Peking Spring.

On the night of June 3rd-4th, he was one of the few reporters who stayed on the square until its evacuation by the

Patrick Sabatier "Deng doesn't really last students around 5am. His reports on Tiananmen were published as a special supplement of Liberation and sold more than 100,000 copies.

This, and the subsequent coverage of the evolving situation in China, led him to add new chapters to his draft, and to complete the book only last June, one

year after Tiananmen.

I¿

Demi.er

Dragon reads like fiction, though it is as rigorously factual as possible, given the secretive nature of Chinese communist politics.

It relies on a vast amount of published books and arlicles, both scholarly and journalistic, as well as French archives and personal interviews. Sabatier was one of the first reporters to visit Deng's

birthplace, Guarg,

in

Sichuan, in

1988.

I¿ Demier Dragon does not claim any sensational "revelations", coming as it did after the masterþ Deng of Sabatier's colleague and good friend, David Bonavia, published in Hong Kong in 1989. But it has been widely acclaimed in France variously as "a factual novel", "a masterþ historical

to-date and penetrating assessment of Deng's careet", and well received by the general public and sinologists.

Sabatier describes a Deng who is

neither the Great Reformer nor the Butcher of Tianalmen, neither the antiMao nor the last Maoist, but a complex character, molded by the four revolutions he has been through.

"One may argue", says Sabatier in his preface, "that Deng doesn't really exist.

As his totemic animal, he is a composite

and largely mythical creature. His words and his acts express at any given moment the ever-changing balance between factions and opinions within the Communist Party, or rather within the tiny elite that runs it".

This, he reminds us, "is nothing new.

Power in China, as Father Huc remark-

ed in the mid-l9th century, is not as despotic as one may think. The Emperor is only the centre, and can remain

so only by embodying the

balance

between many forces and groups who singularly limit his freedom to act...", I-e Dernier Dragon, 423 þ., .Inttæ, Parß.

Price: HK$284.

narrative" and "the most complete, upTHE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 799127

JOURNALISTS' ASSOCIATIOI\ü I\E\ry'S

JOURNALISTS' ASSOCIATIOI\ü I\E\ry'S Mercy plea to Li Peng for two in custody

THE HKJA's annual fund-raising ber's ticket costs

The HKJA has joined international appeals to China's Prime Minister Li Peng to intervene in the case of two journalists facing possible death sentences for carrying out their profes-

year

Keep an eye on Hong Kong,

$350.

dinner and ball willbe held this In a deparbure from previous at the Grand Ballroom of the Grand years, the HKJA is not selling Hyatt Hotel in Wanchai, on April separate raffle tickets for the occawhen the guest of honour will sion. Lucþ pnze draw numbers the Chief Secretary Sir David Ford. are included with the dinner ard A VIP table for 10 can be booked ball tickets.

4, be

sional duties.

The union, supporling a move by the International Federation of Journalists, which has already written to Li, issued a statement and circulated a copy of it to the Hong Kongbranch of Xínkunnews

for $9,000. A single VIP ticket can Further details be purchased for $900 and a mem- soon.

will be issued

agency.

The statement expressed concern about Wang Juntao and Chen Zeming, respectively the editor and publisher of the Econornics Weekly, which was banned after the massacre of pro-democracy protestors in June 1989. It added: arrested in October 1989 and they have been held in custody for more than one

opinion and expression."

The union's statement went on: "We believe that all journalists, who have a duty in the public interest, should not be detained or prosecuted for acting upon their conscience and for their professional work."

censorship, self-censorship in the press, the passage of the Basic Law, the current enactment of the Bill of Rights, and efforts by Xinhua news agency to keep

to restricted areas at Kai Tak Airport, HKIA chairman Emily Lau has received an undertaking that the authorities will in future do theiruhnost to make matters easier for journalists access

covering issues of media interest.

However, the promise falls short of guaranteeing unrestricted access to people considered to be newsworthy,

and the reply points out that these people, too, have rights to decline to be

interviewed or photographed against

tleir

wishes.

In his letter to Lau,

Chris Wong,

active local journalists under surveillance.

She also urged Article 19 to continue

to

monitor media developments in Hong Kong, given fears that human rights and press freedom will continue to come under pressure as the 1997 date

for the coÌony's transfer back to rule by China approaches.

Meanwhile, a joint report by the HKJA and Article 19 on the implications of the transfer of sovereignty is nearing completion and should be pubin time for it to lished early in March be used as evidence to the UN Human

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Rights Committee hearings on Hong

All eleven entrants to our new-style Griphos competition submitted correct solutions. Congratulations to regular contestant Tony Munday in being the 'lucky winner.

Tony's luck must be in this is the - his name second time in a row that has been first dawn from the hat.

Hiram Walker have kindly agreed to provide "a bottle of spirits" to Griphos Winners.

The solution was:

Skilled operators can dye jade a

richer green. A good dye job can be hard to detect but buyers should beware of jade iir which the color seems to float on the surface, indicating that the dye has not penet-

rated deeply.

Timothy Green, "The

Jade

Trade."

Kong which are scheduled to be held in New York later that month.

Beetle bliss The Sing Pao Daily News (A) squad in the red strip line up with their Group A opponents, Express Daily News in the first round.

THE 7TH JA Cup soccer tournament is well under way, with 17 teams competing to reach the final on March 10.

Matches are being played at the hard-

ground pitch outside the Tokwanwan Indoor Games Hall in Sheung Heung

The teams taking part are: GROUP A - Sing Pao Daily News (A), ATV,

Express DailyNews, Hong Kong Daily News;GROUPB - SingTaoPao, Chui Hai News College Alumnae, Tin Tin

Yat Pao (A), The Morning

News;

Road, Cheung Ling Sh'eet, Tokwanwan.

GROUP C

tion Services Departrnent, said tlrat all possible steps should be taken to prevent a recurrence of a recent incident

Po; GROUP D - Combination Team, Oriental Daily News, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, Reuters, Sing Pao Daily News (B). '|he Reuters team, after wiruring its

A promise and a warning FOLLOWING the union's protest over

DANGERS to freedom of the press and free expression in Hong Kong were explained by HKJA chairman Emily Lau when she attended the Interrrational Board meeting of Article 19 in London on November 30 at the invitation of its chairman, William Shawcross.

latest situation in Hong Kong on film

year. They are now facing charges of 'counter-revolutionary incitement' and 'subversive activity', which could lead to long-term imprisonment or even a death sentence if they are convicted.

"The HKJA protests strongly against

and impingement on the freedom of

Lauurges freedom group

The London-based non-government organisation campaigns for freedom of expression and information throughout the world, taking Arlicle 19 of the Intemational füvenant on Civil and Political Rights as its starting point.

Lau briefed the gathering on the

"Wang and Chen were reportedly

the treatment of the two journalists and the charges brought against them by the Beijing government. We deplore such acts of serious violation of human rights

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which led to a number of journalists being prosecuted for breach of airport

- TVB, Tin Tin DailyNews (B), Ming Pao Daily News, Wen Wei

first game 9-0, was disqualified when it

regulations - though the prosecutions were not followed through.

was discovered that there were no journalists in the squad, but it is being allowed to complete its committed

entering restricted areas with an airline

gameq in order to avoid disrupting the schedule.

The HKJA thanks Puma for spon-

Wong warned journalists against

ticket simply to conduct interviews or cover an event.

He repeated the point made by the union that journalists are not above the law and shotild not be asked to break the law for the sake of getting a story.

assistant director (news) of the Informa-

28 THE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY 1991

FCC member and Reuter repofter Danny Kwok has two loves in iife Karen Yang and a powder blue 7972 Volokswagon beetie.

He managed to get both in on the act when he a¡rd Karen, who have known each other since childhood, got married in Hong Kong on January 6.

After the ceremony at Hong Kong's City Hall, family and friends includpiled into a ing his bureau colleagues fleet of 10 immaculately preserved Volkswagen beetles for a parade through Causeway Bay and Happy Vailey

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before assembling for the obligatory photo session at Wong Nai Chung Gap

car park overlooking Hong

sori4g the competition and Pereast Ltd for supplying free cooling drinks to

harbour.

There the couple braved biting winds and diuzle for over an hour to pose on a rare Beetle convertible with the hood down before heading for the Foreign Corespondents' Club for the more traditional business of eating and

slake the thirst of the players taking

drinking.

part.

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Kong

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Darny, 27, has been with Reuters since December, 1988. Karen, aJso 27,

is an executive secretary for the general

manager

of a luxuy hotel in

Hong

Kong.

Danny struck a professional note for - he wrote a hearlfelt feature on the cost of getting married in

this wedding

the British colony which Reuters Hong Kong, with commendable timing, moved on the wires at the moment the happy couple were nervously waiting at the Registry Office.

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