The Correspondent, December 1975

Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong

December, 1975.

The¡

Presídent

Keith Kay

First Vice President Bert Okuley Second Vice hesident P. Viswa Nathan

Treasurer Gail Johnson Secretary Edward K. Wu

Editor Harold Ellithorpe Photographer Hugh Van Es

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Tokyo, 1940 The Lobby Lounge of the Old Imperial

Ove¡ on the left was a table-full of Germans.

The fìrst Foreign Correspondents' Club in the Far

They all wore swastikas

I ever relaxed with gaijin and local pressmen was the old, incomparable Imperial Hotel of Tokyo in 1940. There were othe¡ official clubs to

and gave the Nazi salute.

East in which

which gaijin had access: the American Club, then up the lane from the original post-war Shimbun Alley F.C.C.; and the Tokyo Club, with its marble ba¡ and Pommy-club-style armchairs. But the "club" in which

we foreign-devil pressmen drank was the lobby-lounge of the old Imperial, now, alas, bulldozed and replaced with a Hong Kong-type sþscraper.

This was the august hotel, administered by the urbane Inamaru-san senior, where all foreigners on "exes" resided - a, yeaÍ before Pearl Harbour - where drunken ambassadors from rival powers were two-ayen, and where you could tread on the corns of a titled _-:\European woman any day with the greatest of ease ¿ \ /and sometimes with the greatest of satisfaction.

Here I first met Russell Brines, still alive, Pat Morin (RIP) and Percy Whiteing (AAP, RIP), who sometimes wore a Pommy bowler-hat. Jimmy Cox (Reuters) had bravely jumped to his death, after being arrested by the abominable kempeitai, just before my arrival. Hessell Tiltman was temporarily in China.

But Richard Sorge, Berlin correspondent and also a press agent

at General Ott's

embassy^ whom we all regarded as a typical Nazi-caricature, but who was the

greatest Russky commy spy of all time, (RIP), sometimes joined our press-club table; together with Branko de Voukelitch, another unsuspected Yugoslav member of the Sorge spy ring, and one of the bravest and most amiable pressmen I ever knew. (RIP).

by Dick Hughes

The unotficial F.C.C. did not assemble until after 4.30 p.m., because in those days the grog was not ¡\ ) turned on in any Tokyo pub until 5 p.m. It was the -/ New Order, alas. It was wise to hurry at 5 p.m., also, because beer, like most other things, was scarce in Tokyo then, and the Imperial had been known to run out of supplies - bottled and draught - by 7 p.m.

You could get good tea, of course, and sufu milk and one lump of sugar. And meat sandwiches with sufu butter. No scones or toast; and, for some extraordinary reason, no plain bread and butter. I remember one night when dear Pat Morin just in from Shanghai was denied plain bread and butter and ordered meat sandwiches. He ate the bread and butter but arrogantly left the meat on his plate. The staff were bewildered.

The lobby was a pleasant place wide and cool, with massive red pillars, Japanese dwarf trees, a soft orchestra, thick aad terraces op

plete with

pool

handful of fìreflies on summer evenings.

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ar-girls ¡ corn,

even a

A

breadcrust-throw

away was perhaps the most pathetic table in the lobby

-

the Italian

fascists. There were always five or six of them - headed by the little consul, who talked, talked, talked, and his sad yes-man, the vice-consul (who looked at our laughing press-club assembly with envious eyes). Nobody

wanted them. The German Nazis despised them, never mixed with them, never recognised them. The Japanese didn't conceal their contempt for them.

Over against the wall was the Polish camp which some of us pressmen often happily joined. One was the Polish military attache, ramrod-backed, as scornful of the Japanese as of the Italians and Germans, monocled, eagle-profiled. Another was a sabre-scarred countturned-bu5inessman - a good friend of mine,later RIP in Vienna - who lost his castle to the Bolsheviks, built up a flourishing business in Warsaw and then lost that to the Nazis. He had a fierce manner and drank neat

double gins but was nevet drunken. The Germans looked the other way nervously when he strode past.

Magnifìcent young Russian women - regal, furred and dramatic and usually called "Tamara" - regularly

joined the Poles. From Shanghai, ofcourse.

Then there was someone who made the heads turn

and the tongues wag - a graceful brunette, with petulant mouth and flashing eyes. She was English. She had married a Japanese millionaire in England six years before on the stipulation that they should have no children. They came to Japan. The husband then wanted a family. She refused. They separated amicably. The husband married a Japanese girl but still had no family. So the year before he had decided to adopt a daughter - his beloved English ex-wife. Unique, I think.

Ove¡ in anothe¡ corner - unprecedented in any club to which I have belonged or visited - was, most evenings, a sturdy figure, wearing modest dark skirt and veiled, broad-brimmed woman's hat, sipping straight vodka: a male "foreign adviser" to the Gaimusho (Foreign Office), who liked to dress up as a woman in the evenings, who accosted no one, lived a lonely life, and was taken for granted in his-her eccentricity by General Manager Inamaru and the Japanese staff.

(When he died in Tokyo after the Occupation, the Japanese Prime Minister and several ministers attended his-her funeral. His-her Western government - the bastids - had denied him a return visa to the homeland.)

And then - always punctiliously at five up thé steps from the entrance would hurry the little square(Continued over page) 3

The Lobby Lounge of the Old Imperial

EDITOR'S NOTE Our membership is polyglot.

We speak many languages and

(From page 3)

derive from many cultures. Indeed,

shouldered Russian who had the richest fur trade in Tokyo and who helped all US pressmen with tip-

probably no other press club in

offs and warnings. He had fingers of

iron. When he was excited, he scorned waiting for the bargirls to use a bottle-opener and literally wrenched the tops off the beer bottles with his bare fìngers, squeezed each top into a shapeless mass and dropped it on the floor.

He always drank a full bottle of

vodka with his dinner.

Often, at 5 p.-., in any F.C.C. in the world, I find my eyes straying automatically and nostalgically at the door. For the reappearance of some of those 1940 characters. .

Anyway, a toast now to the old F.C.C. in the Tokyo Imperial Hotel,

the world except possibly the United Nations contains such rich variety. And we have prided ourselves that this is one spot in Asia where many tongues and many philosophies can mix uninhibited and with free equality.

Iately the Board of Governors has received several letters complaining of prejudicial statements made by some members against

the sensitivities of others. This is not a question the Boa¡d feels it can regulate by edict. House rules expressly provide that the Club itself shall not discriminate on any grounds other than professional

qualification and civil conduct.

Members are free to hold what-

ever opinions they wish, even opinions which in the eyes of others are blatantly prejudiced on racial, ethnic, cultural and sex grounds. And the Board has no intention of pre-determining what members say about their opinions.

To do so would deprive us of the very freedom we so applaud.

However, one cannot simply ignore the sensitivities of others.

As a matter of civility, we should be aware of the impact of harsh words on the sensitive, and seek

to avoid giving urìnecessary

affront. And never, we trust, should differences ofopinion lead to threats to take physical action.

We delight

in our variety and Let us also

treasure our liberty.

pride ourselves in our manners as gentlemen to whom the slightest offence is the gravest wound.

35 years ago.

BAR CHATTÏR Iast year some evil companions attempted to get our dear old Santa Claus zwacked before he hit the l5th Floor chimney chute to

Fve the kids their

Christmas

presents. Although ruddy of complexion and unsure who was Dancer and who Prancer, he carried out his

wondrous

duty with

delightful

charm.

Our hats offand glasses raised to the man who has twice volunteered to face 120 ankle-biters. And may

we hope that next Merry Season some more traditionally propor' tioned lard-gut steps up to answer the call of duty.

Santa's

jolly dwarfs, better

known as the Board of Governors.,

will be at the 14th Floor

bar,

relaxing after their hard labours of the year, keeping the Club alive for the annual Kids' Christmas PartY. Members may be interested to

know that in the last regular renewal of the Club's insurance,

one bit of coverage was eliminated.

We are no longer protected against aeroplane damage. If you see a 4

Boeing 707 coming in the window, run like hell. There's no way you can collect.

One of the best bar recipes we've heard (and it must be credited to a long-gone ABC-TV producer who

it to the Far East) is a Dirty Mother. A glass of milk, one shot of Kalua, and a jigger of vodka. One bottle for the yelping infant and he's at peace with the world. (Or, a useful variation, the Drty Mother-in-law where Tia Maria is substituted for the Kalua.)

imported

So famed did this drink become

that the old Danang Press Centre featured it on their list of cocktails hung above the bar.

Word around the bar is that most news agencies will not hand out annual pay boosts this winter.

With inflation still stinging, that's bum news, indeed, for many of the lesser-paid workers of the press.

We've heard of the growing antagonism between the Police and the Anti-Corruption Commission

workers who have

put

several

policemen behind bars and are dili-

gentþ looking for more. But

we

heard that two regular detectives of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force politely picked up an I.C.A.C.

official they found at a Wanchai in the moming. They saw the over-imbibed gentleman

bistro early safely home.

There is still a code of chivalry

which recognises that all men are, after all, mere frail human beings 4 who deserve the protection of all \ other frail human beings.

You won't believe this.

Lockhart's already famed

Saul

Japanese

terrier, "Macquire," has

myster-

iously acquired a case of the clap.

The mutt is only six years old.

Enquiries into the source of this social ailment are being made in Repulse Bay. One could suspect such a future.

"Macquire" was a gift to Saul in 1969 by our one-time poetical movie reviewer and bon vivant, Jack Moore. He will be remembered as the Canadian who hit town and wrote A Gentleman's Guide to Hong Kong.

Ring Out the Old and Stagger into the New The F.C.C. has survived another year and to celebrate the fact, the

If you're expecting the rubber chicken and green peas normally

Hopefully, the event will turn into an annual or bi-annual event.

served at big parties, we suggest you

Winners would receive trophies and

make reservations at twice the price

prizes. Among the prizes suggested by non-diceplayers - handcuffs and

elsewhere.

Club will be holding it's annual New Year's Eve party, appropri-

The kitchen staff is laying on a main course of U.S. Prime Rib or

ately enough on December 31 from 8 p.m. onwards. Once again, the Guy Lombardo of the Far East, Vic locke and his band, will provide the dance music.

Rock Cornish Game Hen, preceded

A

backup combo called the

Ramblers will fìll the interludes while Vic is taking fìve. . . so you'll always have continuous music to order drinks by.

Orruo

goes Texas-way

That genial gentleman who runs

our vaginal-shaped bar, Mr. Liao Chien-ping, will be missing for a few weeks. He's taking off for

fingered dawn

on an

empty

stomach.

Bad news

for

lovers

of

-

peace, plans seem to

Yangfze tournament. The San Miguel Corporation, which has done a great deal toward promoting game of Balut in the

the noble

Phlippines, has tentatively expressed interest in co-sponsoring a Yangfze tournament at the F.C.C. Guess

taurant in Del Rio. How do you like your egg foo yong? With Mr. Liao will soon be on his fìnal hitch with the F.C.C. He joined the Club when it was not much more

than a food stop in'Chungking

during World War II and followed and then to Hong

it to Shanghai Kong.

mid-

February.

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if

The committee hopes to continue the "National Night" series of dinner-dances in January with a Philippine Night. This is still in the earþ planning stages but gentlemen might check to see if their barongs stif fit.

We're also in preliminary discus-

sion with some local entrepreneurs about an F.C.C. boat excursion and barbecue to I¿ntau island.

Art

Troupe. Mr.

Iæe Yee-kuen and his three expert assistants will be presenting the fas-

Santa Claus/Father Christmas is standing by for a special call at the Club on Saturday, December 20.

His reindeer-powered sled is expected to touch down on Sutherland House around 5.30 that after-

experience shows that infants and children above age 10

noon.

do not

to

120 young

wif have assembled on the l5th Floor to share in games and carol-singing. They will also have decorated the l4llr Floor with a mass of crumbs and crumbled clubbers

napkins,

the

remains

of

their

refreshments.

He'Il be gone during January but

back with the Club in

So

players

Glove Puppets

who'll Ho Ho

Before then, up

tamales or not?

and asking

ganising a bridge night.

Bits and Pieces:

be shaping up quite well for a Club

it: a Chinese res-

l4th and 15th Floor

there arc any closet bridge in the Club, please make your presence known in a brief note so the committee can determine if there's any future in or-

quiet, and decorum

guessed

approaching total strangers on the

champagne breakfasts will be available to revelers who can't face rosy-

Del Rio.

You

be identified by their habit of them ifthey play bridge.

They've even gone so far as to suggest an organised game of duplicate or rubber bridge on the Club premises. This approach was tried at the F.C.C. several years ago but was not an overwhelming success.

in a new venture in the Texas city of Waukegan, Illinois, is now

There's eyidence that a militant,

hardcore faction of contract bridge players exists in the Club. They can

no one is quite sure what they are.

For those who normally fìnish up New Year's evening wearing lamp shades, we'd like to point out that the Club will remain open past the usual closing time. . . well past, if last year is any indication. . . and

a

visit to his sons in the U.S. One son who owns a tailot shop

in

by smoked salmon or pate de foie gras, lobster bisque or cream of scallop soup. The desserts also sound great, with names so obscure

gags'

Second only to Santa's personal gift-giving, the party higtrlight promises

to be a show by the Winning

cination of Fukien-style puppetry.

That's the programme. Now for

two: Although there

a plea or

age

is no

limit,

fit in well. And it is re-

quested that parents of school-age children can best ensure that the

party is a success by not clogging the l5th Floor with their presence (the l4th Floor bar will be serving as usual).

However, parents who would like to help run the party are much

in

demand and should leave their name at the Club office or speak to

Lorna St¡auss or Nikki

Ellis.

As President Ford sped througþ Asia this month, he was pursued bY a large gaggle of newsmen, many of

Here Come

the Mini-cams and lkey-Sans

whom were operating

strangeheavY

looking cameras requiring side-packs of equipment.

The era of pure electronic journalism has finally come to Asia.

Mini-cams which put events directly on to cassettes of tape have been in use in the U.S. and some places in Europe for some time. Asia still

utilizes the old film camera for television coverage. This is strange because the leading mariufacturers of the equipment are in Japan.

The heart of the new technique is the video-tape recorder from which camera cassettes can be edited. The model used on the Ford trip was the Sony 2850, quite

similar to the VTR unit presentlY used for playing back cassettes in the Club.

New Wonders in Old Cairo 1914, fifty or more producers, fìlm editors and technicians representing the American networks crowded into a small white building on the grounds of Cairo's Kubbeh Republican Palace. The building was the dispensary once used by President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and it had been taken over as the fìlm editing rooms' projection centre and master control for stories to be satellited to the United States in connection with President Nixon's visit to

In

June

of

Egvpt.

In the back parking lot, coaxial cables led to

a

strange spherical sttucture, which would beam film coverage of Presidents Nixon and Sadat to the USA, shortly before evening news time.

To digress, even at the beginning, the first news material to "roll" out of Egypt was a Nixon scenesetter by Barrie Dunsmore, then ABC's Rome-based correspondent, long involved in Egyptian coverage.

The network technicians imported from New York to and the projection facilities ater-than-usual handicaP

of

lack of time hoped

to

- in fact the "feed" wæ for

them the first test of their ground station positioning and satellite linkup, and so it was no surprise to me when the NBC Satellite Pool in New York advised us that they were not receiving our audio or video' The Dunsmore advancer was obviousþ lost somewhere in the stratosphere above the Mediterranean or Atlantic' "Well, iì's leaving here all right," said the chief engineer in our hushed Cairo master control room'

With camera crews equipped with the still-too-heavy Mini-cams, an editor can move almost anYwhere in the region to set up his small equipment. Editing the feed from the cameras, he can prepare a fast satellite feed to bounce the news around the world.

There is no fìlm, no processing, no laborious film editing.

There are' problems still being encountered. Tape editing is not

as

smooth from such small units

as

film would be, and the time saved is not as great as might be imagined.

But the techniques of instant electronicjournalism are sure to expand rapidly.

Equipment will be made lighter and more precise in function'

o'-u"'":t

i#n'i: ïï' iiî',ili, through the process. But cleanly

these are all minor problems at this

"Oh, the problem's not with you," said the Coord voice f¡om New York, apparently without appreciation of the irony of it all - "your material is being received okay in Andover, Maine. . . the problem is between there and New York!"

by Arnold Quint Collins

ABC NEIIS Hons Kong

To one who had lived in "Timeless Egypt", the arrival insert of those small, green men on Soleiman Pasha Street. And to the majority of Egyptians - the MUHATAR IL-AMR (Moon Station, if I have that right) was an inconceivable What was old stuff to us as one walked down the cor

floor film editing rooms, looking to the left or to the right, you could see an extraordinarily funny sight. In the foreground of each room two or three bustling film editors with fìlm all over the place. In the background, leaning through the windows from outside were the soldiers who were supposed to be patrolling

the palace grounds. . . six to eight of them were virtually tumbling in at each window, to watch the best show in town: old'fashioned film being edited'

Thus framed by each window, they seemed a study in almost Stone Age inexperience and wonder' I¿te in August of this year, I returned to Kubbeh Palace

to "bitd" our

coverage

of Dr.

Kissinger with

the initialing of the Sinai Accord. But this time I felt like those soldiers - gone were the dozens of British and American film editors with their hands flying,

juncture and will be solved.

Mini-cams have provided the key to electronic news coverage: mobility. Backed with portable editing gear ald the rapidly-developing

system

of

television stations and

satellites, news cameramen can now literally present events instantly, no matter where they occur.

For major television news agen-

cies in Asia, this is a revolution.

Arnie Collins tells us in the accompanying story how he encountered

this

strange

journalism

in

\,

r

new technique of

Cai¡o.

ENJ, as it is now being called

(for "electronic news journalism"), will soon be a routine feature in Asia. Ford \ryas covered by it throughout his recent trip. And it

ï

worked. The trend is sending Asian correspondents, producers, editors, cameramen and sound technicians back to the study books.

Film iungles like this are doomed.

juggling this o¡ that shot, this cutaway or that narration track, all replaced by one placid videotape technician per company, calmly editing the electronic output of our various videocasette mini-cameras!

Minicams? What were they? Miniaturised eleccamerahead and

videosignal, or

o the videotape d man. In othe¡ words, a fully electronic camera crew that could operate in the fìeld, and feed the satellite ground station or tape our newscoverage on convenient

/,\ tJ

casettes - either way without need for lengthy, sometimes disastrous processing. The c¡ew looks like a film crew ofthe future is that future here?

The price tag on the equipment is a drawback, and makes it unlikely that we'll see Minicams everyplace, any time soon. About $150,000 US per outfit _ plus

editing gear. Then there's the logistical problem in transporting the equipment. Coverage of president Ford in Romania was jeopardised when the polish Airline LOT advised us that they had no aircraft capable of shipping the 37 cases which belonged to three networks - from Cracow to Bucharest. (After a

Poland's UN Delegation in New york, the equipment mysteriously arrived.)

The new equipment is putting strange new words into our professional lexicon: a principal make of minicamera is the Ikegami. Editors who electronically edit videotape use a term of measure called the "icky" - as strange a noun as you've used lately.

Well, that's the nature of the gear that earned its

call

to

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ìl

stripes this past summer - first with hlm teams standing by for backup - and then with no fìlm backup - and then with no fìlm backup assigned.

I

was pretty sceptical

minutes. Even

at fìrst. For about three could tlese

if the gear worked,

exported studio cameramen (who all seemed to speak

with accents from the southern USA) possibly do the job of our overseas fìlm crews? The newcomers came from strong union shops. They had presumably never

worked outside the artificial world of a television studio. Their work had been dancing across a linoleum floor with monster studio cameras while someone else directed their shots for them. Most of them seemed never to have been outside the United States

-

scarcely ever been

to

a news event how camerawho had lived at the scene of the

different from our breed of expatriate fìlm man or soundman

-

world's major news events

stream

for a

decade

or

-

more.

of mere electronic pictures. They wed film

techniques.

As I write this, Air Force One is in the air, and so are our minicam teams. President Ford's China trip will be all minicam, and will take us farther into thã era of electronic news coverage - away from those nonetheless breathtaking nights spent with the Jiffy Processor in the former dispensary building in Cairo;s palace grounds.

Burrows and Sawada

.

Certainly the most dangerous

joumalistic task is that

oÍ the

photographer. Be he a televtsion cameraman or q still picture artist, the news photographer must always be in the thick of events where emotions qre more

taut, battle more frerce and the demands of instant talent and unswerving courage most necessary.

In tribute to two such photo- and to others of the

graphers

intrepid profession who worked in the Far East - the Club has installed four enlargements of prize winning photography.

Larry Burrows was for neaþ ten years the outstønding photographer of Life magazine in Asis.

He was killed with four fellow photographers - when a heli-

copter was shot down

Y

+{i-:

in southem Laos in 1971.

The two selections are from

Bunows' famous essay, "Yankee Papa 13," the story of an ill-

fated helicopter action

in

Vietnam.

Kyoichi Sawada was a quiet, ftercely dedicated photographer for United Press International.

He

covered more than 80 bottles, winning both Pulitzer and Capa Awords, as did Burrows. He was captured and executed in Cambodia in 1970.

On permanent dßplay will be his superb photo of a mother and her family swimming a swollen canal to escape from a battle and his classic of a dead liet Cong being dragged by a huge personnel canier.

The Burrows

photos

originally hung in Larry's office

in Hong Kong. They

)ere

presented to the F.C.C. by TimeLife bureau chief Roy Rowan.

UPI's Bob Curroll matched the

size ønd frame

for

Sawada's

pictures to complete the displøy.

These are harsh, ugly pictures of war, but they are realpictures

of real wan Let us hope thot such images so sear into the minds of men that war becomes unthinkable.

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Asiaweek Debut Asiaweek, billed as the region's hrst general-interest newsmagazine, hit the streets on December 10. For

run

something

like this: News,

covering Southeast Asia, North & East Asia, South & West Asia and

Australia,

in that

order; a

Page

buildup, some details: Editor is T.J.S. George, managing editor Michael O'Neill. Graham

about people; Centrepiece, a sounding board for academic, political and economic thinking; Asia & The World; Life & Mood (social affairs); Sport, New Books and The Arts.

Wilde is heading the management

There

side, and both he and George have

Environment, Religion, Science & Technology,

those who missed the ultra-secretive

on the board of Asiaweek Limited. It's not known which of seats

the

company's

two

corporate

backers, Bancom International and Fung Ping Fan & Co., will provide

the

chairman.

Mark

Pinkstone

(formerly Far East Trade Press) has taken charge of Hong Kong advertisement operations.

Asiaweek's section-heads will

is also a bevy of

such as Media,

variables

and so on.

O'Neill is telling correspondents that Asiaweek's style is "straight facts, lots of quotes by real people with real names, and moÂĄe facts."

will be confined to a of rotating guest columns.

Opinion couple

Book reviews and Art stories will be signed, but bylines elsewhere will

be used textually - and rarelY. The company's editorial and business ofltces are in Federal Building, 369 Lockhart lioad (tel.

154343). Dai Nippon is the Printer, and the fĂŹrst run was pegged at

18,000.

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TETTERS Dear Editor:

I attended the American nighj last Saturday evening and did not pick up my black woolen shawl when we left abo.tI 12:45 a.m. I have called in on Monday and also

it was not found by any ofyour staff. I therefore presume that someone must have taken it by mistake. Since this is a gift to me from my family I should be very glad of its return.

Would you therefore make some enquiries re this on my behalf and also place this notice where it can be seen by members.

members would like to buy a copy for themselves we would be glad to offer them a25 pet cent discount on the retail price of HK$127 or HK$95.

John Owen.

rang but apparently

Doreen K. Barnes

Dear Editor:

Very interested in squash, golf and chess idea, and in that order. I'm not very good at any ofthem but fully endorse any attempt to steer F.C.C. away from its preoccupation, nay, obsession, with booze, food, gossip and professional luncheons.

Dear Editor:

I had for lunch on Friday, November 14, some bacon and They were so good that I ordered a second helping.

Last night, remembering with relish the delightful bacon and eggs I had so enjoyed a week earlier, I ordered this simple dish again. The eggs tasted of ether. They eggs.

were absolutely disgusting. There is a particular flavour which one attaches to the cheap Asian egg. I don't know ifthere is a new policy to use cheap eggs in the 0 restaurant. If there is please, please rectify it.

Eggs are a basic ingredient. Ill flavoured ones can so many dishes. Cheap eggs are a false economy.

ruin

Yours egg-bound in anticipation.

Arthur Hacker

Ian Verchere Dear Editor: Dear Editor: a recent newsletter that in the remodelling of the Club Library, it was discovered that somebody had pinched the Club dictionary. Reader's

I remember reading in

Digest has recently published a new college dictionary and on behalf of the company I would like to donate one copy to the Club Library.

This is not a sales promotion! However, if any 10

I

am writing to thank you for all the cooperation you

in featuring Southern Comfort at the "American Night" held this month.

We are most grateful to the F.C.C. for giving us this opportunity and are very happy that the evening was

gave us

such a success.

Linda J. Owen International Development Agency Ltd.

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HONG KONG

CHINA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA

system of regular, off-the-record briefings for correspondents with

CENTRE OF ASIAN STUDIES PUBLICATIONS General Editor; Frank H,H, King

key American offìcers and visitors to Hong Kong.

This follows a good cooperation with U.S.I.S. on the use of a videotape recorder which brings tapes on all manner of subjects to anyone in the Club who cares to attend.

The latest tapes were an NIIK (Japan) show on South Vietnam under its new regime, a BBC fìlm shot by Brian Barron and his crew

on a recent trip to China, and a ¡ffimed interview with Prime VzMinister Kukrit Pramoj before the F.C.C. of Thailand.

CENTRE OF ASIAN STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG Offisional

Papers and Monographs:

R.J. Faulkner and R.A. Field, Vânqu¡shing the Dragon: The Law of Drugs in Hong Kong. (103 pp.) HK$20.00 Wong Siu-kit, The Genius

of Li

Po, A.D.

701-762 (64

pp.)

HK$15.00 T.G. iilcGee, Hawkers in Hong Kong: A Study of Planning and Policy in a Third World City. (240 pp.. plates and maps) HK$40.00

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G.C.P. R¡ches, Community Development in Hong Kong: Sau Mau Ping, a Case Study. {80 pp.) HK$16.50

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David Chaney and David Podmore, Young Adults in Hong Kong

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¡ Eddíe Wu ønd Charlie Smith

HK$22.00

K.N. Vaid, Overseas lndian Community in Hong

Kong. (108 pp.)

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Jen Yu-wen and Sir Lindsay Ride, Sun Yat-sen: Two Commemorative Studies. (31 pp.) HK$11.00

U.S.I.S. supplies regular tapes of important speeches and interviews of leading U.S. officials to the Club.

Closer cooperation between the correspondents in the Club and foreign consulates and commissions is one of the objectives being pursued by the Professional Commit¡tee. Hong Kong's own Government 'Information Services has been cooperative in providing access to officials of the Colony, and regular sessions are being planned.

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Many of these meetings are open

correspondent members only

and are given on a background basis only due to the delicate sensitivity of the information and a desire to keep the give-and-take as full and free as possible.

However, the tales and commentaries are available to all members who may wish to attend.

One item coming in regularly is the "NLF Game of the Week," a

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D.W. Drakak¡s-Smith, Housing Provision in Metropolitan Hong Kong. (150 pp., 15 plates, figures) HK$33.00

G.C.P. Riches, Urban Community Centres and Community Development: Hong Kong and Singapore. (135 pp.) HK$22.00

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Bibliographies and Research Guides: Maria C.K. Chu and Dorcas Hu (ioint compilers), Chinese Periodicals in the Fung Ping Shan Library, University of

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Kong. {200 pp.) HK$30.00

Sciences

David F. lp, C.K. Leung and C.T, Wu, Hong Kong: A Social Bibliography. (381 pp.) HK$50.00

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K.P. Chan, Ch¡nese art and archaeology: a classified index to articles publ¡shed in Mainland China periodicals, 1949.1966. (300 pp.) HK$45.00

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Forthcom¡ng: Cheung Chan Fa¡, Directory of Current Hong Kong Research on Asian Topics, 1975. HK$30.00

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Other Publ¡cations: S.C. Fan, Consumer price indices

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Special offer: all the above Trom Centre of Asian Studies only:

HK$267.00 Also available at South China Morning Post Family Bookshop, Star Ferry Concouræ.

favourite with Americans who want

to

see

a little home football.

The Correspondent, December 1975

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South African Detente?

the world's shipping -

South Africa is pursuing a PolicY detente with its neighbours in the southern part of the continent,

Europe.

including super oil tankers - makes its waY between Asia, the Midtlle East and

of

His remarks were sharply challenged and vigorously defended by several Club members. The main challenge was to South Africa's in claiming that it had credibility in

according to Denis Worrall, a senator in the South African Parlia'

ment and a widely-travelled lecturer and publisher.

Mr. Worrall declared that

government's sanction.

ln a talk

maintained a hands-off policy in Angola except for protection of a

the

South African Government had not authorised and did not condone the conduct of mercenaries in Angola, men whom he said were recruited in other places and without their

power project.

presence" in Angola would threaten

The session, attended by about members and the ConsulGeneral of South Africa, was one of

the Cape route by which much of

the liveliest of the year.

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Denis l4tonøll

before a luncheon at

the Foreign Correspondents' Club on November 2O, Mt. Worrall outlined his country's worries about the presence of Soviet Personnel and Cuban mercenaries in Angola.

He noted that a "permanent Soviet

Our

Seasons Greetings

An ankle-biter

tion, recession, tations and Íull year for iournalism in Asia.

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Interview Zones at Kaitak In pursuance to its new regulations on press arrangements at Kaitak International Airport, the

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Government Information Services has issued sketches showing the alternate interview points which may be utilized.

The points are as follows:

14€*JEÉ8F5tr*Ë Entrance Lobby, uæst srCe of TerminalBurlding

In the arrivalarea (ground floor)' interviews usually take place in the

arrival hall itself. However, alter'

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departures

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which press may not go. Also, there is the VIP conference room which can be used for smaller occasions' If newsmen have any questions

about airporl arcangements theY should contact GIS at 5-233191.

John Slimming has been handling much of the decisions on airport press matters and will be glad to lend a hand with any problems that 12

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What would the holidaY season be without all those goodies?

At the Holiday Inn's Delicatessen Corner we have take out specialities like Lebkuchen. And Stollen with marzipan or PoPPY seeds.

Like Black Forest Fruit Bread.

Like Smoked breast of goose; smoked eel;whole turkeys qnd gogs.e complete with stuffing; and beautiful

succulent hams.

We also Prepare oven ready roasts and all kinds of specialdishes

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in the First Basement of the Holiduy Inn ShoPPing Arcade'

Or just callWolfgang Dietz

at 3-6931i1 ext. 250 or I47 -he's waiting to helP You.

Prepare now for YourX'mas Parties

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Some of our members have rather odd hobbies. The oddest may be A¡t Miller who collects airline barf bags (clean, of course).

General. President Ferdinand and Madame Imelda Marcos have set something of a new tone in tendem foreign relations.

Asked about whether this wasn't a

National City Bank's top regional

Apparently there is a battle to develop better, fancier, more pleasing barf bags. Airline passengers will

PR flack, has been transfe¡red back

to the U.S. for a new assignment.

Unfortunately for us, he's also taking his charming wife, Eiko, with him and their two offspring.

Norm was serving as Club Treasurer, following the resignation of another bank man, G.C. Morgan, who stepped down in August.

The editor made a deplorable

be pleased to know that the men who put curyaceous skirts and pert hats on stewardesses, menus in

French and colourful logos on lowly barf bag. It, too, is now being decorated with pleasing designs and planes have not forgotten the

thank God

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clearer instructions.

Roy Rowan, Time-Life News Service chief in the Far East, is keeping up the pace. He held an

author's reception

for his new

book, The Four Days of Mayaguez, at the Peak Book Store on November 17. He hæ a novel in the mill and still jogs every morning. Roy was also one of Lhe 164 pressmen on the Presidential trip to Peking.

The book, written under heavy pressure last summer, was published

in just four days, something of record.

It

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has now reached most bookstores in Asia. Useful reading for those interested in the policy-

making methods

of the

Ford

Administration.

Hal Ellithorpe, editor of

this

. illustrious publication, wants everyjone to know that he takes credit or cruel criticism - only for thetext of a new book for Hong Kong visitors entitled Hong Kong. Ttre beautiful photographs are the work of Frank Fischbeck who is also responsible for the book's publication.

On The Move Paul Brinkley-Rogers has stepped up to replace Loren Jenkins as bureau chief for Newsweek. Paul is

an old Asia hand with previous work stints in Saigon, Hong Kong and Tokyo.

Jenkins managed a neat move: to Rome as Newsweek's man in the The Conespondent, December 19ZS

treasurer.

Norman Mlliams, long a UPI staffer in Asia and more recently First

They keep changing."

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lost another

We've

limited collectors' item, he responded, "No. It doesn't matter.

booboo last issue in saying that Neil Davis will be working for CBS in

Norm Willíams

Med. Just happens that he owns a Tuscany farm with its own small

vineyard. With neighbours, he is creating his own local víno label.

In case you hadn't noticed, two of the new top editors of the new

Bangkok. He will not. He decided to join NBC. Beg pardon, Neil and CBS and NBC and all their friends.

Speaking of names, other complaints came in from the first issue.

P. Viswa Nathan explained that we

newsmagazine, Asiaweek, are old

had mistakenly called him

F.C.C. acquaintances: T.J.S. George

Vishwa Nathan. The extra "h" would label him a northem Iádian while he prefers to be identified truthfully as a southerner.

and Mike O'Neill. Mike well

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members the "monsoon madness" of one June day a couple years ago which resulted in severe reprimands to over-happy imbibers for engaging in unseemly fìsticuffs. The pair are now taking on tough competitors in the other newsmagazines, including the Far Eastern Economic Review where they both formerly worked.

One of the neatest diplomatic switches is the move of the ConsulGeneral of the Philippines, Rafael A. Gonzales, to the post of deputy

chief of mission and

charge

d'affaires in Peking. His wife will take over in Hong Kong as Consul-

The FCC offìce still has a few copies of the ASSOCIATEDPRES.S

1975 ALMANAC which it is willing

to part with for the

modest sum

of $10 each. \{hen the new (1976) almanacs come in, the price will be back up to the former $25. So get your copy now of the old one at a reduced price.

P.

Our photographer also rose up in

a hu-ff.

It

seems

that Mr. Van

Es

objected when

a

referred to him

Hugo Van Es in

as

newsmagazine a

story out of Saigon last spring. His real name is Hubert. So we called him simply Hu. But, he proclaims,

he wants

it

own words,

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it

In his was, "You . . . stupid

spelled Hugh.

editor! My name isn't

...

Hu,

you dumb . . .It's H-U-G-H, any damned .. . knows that much . , . spelling." So, what the . . ., we'll change

it to Hugh.

LARRY BURROWS' brilliant book of phot os, COMPA SSIONATE PHOTOGRAPHER, is available at the Club office. Published by Life Magazine after his death, the book includes images caught by Burrows' camera from Angkor lrVat to the Bengal tidal wave Vietnam.

Special to Club members at HK$45.

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