The Correspondent, Vol 1 No. 10 1976

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ublished monthly as an organ of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong, Offìces at l5th Floor, Sutherland House, 3 Chater

hesident Bert Okuley

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First Vice hesident Jack Worth

Second Vice President

Martin Bishop Treasurer

Martin Bishop Secretary Ken Kashiwahara

Editor Don Ronk Photographer Hugh Van Es

Advenising Nida Cranbourne

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Our Cover:

he fìrst visited Hong Kong in 1949, and, in his words has been leaving Hong Kong "finally" ever since - "on the average of every four years" Because

Keith Kay refused to commit himself this time. More, lovely

Michelle's parents and brother grandparents and uncle to the two Kay children, Debbie and Warren - remain in Hong Kong. That will require some "home leaves."

Keith has been dragged "upstairs'

by CBS television as Bureau Chief in Paris, a decided promotion and one no colleague has been heard

to

and

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KONG. Address all corresto: Editor, Foreign Correspondents' Club of pondence

Viet Nam (reunified)

revisited: No smile in Saigon

By Bert Okuley

Hong Kong, l5th Floor, Sutherland House, 3 Chater

Colín Hoøth and lan WíIson ol CBC do a Viet Nam stand-up in front of Viet Nam war relics

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"People don't trust anybody, believing they could be informers to the government," says Iarr Wilson, back

in

Hongkong after a th¡ee-week visit to Reunified Viet Nam.

Wilson was filming a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) documentary with correspondent Colin Hoath and Ottawa producer Don

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Hanoi, however, there

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digital,"

Wilson said.

the big railway yard is still in ruins.

Palace Hotel is entirely fenced in,

1975 still litter areas around the runway, and the adjacent former

foreigner is allowed past the hotel's

- At Saigon's Tan Son Nhut air- "with elbow-toelbow soldiers port, the wreckage of planes and sitting around in fìlthy conditions helicopters destroyed in May of drinking soda," Wilson said. No American military headquarters just outside the base "is just twisted grrders.

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taken over by a representative of

The middleclass resident of Saigon wants to get out, and the

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going rate for getting smuggled onto a freighter from the central coast is US$5,000, in gold or American currency.

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Communist officials say they

will move 1.5 million people out of Ho Chi Minh City and into the New Economic Zones in the countryside within the next year.

"Everybodywe knew was gone," Wilson said of Saigon. "We passed

Wilson, who was UPI photo in Saigon at the height of American military involvement there and subsequently as a network cameraman, made these other

and we didn't look for them because we didn't want to cause them any

observations:

trouble."

chief

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The Government in Hanoi is

convinced that the American wire services and television networks are government-owned and controlled "and there was no way we could convince them otherwise."

- Hanoi is still 30 years behind the times, not having changed since

the French-Indochina war more than two decades âgo, while "Saigon is almost the city ìrve once

knew but sadder and drearier."

- No bomb darnage existed at the places the CBC team visited around Hanoi, but at the port of Haiphong, a half-day's drive south, The Correspondent, August 1976

entrance, Across the street at the Caravelle Hotel, the old CBS offìce has been

the word we

lrvere there and

people wanted

to

if

see us we'd talk

to them. But nobody showed up

-

the British

Embassy

in

Hanoi.

Cadres and government high-rankers

now occupy the rooms once fìlled by foreign joumalists.

The old Puegeot mini-taxis have all but disappeared from the wide boulevards of Saigon and Wilson said he'd "be surprised if there a¡e more than 20" remaining of the

hundreds which once

clogged

downtown streets. Because of the severe fuel shortage, foot-powered pedicabs and cyclos have proliferated.

The CBS team took a circuitous

route

to

Vietnam, travelling from

at the Majestic Hotel on the Saigon River. (The elevators still don't work properly.)

Hong Kong to Canton by train, then by air to Peking where they picked up their visæ. A Russianbuilt Chinese Airliner carried them into Hanoi (with a stop in Nanning) just two days prior to the massive earthquake which struck China.

The most impressive site in Hanoi, Wilson said, was Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum, a marble and

Nguyen Hue is still going strong,

Bank of China building here,

The CBC crew was accompanied

of their journey by communist cadres, except for dinner excursions from their ¡ooms during most

The Atterbea restaurant on

but Ramuncho's is shuttered, as is the L'amaral. The Viet My below old UPI bureau still bears the same

name (meaning

Vietnamese-

American) but it is now a "people's restaurant".

The terrace of the Continental

granite structure half the size of the and

built by the Russians.

Uncle Ho's remains are in a glassenclosed coffin flanked by a 24-hout honor guard, Wilson said.

Ho died in 1969 and his remains were preserved in the sarne manner continued on page 1l 3

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Four-and chimp-safe in wreck MIRI. - A cruise to Manila ended in rough waters off Miri last weekend when a 57-ft yacht went down after developing engine trouble and the crew had to struggle to shore in a rubber dinghy.

In another incident for the weekend, a small cargo freighter disappeared, its crew of 24, and two passengers, rescued by another freighter which picked up a distress call.

Biggest loser in Sunday morning's sinking of the yacht Bintang Terang off the coast at Mile 4, Lu-

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tong-Pujut Road, was the vessel's 38-year-old ownerskipper, Mr Ian Ward, former Singapore-based correspondent for London's Daily Telegraph.

He bought the yacht in Saigon three years ago while covering the Vietnam war anfl estimated thãt at today's values the Bintang Terang would have been worth more than $100,000.

Mr Ward also spent about $20,000 fitting it out for the trip to the Philippines where he had hoped to set up business with two of his crew, Mr percival Percado, a Filipino free-lance journalist and photographer, and Mr Charles Harry Crabb, a former Singapore journalist now turned businessman.

The other two survivors of the wreck are the yacht's engineer, Mr Francisco Aguilas - and the vessel's mascot,

a

three-year-old chimpanzee from Africa called I¡uise.

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National lranian's Safa visits distant Tibet

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Two communications fints were scored recently

by Safa Haeri: a direct broadcast by telephone to Teheran from Lhasa in Tibet, and a call from Lhasa to his staff in Hong Kong, where he is based as Far East Bureau Chief of NIRT (National lranian Radio & Television).

Safa made the calls as one of the few coÍrespondents to visit Tibet since the Chinese takeover 17 years ago. He accompanied the Shah's twin sister, Princess Ash¡af, who has kept close personal ties with Chinese leaders since the 1955 Bandung Conference, on a four-day tour of the "autonomous region" as part of her l2-day official visit to China.

"All requests were met," he said. "I could go into the streets in the daytime and film without any prohibition."

The only place he found fìlming banned was in one room of the Dalai I¿ma's old summer palace, "the master praying hall, where the Dalai I¿ma used to preach and receive other l¿mas." No reason was given for the prohibition.

There were signs of progress everywhere, and also signs of the Chinese presence: 'Of the one and a half million people in Tibet, easily one-half are Chinese, and half of the Chinese are members of the PLA. So the army is everywhere - in the fìelds, working on construction projects. Doctors are members of the PLA. "Before the Chinese took over the fact is, Tibet was one of the most backward places on earth," he said. Disease was rampant, as is evident today from Safa's observation that "the people who look healthy are the young people."

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There were many signs of prosperity. For example, Safa spoke with a family in a commune, which like the rest of Tibet now has electricty, virtually nonexistent in the old days. "The three members of the

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family earned something like $100 a month, which allows for a very good life."

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hear from you.

To all

appearances,

the people everywhere were

happy and friendly. But Safa is hesitant

to

draw

hard conclusions: "We had to do everything through Chinese interpreters. When we spoke to Tibetans,

another interpreter would be brought in. I did not know how freely people were speaking, and anyway, by the time I got the answers they had gone through

two interpreters."

"The change is easy to rcalize and feel - how Tibet has been projected from the most backward country into this current life," he said.

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Frank and a group of Asian colleagues, those he thought highest of, on the

Sóuth China Sea

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Frank Mariano Frank Mariano, award-winning ABC television in Indochina, was given a military burial August 13 in Washington's Arlington National Cemetery following a church service at which Roman Catholic and Buddhist priests offinews correspondent

ciated.

Mariano, 45, who left Hong Kong a year ago to undertake a fellowship in the United States, died of complications following heart surgery.

Prior to becoming a broadcast journalist in the late 1960s, Mariano served 13 yeats as a US Army pilot. He was twice shot down in helicopters over Viet Nam and held the Distinguished Fþing Cross for valor, the Bronze Star and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.

Mariano had not had the required length of military service to be eligible for burial at Arlington.

However, his former colleague in Indochina, David Hume Kennerly, now the official White House photo-

Hessel Tiltman HughHesselTiltman, dean of the Tokyo foreign press corps, who spent 42 years as a Correspondent in the Far East, died in mid-August aboard a cruise ship en route home from a European holiday. He was

79.

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan held a special memorial service for Tiltman Aug.

took the

case

to

President Ford. The

President issued an Executive Order permitting an

fulington burial for Mariano.

Among those attending the service who worked with Frank in Viet Nam were ABC's Ted Koppel, Steve Bell, George Watson, Kevin Delany and I¿ura

Palmer. Others included David Schoumacher of WMAL-TV in Washington, Bernard Kalb of CBS; Carl Robinson of AP, Don Hirst of Overseas Weekly, Haney Howell of ABC Radio and alarge number of Vietnamese now in the United States who also had worked with Frank in Indochina.

Frank is survived by his widow, the former Ann Bryan; daughters Jane Catherine, 6; Anna Francesca, 4; and son Tony, 19.

The family requested that in lieu of flowers, contributions be sent to the Frank Mariano Viet

Nam Children's Fund, C/O George Allen. The address is 5631 Potomac Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20016.

Mariano served in Indochina as a Correspondent between 1969 arl'd 1973. By Bert Okutey.

20 during which Tiltman was eulogized for a brilliant career ranging from coverage of the Spanish Civil War in 1938 to the Sino-Japanese

him the OBE for his

services in

promoting understanding between Britain and Japan.

At his death, Tiltman

tvas

a

hostilities prior to World War II and the postwar occupation of

Japanese affairs for the Encyclopae-

Japan.

dia Britannica. He previously had

Emperor Hirohito of Japan awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 1959 and Queen Elizabeth in the same year awarded

contributing editor and adviser on

been a correspondent for

The Guardian for many years and served as a special writer for the Washington Post.

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Among the debris collected from the August T-shirt Night wingding were several pairs of shoes, a few coats, a passport, assorted jewellery and Jack Worth.

Nearly 150 FCC members and guests turned up for the buffet

the Club the morning after

dinner which followed a free champagne hour in which the

Yes sir, it was a party...

Enteยกtainment Committee dispensed

with 40 bottles of rotgut which had clutteยกed up the storetoom.

Other revelers dropped in later for 15th floor merriment, which included dancing to music supplied by the "Revolver Disco" until the wee hours.

The photos herein will attest to the variety of T-shirts judged by a swacked panel headed by Arthur

Hacker, Russ Cawthorne, Brigid Snow and the aforementioned Worth.

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Club Stewaยกd Li'z Eckersley walked off with the "Arthur Hacker Worst Taste Award" while Melinda Xavier and the lovely Sam Weller were adjudged winners in the "Sexiest" category.

Bud Pratt took the prize for Best T-shirt made on Premises, which said simply, "Just Married." Bud and bride arrived at the Club following their wedding reception.

Bill Stevenson's tuxedo T-shirt was awarded the prize in the "Most Original" category.

Certain high-ranking Boaยกd mem-

bers were observed leaping about in advanced stages of St Vitus Dance during the disco session. Their only known previous form of exercise had been occasional trips to the men's loo.

The Correspondent, August 1976

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Another view of Viet Nam after the reunification In April 1975 Saigon frnølly capitutated to South Vietnamese rebels and their northern øllies sent south

by Hanoi Tizisno Terzani, correspondent for Der at the end of an era ofwar and the communìst govemment in South Viet

Spiegel was there

of

or the reunified Viet Nam as it is today.

Tiziano, a member of the Hong Ko¡tg of his thoughts and impresfrom recent newspøpq articles:

Saigon Some

On the veranda of the Continental Hotel overlooking the main square of Saigon, the foreign officers, the girls in elegant Western clothes, the long-haired children of the Saigon bourgeosie are gone now, replaced by young soldiers from Hanoi and peasants who have come to town as political commissars of the revolution. They sit in the same old yellow armchairs drinking the locally-made "33" beer or cafe filtre.

The hotel is no longer for private citizens or tourists. It is now the "Hotel ofthe Popular Insurrection," and it is exclusively reserved for official delegations and cadres coming from the North. The Miramar Hotel, which after GiaiPhong

- the liberation was taken over by the revolutionary government, is managed by a cadre appointed by the new authorities; but along with a stream of Vietnamese experts and political commissars arriving from Hanoi, it now houses a group of "obstinate" Saigon girls who still work at their classic trade, paid by the hour.

Untamed Saigon, one might think. But a visitor like myself, who left Saigon three months after the communist takeover and returns looking for places and persons he knew, soon realizes that the fìrst impression of an unchanged Saigon is false. Under the old hard skin of a city that has akeady survived so many upheavals life has been profoundly transformed, and the revolution is turning everything upside down, as it enters families, schools, factories and churches

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Life in Saigon has become much harder than it used to be. There is no starvation but peoþle eat less today than they did a year ago. They have to buy rice in addition to the quota sold by the Govemment at the offìcial price, and this cost three times more than in the past; milk costs six time more, cigarettes four times, beer twice more.

Thousands of the city's unemployed queue, sometimes for days, in front of the state-controlled stores to get goods at the offìcial price and then to sell them on the free market. A man who was queuing in front of the old Iß Loi Hotel, now turned into a government store, told me: "I get rice, salt, matches 10

sugar and cigarettes, but I don't smoke and with what

I make out of reselling the cigarettes, I pay for the rest'" {. {. * {. * The problems facing the Government of reunified

Viet Nam are immense: the South is

to

comforts

it

accustomed

can no longer afford; the north is thirsty for consumer goods it could not get during decades of war and sacrifices; but the slõw-moving economy has a limited industrial base. Morale ii sagging in both parts ofthe countrv. but for different reasons,

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A year ago one

sensed

that the coming of

peace

was itself a Ereat victory, but the

joy has evapoìated with the passing months. In the South peace has

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For the time being the Soviet Union might be called the Maecenas of Viet Nam, along wiin tfre other East European countries. While the Chinese are hardly visible, and maintain only a limited aid project, the Russians offer even more than the Vietnamese ask for.

States, hoping that Washington will help with the reconstruction of the country, that it will seize the opportunity to prevent Viet Nam from becoming a soviet econo."

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of being under the control of foreign protectors. Now Viet Nam is at last being reunifìed by Vietnamese - but it's not, as

Vietnamese (the government claims 6,000 a day) visit Ho's final resting

be enjoyed.

allowed inside, Wilson said.

police and masters

some might have expected, a peace that can easily

The economy is the new battlefield of Viet Nam. As a member of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi said to me: "It is our third resistance. We fought the first one against the French, the second against the Americans, notv we have to fight a new

war against our own underdevelopment.

The Bangkok Post

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and admirers. Jon has been "missing" for more than a month. Young Jon sweated through the years of Indochina with many of our local correspondents and made a distinctive mark for his daring and ingenuity. He was honored by his colleagues in Britain æ Journalist of the Year for his outstanding coverage of Cambodia. In the photo Jon and colleaguês examine a Meo home-grown hunting gun in the mountains of northern Laos during the height of the war in that country. Photo

æntinued from page 3

to the front; of

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IIOCATED? As your hnespondent went to press there were rcports that Britain's Joumalist of the Year, Jon Swain had been located in captivity with Ethiopian rebels and would shortly be escorted out of Ethiopia. Welcome news to his large number of friends, colleagues

What mainly impresses the visitor is how immense are the problems created by peace. For the first time in their lives most Southem Vietnamese can feel free of the old fears of being killed, bombed; -

called-up, sent

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posting

in

Vancouver, conducted

the interview in French. as Lenin's

in Moscow. Hundreds of

place daily but no photographs are

The Vietnamese leadership in

Hanoi made

themselves scarce during the CBC visit and the only interview granted was by Deputy

Foreign Minister Phan Hien, a 3O-minute session on the final day of the trip. Colin Hoath, who is soon leaving Hong Kong for a new The Conespondent, August 1976

The CBC crew was so closely watched that they could not check to see if the old black market stalls

on Saigon's sidestreets still existed,

but money-chalgers (US currency only, please) still lurk in the back rooms of certain _shops.

Wilson shot some 18,000 feet of film in Viet Nam for a 3O-minute

CBC special. Editing and scripting have been completed in Canada and

it is hoped the FCC will have a

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Ken Gott, on his way to New York from "the rock" for a new assignment, after being a 14th floor mainstay for years - and a past Board Member has -

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a chat with His Eminence at one of many farewell parties. Ken, his wife and daughter are looking forward to the change with, as Ken said, "Much

hope, and a most delightful people among us in the Club.

Suffer them, please.

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Covering Beirut and Damascus

I

met a few

MIDDLE EAST ANY TIME, WE WOULD RATHER WALK BACK ON FOOT TO HONG KONG AND THE EAST: Dennis Mullin, formerly with the China Mail and the FEER, now with US News and World Report, even offered: .,I would swim back to

Hong Kong!"

Don't ask me yet how Moscow compares to -Hong Kong I would rather Cheers

trepidation." Photo

by

Russ

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Yours faithfully, David I¿wton i

bit of

Cautthome

SAIGON

Bluntly said then - the Board rnøy kick them out it they're going tó be brats,

Speaking

of superfluous items . . .

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The saga of Chief Inspector Graham Whitely's

Dear Sir:

disasterous European holiday continues. Comes now word from West Sussex that the broken-ankled Whitely took an arse-over elbow tumble from a wheelchair in

his favorite pub and was decorated for a spell with sticking plaster in the worst places.

Word from CBS that John Harris, who so ably ran the New Mercury House show for CBS during the evacuation from Viet Nam of virtually the entire CBS offìce, and who made friends of everyone he met, is goming in to replace Keith Kay as producer. Delight-

Committee jobs.

not think about it. to all friends, and keep the fort in HK.

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Dietrich Mummendey FCC is trying to get back m" ela of all-male boozing

Dear Sir:

me

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nothing ever changes. There always are the

shows same

problems.

Of special interest was the article by HIS _ Eminence, Dick Hughes.

I always enjoy your club and I like to remember

thatlwasa SÉanghai. I Continue and see you

Sincerely, Earnest Hoberecht President

Oklatroma I¿nd Trust Watonga, Oklahoma

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back

not edit necessar

(No. 8, "dear"? One or the other of these ladies may undoubtedly be dear to him, but then ,ur.iy ,o are some of the men! Back again to eueen Victoria,s

times?

Yours sincerely, Anne Thaler

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MR. CHENG RETIRES Mr Cheng Yue Chak retired in August as the C'lub's C;ateing Manoger after neaþ 30 years in the

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Mr Cheng spent 21 years with Dairy Farm, which lw(dled the FCC catering in the first few yean after the FCC moved to Sutherland House from the Hilton He movd to the FCC in l9ZI. In addition to Mr Cheng's retirement benefits, the Board moved to award him with an extra six months' salnry "in view oÍ Mr Cheng's dedicated service."

He was honored at a recent staff party following a twoweek holiday.

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right ear and gear that is faster than either of the forward gears but has the disadvantage that I can't see where I'm

The former tells the life of a llO-year-old former American slave.

It stars Cicely Tyson, who ages some 100 years during the course of the program. She won an Emmy for her performance. Our version has some commercials but it remains worthwhile viewing.

"Blaang Saddles" stars Clevon Little as a sheriff hired by a Western town to protect it from the bad guys. Trouble is, Little is black and the folks who hired him don't Lnowii.

Also on Cassidy

water; a bre looks quite

by lan CYichton

But please remember: Members Onlyl

ack

parting the

Saddles".

going.

By using all three one after the other _

So there I was, pacing up and down thè deck in UIShJ orange trunks, shivering in the warm night.

1ny trVhy hadn't I taken up other sport, like

and

Ebów-

..the needle" fifting, or Throwing-the-Dice? (Signs of before great events, familiar to all we l6g-pound athletes.)

The awesome event wæ the fìrst heat of that wellknown pentathlon, the Swimming Test which qualifìes you to take the $300 diving course of the Seabragon Skindiving Club.

S "Midnight and the

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Serving the Nation 200 Years!

I didn't waste breath to explain that even if a shark were nibbling my toes I couldn,t have gone

classic

cop thriller . For nostalgia buffs,

for

rancisco

the

Academy

Award-win¡ing "Singin' in t wood in the 1920s starring

any faster.

in Hollyd Donaid

O'Connor.

We hope to have a few lunchtime and/or cocktail hour specials as well. But please: members only. It'r Government law in Hong Kong.

Ï.HE FORTS OF PHILADELPHIA have

Id

even trained for it on two successive Sunday trips in the Club's boat. I'd swam back to the boat from The Ninepins because I'd

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of

crucial role

in

the

economic development America since the Declaration

of Independence.

And are still doing so, because SERVICE is still our speciality!

for a

ten stone as soon as the bouyancy provided by my arms was lost. But, I told myself, it'll be all right on the

Ship through the Ports of

niCht.

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&

political

puzzled everyone at Po Toi water while apparently holdi

problem

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wasn't.

PHILADELPHIA

The night happened to be a foul one, with rain and wind whipping up the surface. It was bad enough when we l0 starters went on board at Kowloon in the dusk. But when we anchored near Junk Bay the referees decided that instead of a straight 200-meter course, justice would be served if we swam four times round the boat.

The Moment of Truth had arrived. I took off my

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AUTHORITY Voight and Hoffman in a sccne ftomlllùInight Øwboy, soon to appear on the 15th floor.

glasses.

Visions swam before me

of

pleasures soon to

LARRY BURROIVS' brilliant

book of insisted masks clashing

in a happy

pass.

seclusion betrayed only

by streams of super-heated bubbles. , As soon as I got into the dark water, reality struck home. With no effort on my part, some unsports14

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could take the tests again, and probably

was right. Who would want to

photos,

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a landlubber like me?

Published by Life Magazine after lús death, the book includes images caught by Burrows' camera tiom Angkor Wat to the Bengal tidal wave to Vietnam.

WANTED 1VANTED WANTED WANTED: Persons with a yen to try some of the finest beef and

lobster tail just about anywhere.

Call in at the l5th floor on the nights announced by the sign at the foot of the stairs. You'll be glad

you did. Reservations gladly

given

at the offìce.

The Ønespondent, August 1976

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Gentlepeople Caring for you comes natulalÌy to the girls of 'lhai. 'fhe gentle art of providing service and courtesy is one they learn from childhoocl.

But Thai is more than a pretty face. With orchids for each ìady passenger and connoisseur's cuisine, no other airline offers Royal Orchid Selvice.

Ileautiful'l'hai gentle people.

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