@llt [.otttßponùtnt April
1986
Board of C'overnors Election Jim Biddulph will be the next club president as he was the only candidate nominated for that post at the April 2 meeting.
After having worked for the BCC as a diplomatic correspondent, as well as in Afric¿ and in Asia, Biddulph now
All other positions on the board are being contested. The fiercest competition is for correspondent member governor posts where there are 11 candi-
runs his own news agency.
Biddulph expressed satisfaction with
the smooth running of the club under president Philip Bowring. "The FCC is one of the most famous clubs in the world - far eclipsing other clubs in the
dates for 8 positions.
By this time members should have received ballots in the mail, which must be returned by mail or in person not later than 2:30 p.m. Thursday May 15.
and all I can try to do is make Far East it even better," he said.
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Mr. Jim Biddulph.
Other winners when the votes are tallied will be Penny Byrne, who is the
associate member governor positions: Ken Bryan, Russell Cawthorne, Wendy Hughes and Tim V/illiams.
sole candidate for second vice president,
and the four candidates for as many
The winners, who will assume their responsibilities at the May 28 Annual General Meeting, will be posted on the club bulletin board as soon as the ballots are counted.
Candidates for The 1986-1987 FCC Board of Governors Office
Candirlates
President
Jim
lst Vice-President
Michael Malik
Far Eastern Economic
Lois Tretiak
Business
Biddulph
Byrne
Affiliation
Nominated
Freelance
Philip
By:
Bowring
Seconded By: Sandra Burton
Review Philip Bowring Sandra Burton Marcel Toussaint Mark Michelson
International
HK Tourist
Association
Bell
David Perkins
Hubert Van Es J.A.M. Malik Philip Bowring
Brian Jeffries Sandra Burton
David
2nd Vice-President
Penelope
Journalist Member Governors
Nicholas Beacroft Peter Cordingley Sarah Monks
R.T.H.K. TV Times
Paul Bayfield Marcus Brauchli Anthony Dyson Gavin Greenwood Barry Kalb
Far Eastern Economic Review
Freelance
J.A.M. Malik Hubert Van Es
Melanie Kirþatrick Dinah Lee Chris Pritchett
The Asian Wall Street Journal Economist Reuters Ltd. Handelsbatt Reuters Ltd. Asiaweek
Cheah Cheng-Hye Paul Sillitoe Graham Hillier Philip Bowring Graham Hillier Philip Bowring
Joe Manguno
HKSB Corporation
Hubert Van
Es Byrne Penelope Byrne Philip Bowring
Bert Okuley Sandra Burton Hubert Van Es
Correspondent Member Governors
Peter Seidlitz Paul Smurthwaite Burton Woodward Associate Member Governors
Ken
Bryan
S.C.M.P.
AP-DOW Jones Emphasis HK
Unicom News
RussellCawthorne GoldenCommunications
Hughes Williams
Wendy
Tim
Wendy Hughes Ltd. Lloyds Bank
Paul Sillitoe Philip Bowring Paul Sillitoe
Penelope
Cynthia Hydes
Gavin Greenwood Hubert Van Es Ian Findlay-Brown Brian Jeffries Murray Bailey Gavin G¡eenwood
Alan Thomas Paul Sillitoe
Alan Thomas Sandra Burton
Penelope Byrne
The FCC At Sea Miller's Marauders Make Manila Club president Philip Bowring headed a mighty exodus from the bar over Easter for the bi-annual Silk Cut China Sea Race to Manila. In fact, one wonders how the event could have taken place at all without our stalwarts: Bob Lavoo organised the race; ril'endy Hughes was in charge of public relations; Russell Cawthorne was whittering on the airways; and the sailors
included the likes of Mike Lunn, Fred Whitehouse, Ian Whalle¡ Keith Shakespeare, Mike Keats, Tony Scott, Simon
Martin, John Price, Mike
Westlake,
David Creffield, Uncle Tom Cobleigh, et al. But without doubt main interest centered on an unlikely bunch from the 17th floor aboard the good ship Marauder, skippered by Frank Miller.
auder, home for ten for at least five days (some thought ten), was also being meticulously prepared by Miller and men. Twenty cases of beer, eight bottles of whisk¡ two of vodka, one of rum and a special sixty-six-year-old Portuguese brandy were shipped aboard.
The chefs David "The
Sausage"
Gilhooly and Maestro Adriano Pinto Marques lovingly loaded the beef, legs of lamb, chickens, fresh fruit, garden new potatoes, a sprig of mint for sauce, the chilies for spice and the perfect wine to accompany every course. Lying somewhat lower in the water than most, Marauder's elegant red and white speed flash on her hull finally
slipped below water level as enough deisel for any eventuality was piped into her overloaded belly.
Among them was John Lenaghan, usually more at home wielding a four iron rather than a winch handle. His narration follows: Excuse the jerky writing. No, it's not caused by sexual athletics nor the trem-
The forecast was for Force Three winds moderating as we were wafted gently over the starter's line. "Look, his sail moved!", or "Has he got wind over there?" Even "Hope it's not like this all
ble of a bomb crater on some remote battlefield. The room is moving as a corked bottle on a stormy sea. One of
suddenly the world turned on its side. The seemingly immovable, bloated Marauder leapt into the foam of a mounting gale and sped offlike Pardon the son of Reprieve. Hanging on for grim death as
Miller's Marauders, I have just returned from the Silk Cut China Sea Race. And it's definitely true about sea legs and the 'sailor's gait.' In the tradition of Drake and Bligh, the doubting yachties, themselves of dubious experience, said it couldn't be
the way or we'll run out of
beer"...
the top few feet of every huge wave broke over the almost vertical deck, every fun seeker aboard gradually rea-
Former FCC president Hugh Van Es.
lised that ocean yachting is a deadly serious business.
it was like water-skiing typhoon while downstairs was
Upstairs through
a
in the words of David Creffield "like living in a washing machine". The stairs leading below were treacherous for everybody but worst for wee Gilhooly. When his hands were on the bulkhead handles his feet were 6 inches off the deck below. After one savage blow to the ribs he decided, whether through fear or to avoid doing any cooking, to stay on deck for two days and nights, and never went to the head for the duration of the voyage. In one of his few utterances, barely heard above the gale he said, "Ah mite doo this wunce but niver again!" There were various forms of sickness. The Jim W'atlington green-for-two-days
done. Shakespeare and Keats are recorded as having said "It'11 be a miracle if
Marauder arrives in Manila". In truth half of the gallant Marauders
had not previously been on a yacht. Preparations were largely centred on victuals and booze. Flopping about in the sparkling clear waters of Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, boats were festooned with flags, bilges were being pumped, sails repacked and stored, life lines made taut, safety equipment checked, water
tanks filled to allow a daily ration of precious but heavy liquid, bosons chairs were hoisted for top rigging and final taping of anything to snag a spinnaker, wives and lovers were saying last farewells from a crowded wharf.
Amid this industrious harbour Mar-
"Miller's Marauders" - David Crffield, Iøn Findlay-Brown, skipper Frank Miller David Gilhooly and John Lenaghan.
look, the Lenaghan scramble for leeward, the professional style of Palfrey and Miller, the I'11-live-in-it-or-run-head-
first-through-the-bulkhead version of
Ian Findlay-Brown, the funny, I'mnever-seasick-forthright-Firth-fashion and the Jack Glattback bark.
Not much food or drink was
con-
sumed over those first frightening forty-
eight hours. Only two men stood tall while others slopped and slithered around them. "Iron Guts'Creffield kept eating prodigious quantities of spiced Portuguese sausage and quaffing gallons of ale and red wine, the extent of his emissions being gale competing blasts of wind when awake or sleep. Adriano who, to the admiration of all, stayed below decks and kept Creffield supplied.
But the marauders came through. Despite two wasted days, the food and booze was tรฅckled with great gusto and .We with determination. exhausted all supplies just as Corregidor came into view. We had made it! There were three cheers for the skip-
per from a grateful creq three
cheers
for Adriano the cook who had sailed in a plaster body cast after severely injuring his spine in practice, and congratulations and backslapping all round. Celebrations
were interrupted by five other sails appearing around us and we were involved in a race for the line up Manila Bay. Palfrey set the course for the finish and kept announcing a distance which was seemingly further away every minute. The Palfrey mile it was unanimously decided is slightly longer than an Irish stonesthrow.
It
was then discovered by sophisticated communication systems, (hollering from one boat to another), that the
Rugby Sevens The day before the Rugby
rocked Hong Kong Stadium, Australian rugby legend Mark Ella treated club members to some insights about himself and the game at a club luncheon.
Now retired from plaยก Ella was part
of the Australian team that took the Grand Slam in 1984. In Hong Kong he said he was frequently stopped on the street by enthusiastic fans who mistook
Exchange Lunch Shortly before the
April2 opening of
the unified Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Director Ronald Li addressed a packed club luncheon where he gracefully deflected sceptical questions about the long-awaited venture.
Li
While regretting that changes were afoot in the largely amateur sport, Ella said he felt the agitation for better com-
pensation
for
players was justified.
"'W'e're not asking
for a lot," he
"W'e're just asking for what's fair."
said.
Ella dismissed the Australian bid to eclipse the Hong Kong Sevens by holding a competition prior to the territory's April match as "aggressive marketing."
"There's no doubt in our mind Hong Kong comes first," said Ella, whose visit this year marked his seventh appearance at the competition. "The people of Hong Kong have no worry about New South
ril'ales trying to dominate the Sevens. I'd tell them where to go."
said he hoped that a unified ex-
change would encourage mid-sized companies to turn to the market to raise
capital. "The stock exchange is meaningless unless it serves as a conduit to support industrยก" he said. "If not, it's nothing more than a gambling casino."
He also dismissed the conventional wisdom that Hong Kong's markets were more prone to dramatic fluctuations those of other countries. He said because of the small number of companies listed on the exchange, fluctuations are simply more apparent.
Li, who founded the Far East Stock Exchange, said he hoped the unified exchange would further enhance the sop-
histication
of Hong
markets.
yacht neck and neck with us in a sprint for the finish was captained by a woman. The male chauvinistic pride of our seemingly unflappable skipper shot to the surface, and shouting something like
Kong's financial
Mark Ella and Philip Bowing.
David Russell Lange, the pugnacious
lawyer who became New Zealand's prime minister in 1984, dropped by the FCC on a Saturday afternoon, to hold a press conference at which he fielded
questions ranging from the health of Deng Xiaoping to prospects for a nuclear-free zone in lhe Pacific. Lange had just completed his first official trip to China, and was on a stopover in Hong Kong en route to Manila to meet Cory Aquino.
"Goodbye darling. See you in Manila,"
he promptly lost control of a difficult tack, almost jibed the boat and lost our little battle with a great lady. What makes a bunch of seemingly
The press conference, on March 29, drew a big crowd of local and foreign reporters. On Deng's health, Mr. Lange reported that the Chinese strongman hoped to live until the year 2000, but he "would settle for five days after a certain date in 1997."
sane grown men, average age 42 years, suddenly do something dangerous and reckless like sailing in an ocean race? God knows but perhaps that man of words Gilhooly summed it best: "1986 will go doon as thi year ah gi up ocean
racin!"
Sevens
I
him for his brothers, the equally famous rugby stars Glen and Gary.
The 40-minute press conference was arranged by the FCC with the assistance of New Zealand's commissioner in Hong Mr. Ronald Li.
Kong, Frank Muller.
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Board Resolution The club Board of Governors have passed a resolution disputing the condi-
tions under which Reuters' Singapore correspondent Marilyn Odchimar was expelled after government authorities found a story she wrote to be "irresponsible" and damaging to Singapore's image overseas. Odchimar reported on March 18 that a survivor of the Hotel New World col-
lapse had heard
a
rescuer demand
a nearby woman before he extricated her from .the rubble.
money from
Odchimar, who had the statement on tape, interviewed the man three times to verify his allegation but was unable to talk to the woman, who had died.
Congratulations !
checking with rescuers or authorities.
While regretting the story included no comment from authorities, Reuters Asian Editor Ian Macdowall defended Odchimar saying: "Miss Odchimar
is
neither a psychologist nor a government servant. It was not her function to assess the survivor's mental condition or to protect the image of Singapore by surpressing the allegation." The resolution reads: "The Board of the FCC views with concern the explusion from Singapore of Reuters correspondent Marilyn Odchimar. It is particularly disquieted at the reason given for this action." The year has been a rough one for correspondents. Indonesia did not renew
The Singapore government claimed the man was incoherent and delirious
the employment visa of Far
when interviewed. The government further charged that Odchimar "made no attempt to verify the facts" through
coln Kaye and its stringer Paul Handley, who also worked for the Italian news agency INSA.
Eastern
Economic Review correspondent Lin-
The editor of thß publication Lesley Hargreaves has taken a brief leave of absense to coo oyer her beautiful new daugher Julia, who was born April 8 at Matilda Hospital. The graceful 5 lb 14 oz baby is
the third daughter
for
the Hør-
greayes clan, which includes lone
male Alan.
Puttíng ít together Editor-Danelle Morton Tel: 5-234438 Newsletter Liaison
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Michael
Malik (FEER) Tel: 5-8936688
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