The Correspondent, March 1988 by The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong

CONTENTS

THE VOLUME

Credibility. When working to a tight deadline, every reporter can do with a little luck. People often say the best correspondents have a sixth sense for being in the right place at the right time. That's true, although what people are really talking about is experience and a lot of careful ground work. But even luck, or the sixth sense, has limitations when it comes to the solid, week-to-week reporting that a ne\rysmagazine must provide. Access, for example. Luck doesn't get you the first interview Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad gave to the regional press following the Internal Security Act arrests last October. Nor does it obtain the first session with President Ershad of Bangladesh after the political agitation there. Nor the first with new Philippine Armed Forces Chief Renato de Villa, nor a rare talk with Chinese dissident Wang Ruoshi. All of those, I'm proud to say, ran recently in Asiaweek. That sort of access is earned through the years, the hard way. It can most important only come from a tradition of fair, balanced and accu- best- Of speaking to the rate reporting. Of double- and triple-checking facts. informed people, of getting the widest possible range of views. And then, after all that, going back and asking yourself what you've left out, how it could be better. I like to think that this is the kind of reporting Asiaweek has come to be known for. Certainly it is the kind our readers demand from us. And, I feel, it is the real reason Asiaweek correspondents enjoy such trusted access to the region's newsmakers. Ring -David Chief of Correspondents

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As he was preparing to step down as South Korea's head of state, Chun Doo Hwan set a good precedent by inviting foreign correspondents to lunch and talks.It was his first meeting with the media, and he turned out to be an affable host, says John McBeth.

CORRDSPONIIENT

Herb Caen, the venerable

- the Movers Marauders. They got routed and creamed and trounced. And why not? It was the first time they wielded a bat or fondled a softball, let alone pþ the game. (see P.lO) name

Cover It was the Great Leap Year Forward. And the ladies simply took over all matters

Former British prime minister, Edward Heath, was in Hong .White Kong when the Paper on representative government was released. He talked atlength about his views on the document and on other subjects at a brealdast meetting at the Club.

Francisco Chronicle columnist, dropped by the FCC recently, and regaled members with his impressions of Hong Kong, and how he started out in the trade as the all-time greenhorn.

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I was indeed in attendance

shot (matched only, in my opinion, by Penny Byrne's superb collection of tiger pix taken at the Calcutta

Taxidermists' Society Christmas ball). Hubert was also Present at the actual game which took place in earþ February, so readers can look forward to further examples of the work of one of the Club's leading recorders of the pictorial record. Peter Bennett The resþonsibility for the þicture

quality should not be attributed entirely to Van Es. There were mnny laclors olher lhnn his onn ability - among thern the weather, the þrocessing of black-

and-white þrints from colour at the practice session slides and the act of God at the baseball ground. which contributed to the result. I was there with my wife, my Fu.Yther examþles of Van Es' in-laws from Toþo, my mother who had come up from work aþþeør on P. 10, 11, 15, 16 and 17. Bennett would now Queensland and a distant realise tfuù these other factors cousin who had flown in from and, of course, C,od, dD Penge especially for the sometiTnes act in a mysterinus occasion. They are there for way. all to see in the third row in Editor Hubert's magnificent group

periodical, and by his own admission, that Mr Anthony Dyson had recently suffered from a frisson. Being an old and caring friend of the Digger's could I implore him to bear in mind his customary physical state and avoid such excitement in future. A simple tone-up will keep him content - and others, too. Geoffrey Somers

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Truth uncovered Seeing double again MY query about the uncanny resemblance between Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang and Beijing correspondent of the For ùtslern Frmomh Reuiew,, Robert DeHs, still remains

I HAVE at last discovered reason for TV & unanswered (C. Dec. '87). But now I notice an equally uncanny resemblance between

Entertainment Times' and its editor Peter Cordingley's obsession with rny hair. A

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Reuter's new man in Beijing, Bill Kazer. Are they

photographin The Corresþondent (Nov.'87) reveals that Cordingley suffers from advanced baldness which

relateC?

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No bouquet GEOFFREY SOMtrRS (Wine Slobbery, C. Dec. '87) really should know better than to suggest that correspondents and flacks like myself don't

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get up to drink the Beaujolais Nouveau when it hits the barlop. On such an occasion, we would never dream of going to bed in the first place! The strainings of the supine sumo's sweaty supporters will

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In his first-ever press conference with foreign coffespondents, Chun Doo Hwan, in his last days as president of South Korea, discovers that the foreþ press corps is not a bad lot to meet.

HE reputation of Western journalists may be such that some Asian leaders, or more probably the

people around them, lear they will

automatically act like the pack that snaps at the heels of Ronald Reagan. Generally unburdened by the niceties that still prevail in relationships between Asian officialdom and the domestic press, they are much more likely to ask the sort of embarrassing questions the man in power would prefer not

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LETTERS So we can look for-ward

to an

increase in the waspish attacks on those members of our

community who indulged a little too generorsly in the festive fare. For those who are waiting with bated breath for my next tonsorial creation, it is likely to be a delicate shade of lilac in the form of a shoulderlength pageboy bob.

Ted Thomas

Welcome, but. ALTHOUGH I was pleased to welcome the new magazine it would have been nice if the brief{ived yet thoroughly entertaining gossip column had survived the Caesarean. It kept one rather more in touch with, and amused by, the people and personalities of Hong Kong than Ted Thomas (whom God preserve) and his memories of Roberl Maxwell or Matt Monro. Andrew Maywood Twickenham, Middlesex, UK

A fine job JUST seen the new Corresþondent on my return home from an extended trip to Europe. The magazine is great, a professional house

publication that we've been hoping to see for years. Congratulations for your fine job. Eddie Wu Silver Spring, Md. USA

Read on the war front V/HILE on assignment in the United States in December, took time to visit erstwhile main bar regrlar Angus

MacSwan, the Reuter's correspondent in El Salvador. As coincidence would have it, the first issue of the new{ook Corresþondent arrived in the mail at the San Salvador villa where Angus and his wife Keiko iive. Angus fondly remembers many an evening spent with FCC friends before his

Keep'em coming Congratulations. The new

to answer.But as South Korean president, Chun Doo Hwan, discovered at his first-ever press conference for foreign correspondents, it is

SWITCH OFF, PLEASE THE Club staff have received an increasing number of commplaints lately about the use of portable telephones in

the restaurant and the bar

departure in September 1986 and we thought you might like to include the enclosed picture in the magazine. It shows myself and Angus (holding magazine) sitting on a pavement along what passes

for the main road in the town of El CanizaT. As the slogan on the wall behind us indicates, the left-wing guerrillas are fighting to overthrow the government in

that Central American country. Grant A. McCool

area. The common complaint

is that use of portable telephones is a nuisance i4 the bar area and the restaurant that can be avoided, The number of complaints

has reached such

proportion that the matter

has been brought before the

Board of Governors for

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conference had been around

for months

and, when it was finalised, Information Ministry officials were almost breathless with anticipation. Take the Hong Kongbased correspondent who got a call out of the blue inviting him, so he thought, to a very private tête-à-tête with the president.

joining the party as well. It all took carefirl preparation, of course - right down to a special briefing at the

placed in convenient corners on every floor for members to make or receive calls without upsetting others.

Anyone who may find an

unavoidableneed to speak on

workroom. Your understanding and

portable telephones are advised to switch off the equipment, iÎ they do carry one, when they are in the club, Club telephones are

the club premises. Owners of

month. Keep up the great

Mt. Kisco New York

colleague of his good fortune that he realised there would be 102 other correspondents

the portablephone may do so

effort and professionalism. Alan Khoo

Thus a decision has been taken to prohibit the use of portable telephones inside

very good. I look forward to its arrival each

Corresþondent is

not such a bad experience after all, if you are as George Bush was in his conconfident frontation with CBS anchorman Dan Rather that the circumstances are weighted in your favour. He may also have learnt that foreign newsmen who live and work in Asia do not feeltheyhave quite the stake in things and as does the lVhite House press corps are probably far more polite. Talk of a presidential luncheorVpress

only in the foyer and the

cooperation will appreciated by all.

It was only after he informed a Seoul

detector

with their

recorders

their

pockets. Then there was the jewellery alert. On bus No. 2, reporters were told to move their rings to their left fingers, apparently to guard against poisoned handshakes. Those on the other buses were not given the same warning, so consequently this guest, among others, was armed and potentially dangerous as he clutched the presidential hand during

farewell formalities. Comfortably seated at an array of tables under five glittering chandeliers, the correspondents were given their final instructions. "Iwill announce the presidentis enteringthe hall and I hope (was there a doubt?) that you will rise and give a big hand to the president," counselled a Blue House aide. "Only one follow-up to each question will be accepted." Minutes later, the president duly entered, stage right, in a dark-grey suit. It was possible to sense a visible sigh from officials when everyone stood and applauded. Chun is usually pictured as grim, stiff and remote. But here was he relaxed and smiling. Korean newspapers were also to make particular note of the fact that instead of sitting alone, the president took his place at a head table occupied by six privileged members of the Fourth Estate.

the

smoked

downtown Press Centre before the guests

were escorted aboard three buses for the short ride to the heavily guarded Blue

scoopingthe entire room. When that subject ran its course, he wanted to know where

JE\ryEttERY ALERT:

But Blue

House security is perhaps not quite as vaunted as it appears. least two correspondents

walked unhindered through the metal

ticism, his concluding comment did not go unnoticed. "I trust," he said, "that you will be reporting more on the bright and positive aspects of ow situation." Questions followed. Although the legitimacy of his mle, the bloody 1980 Kwangju incident and fears of future miïtary intervention were predictable topics, it was believed to be the first time he had been called on to discuss them at a public gathering. Ei-

ther for this reason or because of the mere noveþ of the event itself, the press conference was to produce headlines in the Korean newspapers and occupy fully 35 minutes of the Korean Broadcasting System's hour{ong evening news show. Chun probably raised the most eyebrows when he talked about his "liberation" from the demands of the presidency and went on to describe himself "as the one citizen of my courtry who is most deprived of that valuable commodþ - personal freedom. " More tha¡ a few commentators would later point out that the almost 2,000 political prisoners still languishing in his jails would probably have great difficulty swallowing that particular contention. APRECEDDNT?Still, officials professed to be

AN AFFABTE HOST: Through

salmon, the onion soup and the chateaubriand bearnaise, served on white china with the blue presidential seal, Chun proved a surprisingly affable host. He had developed a liking for cheese during his trip to France, he told Reuter's bureau chief, Roger Crabb, who, to those out of earshot, was by now

House - a complex in the northern suburbs which few had ever seen, let alone visited. There was consternation from the outset when it was belatedly learned that tape recorders would not be allowed in the banquet hall.

often as he wor¡ld have liked. For a president

who has taken more than his share of cri-

shor¡ld he go if he wanted to holiday in Britain? Crabb, for some reason, thought Scotland would be a nice place. N0TEWORTHY: Over coffee, Chun smoked a cigarette in a holder; according to those who know him, he developed the habit dwing his service as a regimental commander in the

Vietnam War. Then he delivered a brief opening statement, during which he said he foreþ press as

regretted not meeting the

very pleased at the way things went. Now that a good precedent had been set, they thought there would be more access under the incoming administration of thenewpresident Roh Tae Woo, who has been spend-

ing a lot of time these days honing

his

commonman image. Indeed, not so long ago, an American securities analyst was surprised to run across him having a quiet dinner with a group of students in a downtown kalbi house. There may be every reason to believe him when Roh says the Blue House will be a different place after he takes up residence. He

even holds out the populist promise of "strolling ín the grounds with ordinary citiThis correspondent is already making plans for a picnic there. After all, it's a nice spot and there is a lot of parkland. zens. "

John McBeth is the chief of the Far Easletn Economic Reoîew's Bureau in S¿oul

MARCH 1988 THE CORRESPONDENT 7

CLIJB NEWS

CLUB NEWS

fu able man is Caen

worttr about half a column too. But the

For over 50 years he has kept the folk of San Francisco's Bay Area in touch with their city. Six times a week the 72-yær-old Herb Caen's column runs in the fu'n Francßco Ckronbl¿. Visiting Hong Kong in February in connection with the San Francisco Week celebration, Caen took time off to honorr an invitation to lunch and laughter at the FCC. It was vintage Caen, as the following excerpts show.

which is going to be 71-72 storeys. We watch bamboo shoots up that go up day by day I don't understa¡d how that works. Obviously it works, because nothing's fallen over yet.

Last night there was a wonderful light show along the warefront' The dragons up there on those large buildings? How do they do that? Is that laser beams or what? There's nothing like that in San Francisco. I was going to talk about the difference between the two cities but they're actually quite similar. We're overbuilt, you're overbuiit. We have sewage problems that we don't talk about, we have sewage disposal plants all over the crty but they don't work

didn't go into a lot of deep resea¡ch in Hong Kong. I thought this was mainly a city for eating, shopping, banking and so forth, but there's a culturai side to this city that some people aren't aware of. We've been to the Volvo every night. We've

either.

Your president mentioned 1931 as my starting, you were probably expecting a much older man, weren't you? Actually, I started in 7932,I was 16 and I got a job on

done 1997, Mad Dogs, Disco Disco, You name it, all these places. We've found that there's a yuppie part of Hong Kong that even the cab drivers don't know about. There's also a gay part. The yuppie and the gay part' they're close together, they're called guppies here I think. We went into one guppie bar, didn't feel enough like home, so we went back to 1997. That's a wonderful, dramatic na-è for a disco; should be a lot of dancing I'm sure, that year, one way or another. We're staying at the Regent. It was highly recommended by the manager of the Regent. You'il love our rooms. You'lì love our view. It's mesmerising, I mean just stand

the paper in Sacramento, the capital of Cati

fomia. Wonderful flat city with trees and

wonderful boy-wonder editor named Patil C

year. Press

Club. Here there are people taking notes ard taping. There may even be television cameras or radios, who knows. The San Francisco Press Club is made up entirely of insurance agents and thousands of members. Are there any insurance agents here? Our Club is falling apart literally and also figuratively. We have a few old-timers, they're out in the reading room, reading old papers. We also have four newspapers in San Francisco. Two of them died, but it took several years before we realised it. We don't have a foreign correspondents' club because we don't have any foreign correspondents. You know, we have 600,000 circulation without any foreigr staff. We've just established our first overseas bureau in Toþo. Mike Burger, who's in charge of it, is the complete bureau. His assignment is

the Pacific. He's probably flying now from somewhere to somewhere. The Chronide's nm as a very tight ship. People who own it S

trencu

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legendary figure, drank himself out, The Chronbl¿. We were the fourth paper in a four-paper town and he got it up to second. He appointed me a coiumnist to write about San Francisco when [was22, something like that, 1936-37 anyway. I was excited to write about San Francisco. I loved San Francisco. I was mad about it, really in love, like with a woman, crazy alnul that girl, cily. He said, "I want you to write about it once a week or so." I said, "Oh no, every day!" "Every day? A column on San Francisco? Smith,

but he revived

there gazng out on this wonderful scene. More shipping goes by that window in 10 minutes than you see in San Francisco Bay

This is unlike the San Francisco

parks and nothing eise. I was on the police beat so I got a lot of sleep.

After four years on The Union, I graduated, I guess that's the word, to the Chronhl¿ in Sa¡ Francisco. They had a

1n a

are very rich. It's a famiþ-owned paper and we're all like members of the famiþ. We call each other Uncle this and Cousin that. The Editor is Uncle Dick and the owner is Uncle George. When you go to ge{- a raise they say, "Herb, you're a member of the famiiy, you want more money? We're going to take care of you." Paternalistic. This is the first place I've been wam sinc I've been in Hong Kong, thanks to these lights. You see the Regent doesn't have heat.

fhey've got a thermostat, but there's no lever on it. It's just cold or colder. The marager, of course, is from Switzerland and

. . I don't know where he thinks he is, but. . . He's a cold one, that

he thinks it's.

feilow. So we shiver and shake and look out tl-re window and every day there's a new building. I'm {ascinated bY Mr Pei's building -

It's a nice town, but you think it's worth

column every day?" I said, "Yes I do." So that got me stuck. I first started writing seven columns a week for about three years, I was crazy, but I was doing a Walter Win-

chell imitation, Winchell being the king of columnists in those days. He invented threedot journalism, which is what I'm still addicted to. Short sentences, three dots. Winchell was the king of that. Winchell was a night man, tbllowed police cars, had a red light and a siren on his car, so I did the same thing in San Francisco and became really ridiculous. I had a red light and siren and the choms girls, camel's hair coat and a Cadillac convertible. I mean I was really living and the cily was worth about half of that. It was

column turned out to be 1,000 words every day and it stayed that way. It's still a 1,000 words every day, six days a week. I don't know how I got rid of that seventh column because that was about 2,000 words on Sunday. There's only so much you can say about San Francisco, or even Hong Kong, I guess, for that matter. My first scoop was exposing a gambling joint in the Tenderloin. Talk about green. I was 21. I'm walking down Turk Street, .¡¡hich is a street of ill-repute to say the least and I walk into a bar, people were gambling in the back room. I can't believe my eyes rotilette, blackjack-and so fofth. I ran back to the paper a¡d I wrote this story about it. There's good gambling on Trrk Street and the police captain called up and said, "You dumb kid, new we're going to have to raid the damn place." The police ran the town in those days. The mob tried to take over San Francisco, they were kicked out immediately at the airport or at the railroad station by the police. So I wrote the story, they raided tlie place, and I was very proud of myseìf. So I walked back to look in there the next night and the g'ambler who owned the joint, his name was Joe Bernstein, the silver fox of Turk Street, said "Hey kid, that was quite a scoop you had today." I said, "Thank you, Mr Bernstein. Very nice of you to say that." He said, "Let me buy you a drink, come on in." So I went in, sat in a booth and three hoods sat on either side of me and brought me a drink and they watched me so closely as I was drinking and even I from Sacramento, the green-horn

the worst. People die on a Mickey Finn and can understand why. It's a horse laxative. I excused myself rather hastily and I made it home just in time, a¡rd what a terrible night; and they were sure I wasn't going to be able to write a column the next day. But I crawled

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down to the Chronicl¿ and somehow wrote a¡other column. Then I walked by the same place the next night and Bernstein was standing out in front surprised to see me. He said, "How ya doing kid?" I said, "Great." And that was the end of that story.

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April in FCC YOU have seen the Night of Passion, the fashion show from Down Under, the New Year celebrations...and the Ladies Night. But wait... Another funpacked evening is in the making. The Club will mark its sixth year of residence at the old icehouse with a gala evening on Friday, April 22. The Entertainment Committee is finalising plans and details will soon be in the mail. So, mark your diary for that evening of exotic food, booze and fun.

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Receiving his victory cup Ed Moose of the Washington Square Bar & Grill with Trans China -International's sales manager Paul Bouler (Ieftl and managing director Andrew Wood (right)

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with a softball and bat for that first time while the Washbaggers fielded a veteran team. And as ace scout (in baseball terms, that's a spy) Hugh Van Es reported (after he had meandered through the Washbag camp taking pictures), they seeded the team with four semi-pros from the US and one flown in

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the spods pages, a real shellacking, a rout. The Movers Marauders - that was the name of the combined F.C.C./American Club softball team which so bravely met San Francisco's Washington Square Bar & Griìl challenge - were soundly trounced, creamed and hammered. Aside from that bit of bad news, the evening was a riproaring success. Thanks to our sponsors, the moving company Trans China International ( they provided the T-shirts, souvenír mugs and victory cup, and their sales manager Paul Bouler not only helped organise the event, but managed to secure the hamburgers, hot dogs and, best of all, 150 litres of San Mig), the party lasted late into 10

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the night as the hard core studiously worked to finish off the last drop of beer before sun-up.

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CLUB NEWS That is the feeling that we in Europe have now got to face up to for the next century and very quickly indeed - in technology, in culture, in our general approach to world

Elections in Hong Kong...there's disappointment atl round Conservative PartY backbencher Edward Heath, who as British prime minister established full diplomatic relations between Britain and China \n 1972, was in Hong Kong when the White PaPer on representative government was released last month, He came as a member of the Public Review Board of the accountants firm Arthur Anderson to attend its qua,:ter-

in 1988. I know that there are many people in Hong Kongwho also supported thatview and have already expressed that view, and wanted to have direct elections during this present year. Well, that the White Paper has not given us. It is a firm commitment in 1991. Some of us would, therefore, be disappointed at this fact. DISAPP0INTMENT ALL ROUND: So there's disappointment on both sides. But for those of us who are disappointed, we must recognise that this is a firm commitment and that we have the timebe tween now and 1991 to ensure that ail our preparations are made

leaving for Toþo to

address a answer a gathering and breakfast at tête-à-tête The few questions. "this ungodlY what Heath termed hour" was both informative and entertaining. ExcerPts:

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MAY iust sav a few words about l-hose *rings" wtriõn are obviously fore-

in your mind at this moment and in the'minds of the people of Hong Kong. n the White PaPer. we must, first of all, makes Provision for direct elections. The fact that it does commit Her Majesty's Government and the Government of Hong Kong firmly to direct elections is the major feature of the White Paper; and that, surely, we can all welcome' I recognise fuÌl well that there are some people in Hong Kong who don't want direct èl"c1ion.. They will be disappointed. I hope

-osi

they will

apart from our debates on this in the House

of Commons

that by the time the - itand can be carried through

event arrives,

srnoothly, speedily and satisfactoriþ and in a democraticway in which the decisions will be accepted by everybody who takes part. This is not a decision which Hong Kong has had to face before, and it's not a very easy one.

Well, this is all part of the machinery of government when we start on this path. I hope, therefore, that in the intervening period of debate and discussion, concentration can be put on the way ahead in as smooth a way as possible and that there can

on influencing

those involved towards the view which each of us may hold... I hope that those with varying opinions will concentrate on producing the best result for Hong Kong. The government has said, quite rightiy, that there are many other things to be done, and this is also set out ir the White Paper in a leneral way. This is very true indeed, a¡d there must be

concentration

a great deal of work ahead during this period in dealing with all these other matters and in discussing them with the

recognise

accept it

others to effectively as possible' The second aspect of it is the timing. When we debated this in the House of Commons, I pressed my haven't alter then what I said in 1984, that we were going to move towards direct elections in Hong Kong and the earlier we moved, the better' I urgèd ttrat there should be direct elections

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authorities, and getting them put into effect at the best possible time. T00LITTLETIME: I arn, sometimes obsessed with time. We have now got only nine years left to 1997. We've only got 12 years ieft to the end of this century and when people say to me, why are you pressing for

this, why are you pressing for that, it'll come in the next century, I then saY to

affairs. And Europe has got to recreate itself, not only from the economic point of view which it is trying to do by 1992 with the one market, but also from the point of view of security and its political or ganisation. And if you sometimes think that you have problems about political development,

them, yes, the next century's only 12 years away. And 12 years is all too little time, espe ciaiþ in industry. To invent a new material or product, to research it, develop it, build the machinery to produce it, train people to work the machinery, get the sales drive going, get the publicity going, and finally seil the thing, having raised the money to do it all. Twelve years is a normal period for the Japanese, who do it as fast as anybody. And so when I'm told, yes, let's wait for the next century, the next century is only one product away in my mind. And that's why

assure you it's nothing like the problems of bringing 12 different countries,

let me

12 different languages and 330 million people together on a democratic system as to how they should govern themselves in

the 21st century. But I just q¡ant to thank you again for

entertaining me here and giving me the opportunity of saying these few words to you. And above all, to assure you, if there is any doubt in your mind, that the interelst in Hong Kong by so many of us in Parliament is not waning, not in the least, and it won't. The interest will always be there and our care for the people of Hong Kong.

I've urged so strongly that we should always bear this in mind here in Hong Kong.

I'd just like to say one final word about Hong Kong and then one other word about our general situation.

QUESTION:

I want really to congratulate Hong Kong on the way it has faced the difficulties since Black Monday (the stock market crash of Oct. 19, '87). That was a shock to the whole world. But Hong Kong has kept its head. The way it may have shaped it from time to time may have been controversial, but it has kept its head. And I've always had complete confidence in Hong Kong ever since I first knew it in 1969. It has so many able people, tre-

HEATH:Yes, I would not accuse the British Goverrrment of being dishonourable in any way at all. The question of institutions and the speed at which we make progress is one which is open to perfectly honourable

- is under discussion here in Hong Kong the same way. And I've expressed my view in Parliament. Nobody accused us of being dìshonourable in any case. So I certainly wouldn't accuse ihe British government of being dishondiscussion

mendous capacity, it is so hardworking, it is so persistent that I've never had any doubt whatever that it witt always be successful. Forme, thatis characteristic of Hong Kong. That has to be true after 7997 and into the

entering a new period of history and iL's going to be the Pacific which is going to

The White Paper allows

lian pavilion. There were some very nice

QUESTION:

pictures of the Vatican and the Pope, and one or two reproductions of paintings and rather nice silk scarves for ladies. And there weren't many young Japanese there. A¡d then we went to the Beþan pavilion. There was the king's palace outside Brussels, a picture of the cathedral and some rather

years for the deveiopment of the system of

do.

think it Toþo from' Beijing. I was told by the Beþan prime

YESTERDAY, TODAY, T0M0RR0W:I

ourable.

produce the civilisation of the 21st century.

THE CENTRE 0F GR0WTH:

said now we must see the European community pavilions. And we went to the Ita-

And it's a pretty big task. But it's the confidence which is shown which made so much impact on me travelling as much as I

next century.

United States, it has become quite apparent because the major part of American trade has swung to the Pacific, and away from the Atlantic and away from Europe. And this now is the centre of growth.'So many people, when I'm in the Pacific in different countries, say to me, the future lies with us. Europe was agreat civilisation - wonderful paintings, splendid music, glorious literature, architecture... Yes, that was all very fine, but that's past. And now, we're

British

responsibilities to the people of Hong Kong?

ABLE PEOPLE:

The other thing is, the Pacific is now the centre of world economy and growth. I teli you quite frankly that in Europe and in the United Kingdom this is not yet fully realised. But in the

Do you think the

Government is honourably dis charging its

was two years ago

came to

minister that there's a splendid world exhibition there. lVe hadn't heard about it in Europe at all. Nobody had told us, nobody bothered. And I said I must go and see the world exhibition. So I went. Fortymiles out on a superb new highway. Wonderful ex hibition centres, And what did I find? A great display of films, robots and so forth. What is it about? Life of the young Japanese in the next century... We haven't moved into the next century. And then, having spent the day there, I

nice tapestries, 16th cenhry tapestries. Well, there weren't very many young Japanese looking at that. And finally, we came to the British pavilion and I said, now this is going to be the dominating thing. Ærd sure enough it was, because there at the entrance was a Yeoman of the Gu.ard. In

fulI unitbrm. Not live, mind you. That would be too expensive. Plastic. And so we went on. There was an English pub. English people drinking English beer outside. All þlastic. Very clever! There weren't many young Japanese interested in that.

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direct elections in Hong Kong which will bring it up to after the Basic Law has been published. Can the British Government be sure that the direct elections will be meaningful in Hong Kong?

Well I, for one, have every deterrnination that of course they should be meaningfui. The whole process must be meaningful and there are many, many like myself in Parliament who take ex actþ that view. They may have differed from me in saying that they think 1991 is better than 1988. But everybody who wants direct elections wants them to be meaningful. That is the great majority... If you look into the Joint Declaration, it says that the process should be one run by elections. That is absolutely clear, and agreed by both HEATH:

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Beijing and Westminister. So I have absolutely no doubt that they are going to be meaningful. "Meaningful" is a difficult word, isn't it? We don't often use this word. If you say meaningful, will people be elected? Yes. But will those people to be elected mean anything? Well, I don't know. QUESTION:

With the 5O-year transitional period, how do you see it

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actuaþ working? expressed the view in the House of Commons that this should come about by 1997 and therefore be the situation which is taken over to be maintained in 50 years. That is my own reading of the documents. And I think it's what both sides meant. So that's

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HEATH:

my own view about it. Do you feel that when Mrs Thatcher, Sir Geoffrey Howe, Mr Luce and various other people said in 1984, after the QUESTION:

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Joint Declaration had been sigrred, that Hong Kong should proceed

in the years immediately

ahead

to lay down the basis of

representative government here that they had 1991 in mind by the phrase "in the years immediately ahead?"

I doubt whether they had any particular date in mind. rühen you are in that state, having just finished negotiations you don't usually have dates in mind. 'The years ahead' is a very convenient phrase for a politician to explain that he doesn't have any year in mind. That's what was said. Therefore, one had to work, ideally, just as fast as one could. That's what I said in the House of Commons in 1984... Now, we have reached the situation, that it is firm for '91. Therefore, at home, I think, we will take the view: then we must get on with it and make sure that it's all correct by '91. And the other things which are requíred to be done, which are printed in the White Paper, are pushed ahead as fast as possible... So we must press on now, in my view, as fast as we can with these other things. ü4ren I see the speed at which Hong Kong adapts itself to world economic changes, I'm quite confident that Hong Kong can adapt itself to other changes just as speedily and just as effectively. It has done it in the past and goes on doing it today. HEATH:

A number of people such as myself who've lived in Hong Kong for many years and during that time married nonBritish spouses face a problem because they do not hold the right of entry to the United Kingdom. According to regulations of the 1981 Immigration Act, should we die our children are able to en

QUESTION:

ter the United Kingdom, whereas our spouses are not. Therefore, the famiþ of a British subject, already devastated by death, will be faced with disunity and grave uncertainty. Clearþ the Act was not designed with this intent. Do you consider that the Act could be amended so as to safeguard British families faced with this predicament? And would you be prepared to examine the issue on our behalf¿ HEATH: It's a fairþ drastic solution to a purely immigration problem, I must say, to set out to die, so that your children could get into the UK. Will I look at the whole subject? Yes, gladly. A number of anomalies are emerging and we all know that. I can't promise anything as a backbencher, but I will gladly look into the whole situation. Meanwhile, I hope that you will hold off from the proposal you made.

ORGET IT fellas. Don't

bother organising parties at the FCC again. Leave it to the ladies. Their parties beat yours. When was the last time you saw a lady member tearing the clothes off a male dancer? Or a male member (we use the phrase advisedly) performing a dance routine with three sexy mini-skirted songstresses? Or a lady publisher being plucked from her table and slung over the shoulder of a man in a G-string? Or three lady members giving an irnpromptu performance of a 195Os rock'n roll number? And that's just the stuff Tåe

Correspondenú feels able to print. A number of persons at the "Ladies' Great Leap Forward" party on February 29 (traditionally a day in which women take the initiative over all natters romantic and sexual) had clearly decided to get down to some Heavy Partying. A number of female diners discovered that rings (and other useful items) had been secreted under their napkins just in case - power they decided to use the traditionally given to them on that day to propose marriage (or anything else) to their neighbour. Of course, one could argue that the FCC kitchen was to blame - a as they excelled themselves with menu of super-rich aphrodisiac foods, including oysters, lobsters and quails' eggs. Judging by the response, one imagines that the chef had used powdered rhinohorn and spanish fly as seasonings. The scene-stealer prize has to go to Sunshine Coats, for her courage in facing a male stripper who made Arnold Schwarzenegger look like a Barbie doll. Most of the ladies whom the large gentleman selected as dancing partners turned the colour of a particularly lurid shade

lai see packet. But not the courageous Sunshine who came to the party with husband Howard. She gamely joined in the fun to such an extent that the stripper had inordinate difficulty retaining his G-string which incidentally, \Mas so small- it should have been called an F#-string, or Eb-string even. The true story of what happened that night will not emerge, except in dribs and drabs, over the next of

month or two. Perhaps, this journal should start a classified Engagements, Marriages and Births column. Top giveaway prize during the evening's raffle was a week's luxury accommodation at any of 1,5OO resorts covered by donors Holidays Unlimited Limited. And the lucky winner was club member Martin Hess, who has the choice of 5O countries to continue his romantic evening. MARCH 1988 THE CORRESPONDENT 15

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- and planned to approach a few friends to put some money into it. "But in the time it took for the letter to be typed, enough advance advertising had come in to cover the cost of the first issue," he added. Thomas was thrilled. "We budgetted to break even after five or six months. In the event, we broke even on the first issue." Production costs have been kept low by use of the latest publishing technology. The magazine is produced on a Machintosh computer, and then professionally printed.

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viewing restaurants and bars - although a great deal of it has to run along those lines. It also includes newsy features on the territory's food trade, background informa-

or not, the most successfirl magazine in the world is said to læ RoseGrowinginSouth Wales it is just a matter of targetting your audience," he says.

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MARCH 1988 THE CORRESPONDENT 19

PEOPLE RICHARD BUTT,

one of the top brains in Asia's advertising scene, is bidding farewell to Hong Kong in June. The 41-year-old FCC member, who has

gail), was brought to Hong Kong as the agency's creative director by well-known former FCC mainstay Michael Holbeche (now believed to be running a bar in

been Leo Burnett's creative director for Asia for the past four years, is heading for the agency's headquarters in Chicago, where he will report directly to the com-

Spain) in 1976. His patch was widened to all

pany president.

of Asia in the early 1980s, and will now cover the planet. "I guess I'llbe doingmuchthe same thing but over a bigger area," he said.

sad to leave the old job of course,

"I'm

but the new one is going to be pretty exciting,"

THOSE with long memories of the region may remember

he said.

W'endell "Bud" Merick,

The UK-born adman has had an award-

who died recentþ at the age of 60 at his

laden stay in Hong Kong, culminating in his

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A meeting place in Beijing FOREIGN correspondents in Beijing and other visiting hacks now have a meeting place - the Caravan Bar of the Great Wall Sheraton hotel. The hotel management has officiaþ named the watering hole the "meeting

month.

A telephone, message pigeonholes, English language newspapers and periodicals and television set to watch network news and other heighlights shown on the American Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS), which is broadcast inhouse at the hotel, are provided at the joint besides discounted food and beverages.

Visiting journalists can also use these facilities but they need to show

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inauguration of the "meeting place" are, from left: general manager of the Great Wall Sheraton Tony Zamora, former FCC president and Beijing bureau chief of the Associated Press Jim Abrams, present FCC president and Time magazine correspondent Jaime F1orCruz, FCC treasurer and

AFP correspondent Pierre-Antoine Donnet, and FCC vice president and Voice of America corrrespondent Al Pessin.

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Lisa Jane Bickerdyke, assistant regional editor of

been living in Hong Kong years.

for the past two good place

Keith Ronald Piper, who hails from Melbourne is the general marager of Maitland-Smith Ltd.

1ive, but

Hong Kong's llure

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his native Lauda

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January 1986.

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as an exchange student in

Beijing, where his Mandarin, learned at home, served him well as a freelance

correspondent. He also u'orked for Austrian and Swiss publications before becoming Die Welt's Far

currently

East correspondent.

Joyce.

Alfred Kam Chi-wah

John Patrick Giannini

was bom in Hong Kong and left the teritory to study for his MBA degree in France.

can.

Andrew John Fraser

is a

photographer w-ith

He returned to Hong Kong

arrived in Hong Kong in

AgenceFrance-Presse He is based in Beijing.

to l'ork and is currently a product planning executi\¡e for Reuters.

October 1987 from London

where he worked for & Saatchi Worldwide. When he joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 1981

David N, Gibson is a

first

arrived in Hong Kong in September 1987 following

Saatchi

he was their internationai

employee.

He is based here as their

business

development

director.

Geoffrey Allen Galbraith,

manager of Cres-

vale (Far East) Ltd

senior consultant with Hill & Knowlton Asia Ltd. He

lwo-and a-half-years

head of public relations for Wang (UK) Ltd. Prior to

this he worked for other public relations consultancies, primarily Fortune 500 corporations.

ICIS-LOR group, a busi-

Catholic priest. Born ìn Mauritius, Keloon took his master's degree at Col-

Africa for eight years in the oil business before leaving two years ago to join the

Committee, a¡d a Roman

University. By that time,

years and finds the trade here different and simpler than back home. Every day is an experience, he says. Donnell joined FCC for its crowd, and the gym. He also plays football when he

THE coRRESPoNDENT

near as a language the Chinese

is also a member of

lecturer

commercial law, has been

1988

Hong Kong in 1982 from

up Cresvale's Hong Kong office. Prior to his

20 unncu

Jochen Hehn came

News in

CBC

the

international tobacco firm, R. J. Ret'nolds.

evision News from May 1981-1986 before being

comes from

New Zeala¡d, is regional

assigned to Hong Kong to report for CBC Radio and Television as well as for the Financínl Post newspaper in Canada. Whilst workingin Ottawa, she was the political reporter for CBC Tel-

National

New

York two years ago and joined the South Chirn Morning Post. In the US,

Meliml Literature ¿nd from

Before thal, she worked in Bangkok. She says it was a

forcasling and political risk

edits for

United Press and was the Hong Kong bureau manager for UPI after the Korean News

place" of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Beijing at a reception last

Asia Trauel Trade, has

truce was Richard Butt

rently writes

Correspondents Clubs of Japan and Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s. He covered the Korean War for

sþed in 1953. Bud joined t/S World Reþortin 1966 and retired in 1983. He is sr:rvived by his wife A¡ne and

Cathay Pacific, as well as ads tbr Mariboro, Lane Craw{ord and The Regent.

Richard, who with his wife Fredi and three children (Adam, Amanda and Abi-

of the Foreign

Elizabeth Anfield

David John Kerr,

Canadian, is a sub-editor with the business section of

the Honglnng

Standtud. WorkinginHongKong, he says, is an adventure

Louis Edward Keloon, also known as Ha Seong Kwong, is the chief editor of KungKaoPoweekly. He

Malcolm McGraw has been u'orking in and out of Hong

Kolg for more than

a decade. He serued in the

Hong Kong Governrnent for 12 years before leaving

to join Gammon Group of Companies. He was assigned to Chi Wo

1982

Properties Limited as executive director and

general manager

Sally Rodwell

has been

employed by Orientations as associate editor since August 1987. Previously, she worked as project

editor at Vere

Associates Inc.

Stephen Robert Rogers, currently a business writer for the South China

Morning Posl, worked at

September 1987.

Times Media Ltd in South

Miron Mushkat arrived

Africa for several years as an investment and economic writer before coming

in Hong Kong in September

1977 lrom New Zealand.

to Hong Kong. He took up

Whilst lecturing at Victoria

his present position last

University, New Zealand,

year.

he was appointed as special assistant for corporate plar-

Rory Scott, is

ning and finance to chairman

of the

the

Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand . He will shortly be leaving his lecturing post at Hong Kong University to work for Baring Securities

as director

ofeconomic

managing director

the

tourism promotion and re-

presentation

company,

Scott Delton Ltd. Business takes him away for lengthy periods at times, a¡rd the FCC almosphere, he says, provides relief.

MARCH 1988 THE CORRESPONDENT 21

NEW MEMBERS Juli Weber, managing director of Communiskil

A. Juliette Strijkers first came to Hong Kong in was

(HK) Ltd, works as a freelance writer for Communication Management Ltd.

transfered back to Holland. She returned to Hong Kong in 1987 after her marriage,

managing editor for Eue magazine and has had

1983 as vice consul for the

Dutch Consulate. After

three years she

to this

Prior

she was

and is currently working as

articles published in several

other publications in Asia. She is author of Better Busi.ness Inra.gc and Etî-

tax attorney forloyens

Volkmaars, an international tax advisory firm based in The Netherlands.

Lioniman Suen Shu Kwan, sub-editor/photo-

Strijkers

Thompson

Suen

grapher for Reuters, has lived in Hong Kong all his life. In the e¿¡ly'B0s he was a local stringerfor UPI and

Reuters. Before taking up

Weber

his present position with Reuters he tried an alternative career as a social

excitement,

worker for one-and-a-halfyears but {ound it lacked

with

quelte (published by

Thomas Carlton Thomp

son

III

is an

economist Wardley Investment

I-andmark) as welT as Write

Away! and The Exeuttiue Reading Program

Services.

A BOTTLE OF CHIVAS REGAL

CROSSV/ORD.", Compiled by Brian Neil @

'1988

CORRECTION: Crossword No. 1 in last month's Correspondent failed to carry the clue to 13 across. lt also had three other errors. The contest is therefore declared null

and void and the puzzle is repeated below with corrections. A winner will be drawn from new entr¡es rece¡ved this month and

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the winner's name and the correct solut¡on published next month.The error ¡s regretted. CLUES DOWN:

CLUES ACROSS: 1

The last word in warfare! (8,4)

10 Trials

edge

(7)

with a tum for

rites

(7)

12 Cheese made the wrong way(4) 13 Trend in string leads to

modelling

(10)

14 Bones mixed with royalty

attires

(7)

16 Visionary loses his head and (6) becomes a bit of a

bore

19 Demote a riot and behaved

theatrically

21 Southern hat puts an end to

(2,7)

A rag man is

3 To penalise part

9 Musical instrument in forcign coin to give an

4 Charge men

settlers

drink

(4)

with being Hellenic

5 Direction rvithout direction is a (7) blow to

Americans

6 Vegetable passed from hand to (3,6)

hand

7 Second-hand female inside showed the

way

with

habit

A French

bol'friend

15 The lowest form of backchat?

RULES 1. Entr¡es must be sent to: THE CORRESPONDENT

CROSSWORD, ForeÍgn Conespondents' Club, North Btock, No 2 Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong. 2. Entf¡es must foach the club not later than March 30. 3, Entries must carry the lull

22uttrtcn

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hear

name, add¡ess and the Club Membership Number of the

appears

be drawn from the entr¡es received will be awarded a bottle of Chivas Regal. 5. The solut¡on and the winner's name will be published in The Correspondent the following month.

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