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¡l CONTENTS order. And it was enacted into law despite protests from a cross-section of the community and media. But, having had no need to invoke the section in the past two years, it was repealed last month.

COVER THE YEAR OF THE SNAKE: Sixth in the 12

animal signs

the Chinese lunar

calendar - the longest chronological record in history - the snake is said to be thç symbol of elegance and intelligence and, at the same time, the strongest negative force in the cycle. Believers think that the snake holds the wisdom of ages and the key to the mysteries of life. The year that began on February 6 and ends on January 26, l990,is the year of the earth snake, the fifth in the snake sign. The others are: metal snake, water snake, wood snake, and fire snake. Earth snake is believed to be the most graceful and enchanting of all snakes. Chinese fortune-tellers say thatpeoplebom in the Yearof the Snake are generall_r huuutil'ul bu!, at thc :aure time, ruthless. Also, the year has seldom been it is a good time for shrewd tranquil

MEET THE PRESS GORBACHEV AND EAST-WEST RELATIONS: Lord Carrington, who recently ended his political career as secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), says that the present reduction in world tension and improvement in East-West relations would not have been possible but for the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev. But he wams that this is not the time to sink into a sense ofeuphoria and believe that everything will be good from now on. Many problems remain to be overcome, both in the Soviet Union and in the West, before "we can all live in a very much greater level of security."

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The Swire Group

JIMBIDDULPH

threatened, could we sit back and watch the same thing happen on the home patch

without

murmur? There was, in any case, a duty to consider action. Article 47 of the FCC's Articles of Association, which was introduced a year beforethe "falsenews" becamelaw,requiresthe Club's professional committee to make recommendation to the Board "with respect to a

Finally, Hong Kong lii f€Peals press-gag law

matters relating to the conduct and treatment HE Hong Kong govemment has finally done it, after a lengthy pause to save

face. The vastly criticised

"False News"clause in thePublic Order(Amendment) Ordinance has been repealed after two years without ever having been implemented. This was a result of a battle with the Hong Kong authorities which involved the House of Commons, various intemational organisations, large cross-section of Hong Kong opinion and, ofcourse, the Foreign Correspondents' Club. Probably the govemment was well meaning enough when it started. Over the years, a mass a

of legislation had accumulated on the statute books which, one way or another, affected freedom ofspeech and expression. It seemed wise, with 1997 looming up, to get rid of the rubbish, most of which had not been used for decades, and amalgamate what was worth retaining in just

couple of statutes. So far, so

good. However, what eventually emerged was, in particula¡clause27 whichthreatened twoyears

jail and a $100,000 fine for

anyone who

published false news which is likely to cause alarm to the public "or section thereof'or disturb public order. It would be a defence ifthe individual charged could prove reasonable

grounds for believing

was

t¡ue. In

other

words, tell us your sources. We will then decide whether or not it is false.

LUDICROUS: It

was a ludicrous situation, and a sometimes heated, eight-hour debate in the Legislative Council pointed forcibly to the weaknesses. This was the weapon Hong Kong proposed to hand over to Beijing when it reassumed sovereignty. However, Legco being Legco, with somanyappointedmembers, itwas carried. The protests came from fringe groups, of course. But also from the BarAssociation, the Law Society, the Newspaper Society, groups of

District Board members and

Urban Councillors,42 lawyers fromthe govemment's

own 'legal department, plus,

course,

joumalists' own organisations. Some fringe. Messages poured in lrom overseas. notjust from press organisations. So, what was the FCC going to do? There were those around the bar, whose opinions everyone respects, who said "Look, this is a social club. We should not get involved in local politics". Others pointed out that the FCC was always quick enough to send letters to foreign governments when joumalism was

EY ARTHUR HA¿KER

THE ZOO IT,S THE TALKING

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BUILT TO HELP

PROTEST: It was decided to protest. Apart from anything else, the new law applied to everybody,notjustthepress. Ifsomebodyatthe racecourse sidled up and said, "Backnumbersix in the four-thirty" and it did not win, he would be guilty. Two years in jail. Letters were sent to Sir Geoffrey Howe, the British foreign ministeq to the (then) governordesignate, Sir David Wilson, the govemment in Hong Kong. The foreign secretary replied

courteously and at length. The reply was summed up in the first sentence: "As you will appreciate, this is primarily a matter for the Hong Kong govemment". I could not have drafted a betterrefutation if I had been apolitical advisor sitting in the Government Secretariat in LowerAlbert Road. Come to think of it, that is where the reply was replayed from. After a lot of agonising, it was decided that an FCC delegation should go to London. A

delegation

of one -

which meant me,

president. An appointment was confirmed with the then foreign office minister responsible for Hong Kong affairs, Timothy Renton. He wàs also seeing, separately, a delegation from the

Hong Kong Joumalists' Association.

WEATHERMEN AT RISK!: It was a quick trip: three days of radio and television explanations and intensive lobbying of members of Parliament. Vy'ithout exception, they were honified. There was a nice remark

The meeting at the Foreign

CL,.q.SS

weather forecasters; they spread false news all the time which alarms sections of the public."

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joumalists and the media".'

from one lawyerMP afterhe hadreadthe clause carefully. "You know," he said, "if we had this, the first people I would prosecute would be the

BOOZE

and

Commonwealth Offrce with Mr Renton and his officials lasted an hour. Needless to say, there were no undertakings. "Britain does not interfere in the intemal affairs of Hong Kong" and all that. But the impression I came away with was that within 18 months, Section 27 would be repealed. I was wrong by a couple of

THE CORPORATE BODY ARRIVE

IN BETTER SHAPE

On Juþ toth, we invited Mr. David Lloyd, Director of an International Finance Company, on

flight CXZ0I to Bangkok to test the New Marco Polo Business Class.

The changes that he saw

are

indeed signiÊcant.

A completely new environment which gives each passenger over 10o/o

more individual space. Wider, more comfortable

seats.

,\ new interior designed to create a relaxing and businessIike atmosphere.

'\nd, on long haul flights, footand leg-rests to further enhance passenger comÊort.

All these improvements

met

with

his approvaì. But one thing pleased

him more than anything

else.

The Êact that we hadn't changed

our high standard ol

service.

Cathay PaciÍìc acknowledges the participatìon of Mr. David Lloyd in testing the New Marco Polo Busrness C/¿ss.

months. A funny twist to this whole tale is that Britain itself had a very similar law, passed in the

\{ \)

l3th century which locked up anyone who gossiped about senior officials, until they revealed their source. That law was finally revoked in 1888. It only took Hong Kong a

century to catch up.

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1989

Arrive in better

shape /a

CATHAYPACIFIC-

MEET THE PRESS

Lord Carrington

vested interest in keeping things as they are. Then, what you might call the bureaucrats have a ve¡y great interest in maintaining their own position and let things go on as they were rather than change as a result of peresu'oika. Btrt I think thatthe longerhe is there, the morehe will be able to put his own people into the positions

on Gorbachev and East-West relations

of authority.

DISSIDENTS AND BUFFER STATES:

Former British foreign secretary, Lord Carrington, who ended his political career last year as secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), was in Hong Kong last month in his new role as chairman of Christie's Intemational, the fine art auctioneers. And he took time off to address a professional luncheon at the FCC. Excerpts:

T wns I .urnu I p,uaa the outskirts

utmylastinor

tooK 'act,nur on careo Brussels. This hut was built

when General de Gaulle turned Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) out of Paris. And, itwas builtratherquickly by the Belgians in the hope that Nato would move on somewhere else quite quickly and they could tum it into a militaryhospital. It was ahorriblebuildingto work in, but it was an extremely interesting job.

Anybody who has tried to deal with 16 sovereign nations - each of which has a differentform of govemment, govemments of different political complexion and their own ideas about how things ought to be run - will realise that it is sometimes not very easy. But it's no good going back over four years because, you know, it's yesterday's joint reheated. Instead, I thought I might just say a word or

two about Easr'West relations and what

has

happened, as I see it, in these past few years. A NEW ERA: There has been such a remarkable transformation in the rel ati onship between

the superpowers, and the Warsaw Pact and Nato, that I don't think that five or si x years ago you would have believed it could have happened.

WhenlwenttoNatoin 1984,nobody wason speaking terms with anyone else. The superpowers hadn't talked to each other for some years. Therewasacompletedeadlock. Andthe interesting thing I thought, when I got there, about that was that the result was a disillusion in Westem Europe - to some extent in the United States andCanadaas well - about whatit was all about. All they could see was that there \ilas a deployment of more and more nuclear weapons in Westem Europe as a result of the failure to reach an agreement about the withdrawal of the SS20s. Nobody was talking to anybody else, and fhey saw that that was, in their view, a kind ofhopelessness about the situation. From that arose the success of the campaign for nuclear

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Second problem is, what is going to happen in the outerbits of the Soviet empire-Lithuania, Estonia, etc. You've seen what is happening in Armenia. If you really do hav e pe re stroika and you do have g/asnos¡f, then doesn't it rub off on all those people who have felt that though they're part ofthe Soviet Union they do have a national identity of their own? Much more important than that is the problem he has with Eastern Europe.lf peresn'oika and glasnosr really are carried out and are a success,how does he treathis Eastem European allies? ln military terms, it presents a great problem to the Soviet Union. Because, afterall, Yalta and everything that emerged after Yalta was as a result ofthe Sov iet fear ofinvasion and

disarmament and the peace movements. And, I think that from the point of view of Westem defence, that was beginning to be extremely dangerous. Then, all of a sudden, things really changed as a result of the meeting between President Reagan and Mr Gorbachev in Geneva. From thatmoment onwards,

there was a totally different atmosphere between the two superpowers and between the Warsaw Pact and Nato. And, of course, there was also a different atmosphere in public opinion and, to a large extent, the campaigns for "nuclear disarmament and peace movements" became very much less important and lost a great deal of momentum.

ENTER GORBACHEV: Of course, one has to say, and willingly sa¡ that none of this would have happened had it not been for Mr Gorbachev. However, it is quite wrong to say that MrGorbachev has made all the runningandhas produced all the initiatives. That simply isn't true. What is now agreed was on offer seven or eight years ago. The INF agreement was ón offer in 1979. These are, broadly speaking, 'Western initiatives. Butthey were nevertaken up. And, but for M¡ Gorbachev, ofcourse, they never would have been taken up. So we have seen a really, revolutionary change in EastWest relations because of Mr Gorbachev. The difficulty with public opinion, which you and others like you manipulate so successfully, is that it's so volatile. It's either disill usion because there's no progress, or ifthere'sjustthat much progress, it has a wave of euphoria and beliefthat because you've got one agreement there is no need to worry about anything more in the future and you can relax.

and having a very large conventional army and navy. I think thatMrGorbachev has seen thatthe gap between his economy and thatof the United

States, Japan and, to some extent, Westem Europe, is growing so wide that unless he does something about it, it isn't really going to be possible forhimto¡emain as asuperpower. And in order to deal with this situation, he has to do two things - he has to ensure that there is international stability on his borders so that he isn't distracted by foreign problems, and, somehow or other, divert a very large pörtion of the Soviet expenditure from defence into the domestic economy. You see evidence of that. For example, why is he getting out of Af-

ghanistan? Obviously, it was a catastrophic decision from the Sovietpoint ofview, because it probably did more damage to the Soviet Union in the eyes of the third world than any single thingthat the SovietUnion has donesince the second world war. Itreally scandalisedthem as you see by the votes in the United Nations every year. But it's also a great drain on his economy. And I am quite sure, he is the reason why we're getting pressure on the Cubans in Angola. Vietnam is the same reason; and, I think, the rapprochement you see with the Chinese is the same reason.

A GOOD THING: I think that's good for us. Let's not say because he's doing it for economic reasons it's abadthing. It isn't; it's avery good

except in terms of possess ing nuclear weapons,

1989

A MORAL OBLIGATION: That, I think, presents not only problems for the Soviet Union, it also presents problems for us. The most immoral thing that we could do is to encourage the Eastern Europeans to break away from the Soviet Union in the expectation that, if things went wrong and the Soviet Union wanted to come back, they would get help from the West.

Theycertainly wouldn't. Sowehave,Ithink, a moral obligation not to let it be thought by the Eastern European countries that in all circumstances, we're on their side and we'd come to thei¡ aid. Of course we want to get onside with them; of course we want to trade with them; of course we want to have more contacts with them; but let's be realistic, there is no way in which the Western countries would go to war in

prop-

think Mr Gorbachev has got

happening now I think the future of Eastern Europe is probably more important than any

sensible and we make sure what's done

erly verified. However,

abufferbetween the borders of

order to save Poland, or Hungary or Czechoslovakia from a re-occupation by the Soviet Union. So, if you ask me what is the most interesting question thathas arisen as a result ofwhat is

thing from our point of view, provided it's RUSSIA'S REASON: Now, about Mr Gorbachev. Why is he doing it? All the evidence points to the fact that Mr Gorbachev is doing it for economic reasons. The SovietUnion has neverbeen asuperpower

the need to have

the Soviet Union and any potential aggressorYou may think that's fairly far-fetched; but if you were Russian, who have a great history of being invaded from the days ofGenghis Khan, you'd really have a lear about invasion. So if glasnost and perestroika work, what about the buffer? How do you stop some of the Eastem European countries from saying 'well, thank you very much, you have been very kind to us overthese lastyears, butwedon't wantyou anymore; we can go our own way.'

some problems, some very considerable problems. One of them, obviously, is what is rather curiously called the conservatives, who have a

other. One of the otherthings MrGorbachev has to worry about is what happens ifhe doesn't suc-

Over the years, there has been growing up and at this particular moment, perhaps more sharply than ever, a feeling that Europeans are not really pulling their weight. And, I believe that in the nextpresidency, you will have great pressure from Congress that there should be a greater effort on the part ofEuropeans and that

ceed? What does he do about it? And, how long he has got before he actually has to show some sort of progress in terms of improvement of the

standard of liv ing of the Soviet people?

WESTERN PROBLEMS: Then, wehave got our problems in the West. We're fairly all right in terms of our plans on East-West relations relating to arms control. We know that we've got perfectly good proposals on the strategic arms talks, we'vegot apretty good idea onwhat we would do on conventional stability talks. But if you think it was difficult to get agreement on the intermediate nuclearforces, it's goingto be a hundred times more difficult to get agreement on the reduction ofconventional forces, because you're dealing with something infinitely more complicated. With the INF you were dealing really with only the SS20s on one side and the Pershing cruise missiles on the other side, and you have

theAmericans should spend less money on what they consider European defence than they are doing at the moment. I think the Americans a point and Europeans ought to do

fJå.tt

Then, we havethe problem ofmakingquick responses to Mr Gorbachev's overtures. I'm afraid we always look a little bit as if we were being left behind. Even when we initially propose something, it always rather looks as if Mr Gorbachev has made the running. There's a perfectly good reason for that. That is, Mr Gorbachev can change his mind twice in a week which he did once about two years ago. And you

can't imagine the Hungarian prime minister

you'redealing with conventional weapons from

ringing up and saying, 'Now, look here, I haven'tbeen consulted about this; you really aren't going to do this again, are you?' On the other hand, when you've got 16 sovereign countries in Nato, you can be quite sure that you can't do that to them. They' ll have different views and it takes time to iron out the differences und to present their views. But it does make us look a little bit slow

really very few verification problems. But

the Urals to the Atlantic, and materials as well as men, and you have all the inequalities - the problems of geograph¡ theproblems of verification, etc. - you really are in some difficulty. And, I would remind you that the conventional talks which have been going on for 14 years in Vienna about the central front and only about men, haven't even established the basis andthe numbers on which thosetalks shouldtakeplace.

AN ACHIEVEMENT: Sometimes Ithinkwe PUBLIC OPINION:

We also have our problems of public opinion. People will say, 'Well, there really isn't any threat now, there's no need

to worry about anything; how could Mr Gorbachev really mount any kind ofthreat against us.' But if you look at it objectively, it isn't what MrGorbachev's intentions are, whatwe have to look at is what the military capacity of the Warsaw Pact is and what would happen if Mr' Gorbachev disappeared, or if Mr Gorbachev changed his mind. ln a democratic society it is quite difficult to try and persuade people, that because you've got Mr Gorbachev and because Mr Gorbachev meets the US president once every six months and the delence ministers meet each other almost every other day, really what are we all doing spending an awful lot of money on defence? The real truth of the matteris, that we can't afford not to until such time we seethe imbalances between the East and West disappear and a real reduction on the side ofthe Soviet

are rather inclined to underestimate the progress

that we've made. The creation of the European Community, for example, has made it absolutelycertain thatnoneofthose l2 countriescan ever go to war with each other again. It would be impossible fbr it to happen. (Of those l2 countries, at least three of them have been responsible forthe wars ofthe pasthundred years or so.) And that in itself is a remarkable achieve-

ment. And, then, you take the creation of the Nolth Atlantic alliance. That in itself has kept .

from a third world war. So we haven't done

all that badly. And I'm quite certain if we're sensible, ifwe actually play our hand properly, a chance in the next few years that we can all live in a very much greater level of security, much less expensively andmuchmore sensibly.

there really is

QUESTION: You say that the Soviet Union was using Eastern Europe as a buffer zone, Is the United States not using Western Europe as its buffer zone?

Union.

WESTERN ALLIANCE: The other problems that we face, which are not particularly related to Mr Gorbachev but are related to the

Atlantic alliance itself,

is European-American relations. The whole basis of the alliancerests on the relationship between Europe andAmerica. WithouttheUnited States' commitmentto Europe I doubt that we would be able to mount credible defence.

CARRINGTON: I don't really. I remember, before the war, being told that the B¡itish frontier was on the Rhine. I don't, somehow, think that we were using the Rhine as a buffer zone. We were being realistic. lùy'e understood that if Belgium, France and so on collapsed, it was our own security at risk. This is where I very much feel for theAmericans. in the sense that I don't

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MEET THE PRESS think Europe is doing enough. But I don't feel for them when they say that theAmericans are doing Europe's job in defending Europe. What theAmericans are in Europe for is to defend the United States. Because they know perfectly well that if Western Europe disappeared from the map under Soviet domination, their own security would be very much at risk. So, what

they are doing is defending themselves by defending us.

QUESTION: You're talkingaboutdefence. But if there is to be defence, there must be a threat, Couldyou pleaseexplain tousNato's perception of what the threat is. It would appeâr that Nato thinks that the Russians aren't just defending their own frontiers. But are they still bent on world domination or world communism? If we got rid of Nato altogether, and have, perhaps, a European defence union with the Americans, would this necessarily be inviting the Russians right into the coast of the Atlantic?

CARRINGTON: How do I know? I haven't the faintest idea. This is really what I mean. It seems to me that the threat is because the Soviet

The one thing you must never do in an arms controlnegotiation is toenter into an agreement which is not verifiable. Because ifyou do, you are actually creating more distrust and doing worse than in not entering into the agreement at all. Theway togetridof all this, is tocreate asort of trust and get rid ofthemeans whereby any threat could be made against you. And the way you dothat is through arms control. And the way you get arms control is by doing itfairly slowly and fairly sensibly and absolutely verifiably. It isn't any good in my judgement just making a sweeping political statement saying there's no threat when you know that there are twice as many Soviet troops on the other side and three tlmes as many tanks and God knows what else. And until they are moved, I'm going to be very careful indeed that I don't ask the Americans to leave or spend less money on defence.

QUESTION: In looking at the danger of Russia to the West, how do you see the relationship between Russiaand Chinaaffecting the West?

CARRINGTON: I wouldthink thatoneofthe reasons for some sort of rapprochement be-

body's judgement, is necessary for their own defence. And that every year, even now, they have more and more. What's it all for? Now, there are all sorts of explanations for maybe you've got amilitary bureaucracy it, - running the Soviet treasury, unlike what that's happens in the United Kingdom, where thepoor old Ministry of Defencedoesn'texactly runthe Treasury. Maybe, they're just making a mistake, maybe they're just scared of us for no reason. I don't know what the reason is. All I know is that the military capacity on the other side is so great that we would be very foolish indeed not to have regard to it.

tween the Chinese and the Russians now is that the Russians feel that they've got to get stabi lity on their borders. How far it will go, I don't know. But I would suspect that it wiìl be a very long time before the Chinese regard the Russians as the sort of partners that they used to regard them before they had theirquarrel. And, ofcourse, a great deal wi I I depend upon whether or not MrGorbachev's reforms are successful. If not, you get the "conservatives" back in the

Soviet Union. Then, maybe, there will be a fellow feeling among the "conservatives" in China. Idon'tknow. Butlwould havethought that it's notvery likely in the future that you will

get some sort of situation between the Soviet Union and the Chinese which would be a threat to any of us.

QUESTION: You mentioned the Soviet threat in terms of Russia east of the Urals and the challenge of local nationalities, Lithuania, Estonia and so on. But the European attitude seems largely to be summed up by to what extent is Chiria's liberalisation being affected by Gorbachev. Well, in fact, historically it's very much the other way around. And what happened post-1972. Nixon visit to China was that China had something to respond to and was given various things by a ratherenthusiasticAmerica. The attitude that you have summed up on

í--

behalf of Europe and Nato, is rather unimaginative and ultra-cautious and Gorbachev is not going to have any bones to

PEOPLE

throw to his conservatives and generals and that might accelerate his downfall and failrure. Would you care to comment?

AFIER two years

as the foreign editor of the Karl Wilson, has

South China Morning Post,

CARRINGTON: I am rather cautious

parted company to

and

join

Hong Kong's other

English-language moming daily,the H o ngko n g Standard. He is the editorofits Sunday edition starting this month. Wilson's move is said to be only the trailblazer. More defections are likely to follow.

unimaginative. And I think when you're concerned with your own security you might be well-advised to be cautious and unimaginative, and practical and pragmatic. I don't think that what I've said means that we don't help Mr Gorbachev in economic terms. You have to be fairly careful about how you do it. The stupidest thing to do would be to help him in economic terms in a way which would allow him to go on spending money on rnilitary things and avoid having to do his own research and development or whatever it might be. To sum it up, I would much rather have a fat Russian than I would have a thin Russian. Because I think that a thin Russian is more dangerous than a fat Russian. The fat Russian has got more to lose.

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signed

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well as to replace some of the "expensive ments, before becoming foreign editor of the DailyTelegraplr in Sydney, says that he leaves deadwoods" at the Standard. Insiders say thePosfverymuchdisappointed."Intheyears Lennon's presence, though seldom seen, I've worked with the Posl I have seen some already being fett on the editorial floor in sonnel to choice of

some

soon

colours on the pages of the paper.

the

Michael

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and he has since started taking a direct i nterest in edi to-

want to work for a good paper," says Lynch. The possibility of Wilson quitting the Posr has been rumoured for some time, particularly sinceitbecameknownthat Aw Sian, the chairman of the Sing Tao Group which owns the Standard, appointed the fomer managing director of thePosf , Tom Lennon, as chief executive responsible for the group's newspaper operations.

rial policy and op-

While Lennon's own appointment to this important position was reported by the Standard,curiorsly enough, as inconspicuously as the Posf announced his departure in January

Wilson, 35, who

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goodjoumalists go through its doors," he adds. One of them was the man who brought 'Wilson to the Post, the then editor, Alan Farrelly, wholeftthe paperratherabruptly in 1987. 'Wilson says that Farrelly was a good editor and he had "a brilliant concept to take the Po.r¡ to the region". No single newspaper, he adds, serves theAsia-Pacihc region, which, economically, is the fastest growing area of the world. "But that dream didn't materialise." "l joined the Posl with a view of taking the paper to the region. We intended to turn the paper from being a rather staid parochial newspaper and make it the regional voice ofAsia. We went to establish bureaus throughout the region and syndicate ourmaterial to the world. Thatvision did not materialise for one reason or another. Had it came off, the Pos¡, I think, would have been a truly great newspaper in the international sense." Wilson now feels he needs anew challenge. "The Standard is a first-class local newspaper which is growing fast. And one key factor is, Tom Lennon is there andhe willmake it work."

ally known advertising agency, Ted Bates.

CANADIAN joumalist, Robert Karniol, who left a two-year-long editorship of Asia Travel Trade, "fo fulfil the desire to be a defence writer", has finally achieved his goal. He is now based in Bangkok as Far East editor of Jane's Information Group which publishes Jane's Defence Weekly and other journals. Visiting Hong Kong last month, and sporting slightly shorter hair than before, Karniol said that he enjoys his work and he is generally happy. In addition to

Rittger the

Mark 6lottery

wellas startedanew job as

business development manager

the

Standard Buffhe encounter with the Standard didnot last long. Lastmonth, Rittger moved to his familiar patch, the advertising H on

kon g

Rittger, 50, born in Detroit and educated in Southem Califomia, has been in the advertising business for most of his working life, spending more than tlvodecades inAsia.And, he willnow be based in Taipei working for the internation-

-/a ne's D efence Weekly,

Aerospace Review and I nteravia Air Letter. And, Kamiol writes forall of them. Karniol left his native Canada in early 1983 after having worked some two years there as editor of the Montreol Business Report (19798l ). His destination was Hong Kong, where he worked briefly as a freelance writer and then joined A.sia Travel Trade. Leaving the travel I nteravia

in 1985, he became a freelancer again, writing mostly for Jane's Defence Weekly for three years until he was

journalism scene

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am not leaving Hong Kong for good; I

Hot denials and living proofs EWS is pouring in, mostly in the form of hot denials of

prem atufe death, from survivors been

who have

perturbed to read of their demise in these columns. A chance meeting with Guy Searles in

12 TIJE CORRESPONDENT FEBRUARY

THEY NOW I

by rãd rhomasl

Statue

Square (Central, Hong Kong) one Sunday last month brought living proof that he at least is in the land of the living and enjoying life hugely, if the smiling cutie on either arm is anything to go by. He did rant a bit about this being "the most depressing god damn column ever published," so he's evidently as witty as ever.

Other News Stanley Rich, founding editor of the H on g ko n g Standard ,andhis wife Doris are Iiving in a large apartment in the heart of Washington DC, right opposite the Chinese embassy. Afterjoining USIA in 1966, Stanley did l8

months in Vietnam, six months learning Chinese at the Foreign Service Institute in

Virginia,

t'û/o years as press officer in Dacca, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), l8 months with Voice of America's Asia bureau - based in Bangkok, commuting regularly to Laos, Cambodia and

Vietnam and responsible for everything from India to Australia -then six years wiih VOA's bureau in Washington, which included newsroom correspondent and broadcaster as well as head of Thai Desk and 15 months of intensiveThai-language studies atFSD and another private language-school, two years as Branch Public Affai¡s in Khon Kaen in charge ofThailand's 16 noftheastem provinces, two years as counsellor for information at the US embassy inAccra, Ghana, and anotheryear with VOAinWashingtonDCbefore retiring in 1983.

He was, he protests, never with fhe Los withABC when he joined USIA in Hong Kong and went direct to A

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Stanley's wife Doris has just finished a biography of Amelia Earhart which she worked on formore than five years and which entailed quite a bit of travelling to the four points of the USA, new to them both after a lifetime

ge le s Time s but had been

Vietnam.

22303. The legendary Steve Dunleavey works for Current Affairs magazine. We have no address

for him. Keyes Beech still writes an occasional column and lives with his wife Yuko and daughter (who must be about I 5 by now, or, þerhapsèven in college) at 5 105 Baltan Road, Sumner, MD

20816. As regular readers

Vy'hew!

Address

lives at 5004 Sangamore Road, Bethesda, MD 208 1 6. Randy's wife died ayearortwo ago. His daughter, Paulette, is in the TV business and lives at 2646 Redcoat Drive, Alexandria, VA

I am indebted to Stanley for most of the information that follows.

Vicki Burrows, widow of Time-Life photographer

Larry

will know by now, Bob

Elegant and Moira are at The Manor House, Middle Green, Near Langley, Berkshire SL3 6B5. Incidentally, he was with Newsweek VERY early on but was with the Los Angeles Times when he left Hong Kong.

Bur-

rows who was shot down in Vietnam, can now be

BUSINESS WRITERS

found at 211 Central Park West, (Apt, 9J), New York, Y 10024.

Scott Leavitt recently departed from Sports lllustrated, part of the Time Inc.

John Dominis is thankfully al ive and stitl with Ïme-Life. Roy Heinecke retired shortly after he was replaced by Stanley

still

Rich 1970 in VOA's Bangkok Bureau. He and Conniemoved to Florida, then to Bangkok to join theirson, Skip, and then back to a new home in Florida.

Frank Robertson, also still very much alive, was in London but considering moving to Australia. He may already have done so.

Gregg McGregor - lastheard ofat least 1 0 years ago, still working for New York Times in New York. Probably retired by now; no address.

Jim Robinson died a couple Barbara Robinson lives in New Jersey. Woodie Edwards, sometime after leaving Hong Kong, ended up with the honorarium post as head ofAP's B ureau in Honolulu. of years ago.

ham, the monthly magazine of

the

American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, wants to expand its network of freelance business writers. Published word rate: HK$ 1.30. Average length: 1500-2000 wds. Most stories assigned.

FredArmentrout, Editor-in-Chief, at 5-260165. Remaining feature themes 1989: MARr HK Real Esøte; Office Automation; Computersi Patents & Copyright Protection

APR:

South China & Macau

MAf:

Hotels; Caterinq

; :

& Food

Produits & Seriices Finance

Processing; Medical

& Banking; Telecommrmications

Americans in Asia; US Investrnents in HK; US Service Industries in Asia

, .'

Shþing &

Ports; Freight Forwarders

Business Travel; Consumer Products; Apparel

Textiles

': ; ;

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Doing Business In China US High T.ecþology In Asia; Electronics; Petrochemicals _Executive S-earch; M_anagement Services; La\ry;

Equlpment kasmg; Insurance

Either retired or died - Stanley can't remember whichl Bud Merick and Randy Feltus both died last spring - Bud athis home in Bethesda, MD. and Randy in Washington DC. The

latter a particularly long,

sad

story. Bud's death was reported in T he C or r e s p o nde nt last March. Bud had retired from US News and World Report five years before his death. His widou Anne,

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Lionel Breson de Lavergnee began working for Reuters eight years ago in Paris. Before moving to Hong Kong last year as sales and

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FEBRUARYlg89 THE CORRESPONDENT 15

CLUB NEWS

The annual

staff party AFORTNIGHT after the Club held a nighr long party to usher in 1989, the staff members of the Club held their traditional New Year's party with a Chinese dinner. Helcl at the Harbour View Seafood Restaurant in Tsimshatsui East on Saturday, January 14, the party began at around 4.30 p.m. with pre-dinner drinks and games and ended at

ro R)l Heidi Wong, Kenneth Lam, Franki Tang and Aldrin Leung. Seated (fi'om L ro R), Christin Kong, Linda Yan, Stella \{ong, Panly Lam, Fanny Ng and Winnie Lai.

Standing (from L

Lto R: Ida Hung, Wendy Wong and Wong Sin Ping. Belov, L to R: LindaYau, Christin Kong, Julia Suen and Stella Wong.

Above,

Clockwise: Chan Kam Sui, Chiu Kong, To Cheuk Win, Wong Chun Wah, Lam Wa Sang and Wu Ching Kong.

Wendy W ong, far I eft, and Winnie La| Left, singing to n their colleagues.

around 11 p.m. As usual every one of the94 staff members received prizes drawn by a raffle.

ATOAST. Frun l, roR: Chan Kam Sui, Cheung Kin Hon,Alan Chan, Lo Chi Mun, Chiu Kong, Wong Chun Wah.

Facing the camera, from L to R: Dennis Yuen, Sammy Cheung, Billy Mak and Jo Lai.

Alan Chan (Below) and Gilbert Cheng(Left) also took to the floor to entertain their colleagues.

FEBRUARYI9S9 THE CORRESPONDENT 17

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[. Thegunsappeartoget

Ahereticenteredthe room, but said little once inside (7)

Takeanopal, lock itaway and it could become

tiresome (4)

Loud cut becomes less than successful (4)

9Tough camivore, the Cockney says, but it is really quite a harmless ìittìe creature (8) 10. Sail on haphazardly,

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one in themiddlehaving a clandestine relationship (7) 12. A beach in

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louder

4. Oddly enough, some ofthe best are actually a type

5. Looked for a thug

discovered (6)

6. It

is not a gin mix for making amends (7)

7. When you luff a boat into the wind, you might find something strange growing (5)

l. Spot a note, you may remark, and not feel too good (5)

2. One hundred and

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6. It was here Tom, being

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confused, made a statemenl (7)

put under constraint (7) 22.

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P ad,re

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Germany (8)

7. This bat held in both hands

to bask (5) 19. Trap acenripede which

sometlmes moves

rapidly (5) 20. A red car smashed into a

group ofpeople (5) 2I.

One bedroom was empty, the other bedroom had a man in it (4)

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