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TIIE CORRESPONDENT AUGUST/SEPTEMBER

1939

LETTERS

Tr-jE

zoo

JOURNALISM

BY ARTHUR HA¿KER

Amongfriends qgin

World War

ON the first anniversary of

my departure from

Hong

II correspondents

Kong (8/8/88) there could

have been few mementos giving me greater pleasure than to receive a bill for my next

honoured in l\[ewYork

ONE COUNTRY SYSTEMS

-TWO

year's absent membership from the Club, preceded three days earlier by one of the best issues yet of The Corresþondent (Julyr89 ) despite the first letter on

ÞOG LATRINE

About 140 people gathered at the Penta Hotel in New York on September 6 for the Salute to W'orld lVar II Journalists held in commemoration of the start of the second'World'War in Europe. Former FCC president, Al Kafl was there. He reports:

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Page 5.

May you all refresh your-

byAI Kaff

selves suitably on Friday 13th October. Here's to the Club for women with a past and

lL^

(Ihis defr nition was produced many men with no future!

of the matter at the Salute to World War II Journalists held in New York City on Sept 6.

yea¡s ago by a Reaiew manag-

er who,

I should add,

is not

'Thewar in which you don't get killed

one of the distinguished souls

portayed on page 26)

probably won't repro-

duce very well, but I have a photo of my london Club

(Murlingham). The

bar

serves good, properly warm

English bitter, but lacks the atmosphere of the old bar or the present cavernous taverna And there's no zoo night. But when I last wandered in, wearing my )O(L FCC T-Shirt, a member I did not know immediately asked if I knew

Ronnie Ling, and someone else asked afted Jim Biddulph, so I knew I was among friends.

Chris Minþr 3 Childs StreeÇ

l¡ndon

SWs gRY

Media and tl¡e China crisis I AM tuly tired of the trashing the Hong Kong press corps is getting in the local press and your letter column over their coverage ofthe events ofJune to the north of here. They worked alongside us during the heady days leading up to June 34 and I must say I was very impressed with their dedication and their attempts to report the sûory. On several occasions their crew had pic-

tures that the "foreign" networks did not have and they were nice enough to share themwith their friends.

not in a position ûo see the Hong Kong coverage during the actual events but I feel your readers should at least be I was

aware that the Hong Kong,

Macau, and Taiwan journalists were there working on overseas Chinese visitor's permits

and had no reasswance that they would have any support should they be arrested under martial law. When I was held, I

had the backing of my corn pany which, in turn, had gone to the US State Dept (all the

cover story and photo in the

June 1989 issue of

Itchy Feet? THE 1989 Maclæhose Trail fund-raising trek organised by Offam Hong I(ong and the Queenis Gurkha Signals will be held on 27-29 October. Last year, 23O teams of four walkers each took

part including an FCC-sponsored

tenm which raised some $11,OOO for under-privileged children in HorE l(ong and otherAsian countries. This year the Club does not yet have a full team and members who would like to join this 100-km charitable challenge - or form their own teams - should contact ROBERT GRINTER or STEPHEN ROçERS at the Pool Bar in the e\¡enings. C.o€d teams welcome.

TrrE coRRESpoNDENTAUGUST/SESTEMBER

1es9

The

Corresþondenf rather unbecoming of a club of the FCC's

reputation.

Surely, the FCC, whose

many members are among the best journalists in the world, is

above cheap tabloid journalism. I am sure many readers would agree that FCC members deserve a more thoughtful and serious monthly. For example, a story on how various members covered the stu-

way to the Secretary of State)

dents' revolt in China would

think the Mays and Mables of

be more in line wÌth the Club's professional image.

to secure our release. I don't

this world and their crews

Choo Ai Leng

could have been arrested with the same feeling of their gov-

or and com6o Minutes.

ernment taking care of them. Before the Wolfendales and letter writers fall off their barstools in oukage atmy defence ofthe locals, I suggest that next

time they give it a go themselves. Iæfs see how many of those same critics are waiting at the border, June 30th, 1997.

IÞrekWilliams CBS News Hong Kong

An'unbæomingi act AT the risk of sounding like a prude, I must say I find the

NewYork (Member since 1984 and

currently absent rnember)

Choo

Ai Leng would þerhøþs

ing ofø føshion show thøt wss

held at the Club becomes an "unbecoming" act

ocheøþ

tùloid journølism". As to the reþorting of the student þrotest in China, the

Tiønønmen squore massøcre hød not tøken þlace when the tune issue of The Correspondent wøs going through þroductiott. The July issue is lørgely deuoted to the incident.

- Editor

tr Carl Mydans, who, along with his wife Shelle¡ was interned in Sanüo Tomas in

is a great experience,' Rooney told the reunion of correspondents who covered the fighting in Europe, North Africa, the Pacific and China. During World War II, Rooney lras a correspondent for Sf¿rs

Manila after the Japanese atüack in 1941. Later repatriated, Mydans went on to cover thewar h Asøfor Life magazine.

ønd Stiþes, the US forces newspaper. About 140 people atûended the gathering of writers and broadcasters that com-

Pearl Harborwas attacked, and covered the war in the Pacific.

memorated the 50th anniversary of the start of World \{ar II in Europe. Held in the Penta Hotel, the reunion dinner was arranged by the Overseas Press Club,

O DavÍd Richardson, who as a sergeant

founded a few months before Hitler's

around the world.

forces invaded Poland in September 1939,

and the US Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association.

War correspondents from all the Allied and Axis nations were invited, but only Americans - who came from as far a\{ay as Spain, Florida and California and one or two British writers attended. Old Asia hands may remember some of the people who attended the reunion and who covered the Southwest Pacific and the China-Burma-India campaigns. They included:

uþløin how the normøl reþort-

Hong Kong, describes his wartime e¡pein his new book Paci/ic Microþhone (Iexas A&M Press)

riences

E Irene Corbally I(uhn, who flewfrom Chungking to Shanghai in 1945 immediat+ ly after Japan's surrender and made what she believes was the first news broadcast from Shanghai to New York She broadcast for NBC over a US Navy kansmitber.

D Bill Dunn, who covered General Douglas A MacArthur's campaþns from Australia to Japan's surrender on the USS Missouri for CBS and who appears in one of the most widely published pho tos of MacArthur wading ashore on Leyte Island in 1944. Dunn, who is the father of Pat (Mrs Mike) Simmons of

tr Frank

Tremaine, who was United

Press bureau chief

in Honolulu when

reported the war from Burma and New Guinea for Yank magazine, the first m4gazine to be published in various editions

D Doc Quig, who covered the Southwest Pacific campaigns for United Press.

Iæonard Saffir, president of the Overseas Press Club and an International

News Service correspondent during the Korean'War, opened the Salute to World War II Journalists on a current note. He asked everyone to stand in a moment of

silence

for Terry Anderson,

the

Associated Press correspondent who has been held hostage in the Middle East since 1985. Seven World War II correspondents

offered brief war reflections. They were introduced by Elmer Lower fom World War II's office of War Information who has fiedfor Life, UB AP, CBS, NBC andABC and taught at the University of Missouri.

Quotes from the speakers, listed with

from New York to start my broadcasL

At the New York end, I suddenly heard them sa¡ 'Pearl Harbor was just bombed.' They asked me to broadcast the British reactíon right away. But only üre censor and I had

heard the news.

Harrison Salisbury, UP:

During the war, I said, tDon't make any close friends in the air force. You'll lose them. They will be gone forever.' Homer Bigart was üre greatest war correspondent of my time.

Most correspondents do only one

war. But Bigart went War

on from

World

to Korea and Vieüran.

o Carl Mydans,Life: We were the historíans of our time. Now 5O years later, I think we were pretty good. Our tmditions live on in the younger corres¡rcndents of today.

Bill Dunn, CBS:

I will never forget those who didn't come back from the rryar. I hope we never forgeL We guys with pens and pencils could sta¡rd back and look at what was happening, but those photographers had to get riEht up there in the actÍon with theír cameras¡.

o Bill Fra¡rk,

U.S. Marine combat

correspondenL

In 1942, the marines started recruit-

ing correspondents from the big

newspapers. They got three from üre Washington Post and. one from the Døily News (New Yorþ. One publisher

their wartime afnliatio n:

complained to the commandant for niding his stdf.

oAndy Rooney, Støn & Striþq: My son is a cureqrcndent and he has travelled to many places. But he will

o Fd Herlihy, Universal-lnternational Newsreel:

har¡e no oçeriencres like World \U'ar

oBob Trout, CBS in l¡ndon:

tr.

I was in a broadcast boottr with the military censÐr waiting for the sígnal

We were the only television of our tÍme. \{'e informed and we prcpagandised. AJI people had to do was go to their local movÍng picture house, and we g;ave them the story of the war.'

TIIE CORRESPONDENT AUGUSVSEPTEMBER 1989 7

MEET THE PRESS

MEET THE PRESS tives have won, thereby it explains that

CHINA

Deng Xiaoping was conservative all along and not a reformer. Not any of these is very satisfacüory as

People awaken in subdued defiance

Chinese hisûory over the past,t0 years is essentially one of continuity and not dis continuity, and the whole thing does make sense when you hang it properþ together. When I was in Tiananmetr square the day

Many executions have taken pFace in China since the June 4 massacre atTiananmen square and people are still being victimised by the ruling hardliners. But there is a spirit of subdued defiance in the country, says author and Asia specialist John Gittings (þicture)who recentþ returned from China. Chinese people, he thinks, will settle accounts with the new Gang of Four - Deng Xinoping, Li Peng, Xang Shangkun and Qiao Shi. Gittings was speaking at an FCC professional luncheon on August 10. Excerpts:

before the tanks came in, I was taking down the name and address of a young man, in his earþ 20s, who wished to set up the Beijing chapter of the i¡ternational organisation Green Peace. He was being lectured too, in these amazing meetings which took place around the perimeter of the square, by shrdent leaders and ex-student leaders in their 30s who were quo'ing Mao - the good bits of Mao, I might say. The good bits about the need for popular participation and the need to experience

HE theme lrd like to look at

could

summed up with the question,'ls there life

they're allverygloomy.

things and work

things out

for

themselves; about confidence in the long-termfuture.

Now,

afterJune 4?"

twenty years ago, when

To mention three dominant lines of

that young man who now would

analysis:

Iike to set up the Beijing chapter of

o There is the view that the Communist Party was always rot-

ten from top to bottom and could have done this any time,

but just happened to

have done it now.

o There is a more interesting analysis

bypeople likeWilliam Hinton that Mao was

right; this would not have happened under

socialism

years

ago; the People's Lib-

eration fumy did not fìre on people in the Cultural Revolution

it roaders but

has done so now, for the capitalist have

returned.

o And, then, there's the third, more common, view that I meet

especially

Hong

Kong which sees

very much in terms of

the overall struggle between reformers and conservatives. It says the conserva-

Green Peace was

born, I was here

in Hong Kong

working for the Reuiew, writing about full stops in the Peoþle's Døily, trying to guess what Mao had

said to the

Red

Guards when he

sent them off to the countryside, what Jiang Qing said to Mao, and so on. That sort of

China-watching

did have

some

validity. It's amazing, reall¡ how much of the political theatre of the

time which we described \ryas later on justified

by the accounts of

the

Chinese themselves. I visited China in 1971 and I was

enthused

great deal ofwhat I saw. The revolu-

tion in education, which seemed to China many of the experimental ideas about education in the West; the revolutionary committees which tried to democratise factory management; the battle of doctors; and so on. Anyhow, since then people in this room are probably aware of it, I may as well admit, I came back via Hong Kongwearing a Mao cap. IìIISPREDICïON$ Those of you who have read my book may say that I do attempt to describe what I think were the positive aspects of the Cultural Revolution and these things have gone as it politicised, as it aroused a whole new generation of Chinese people, some of whom have

never underestimate the sþnificance of

the chance factor or a succession of chance factors. Iæt us ask what would have happened

if Deng Xiaoping had died instead of Hu Yaobang. What would have happened if this had not been the year of the anniversary of the May 4th?\{hat would have happened if Gorbachev, if the Sino-Soviet røþþrochemenf, had matured either earlier or later? If the students had responded to Zhao Z\y anç? ft Zhao Ziyary had gone to the square earlier? If he hadn't gone to North Korea at a critical time when the first damaging editorial was published in the Peoþleb Døily, and so or.? They are all a sequence of chance

grown with that process much further

events which have been spun together

and ended up in Tiananmen square. However, although I think we weren't so wrong, I would be quick to add that many of my predictions ryere as wrong as anybody else's. I have a proud record of misprediction beginning with the state-

into this tragic resulL Nevertheless, we still have to return to

ment that whatever else may happen in industrial reform, the bonus system will never be restored. I didn't say that people's communes will never be changed, because it's so obvious they will never be changed, so I didn't bother to say so. I certainþ remember saying that, whatever else mayhappen, Liu Shaoqiwill neverbe rehabilitated. I have a moving passage which I quote in my book about the consensus that was formed at the 1975 National People's Congress. But we now know Deng Xiaoping and the Gang of Fourwere at each other's throats. So, yes, I and many others like me got plenty of these thingswrong. Perhaps it was not a bad thing that we got things so wrong and so earþ on... for when we came to the 1980s we were not so starryæyed about a lot of the things around which the stars had exploded in the last few months. lV'e were not so starry-eyed about Deng Xiaoping; \tre rvere well aware of his behaviour in 1978, his suppression of democracy wall I never liked ti Peng and I'm happy to say I quickþ looked him up after the events of the past few months and I discovered I described him as colourless, ambitious, a political helicopter - remember the phrase thatwas applid to people likeWang Hong Wen, the youngest member of the Gang of Four. I never thought much, and my col leagues never thought much of what we refer to as SCC, (Socialism with Chinese

Characteristics) avery shallow concepL I never much liked the Joint Declaratìon on Hong l(ong either. So the events of the past few months are, from an analytical poi¡t of view, not

so surprising; although in my view it need not have happened. One should

those three ways of analysing which I mentioned at the start. But which of these has great validþ?

I think there are some good points in all three lines of approach. PARTY IS

ROTIIN: The party has always

been rotten. Well, certainly this has

- you could

go back to Mao in 1949, his speech on the people's

always been true

democratic dictatorship - that the party always has reserved the right to use the \f,eapons of the state against those who challenged them. And anything Deng Xiaoping has said on the subject has becn a mere echo of what Mao said. So to that extent, this was always a party which had, if you like, the killer potential although circumstances had not led it to deploy the troops and the tanks. The capitalist roaders have taken over? Well, yes, in a sense it is true. In my view, the loss of ideological definition in the past 10 years is sheer muddle as to whatwe are doing, whywe are doing it Chinese politi cal culh¡re depends upon a sustaining ide ology which must underpin political activities, political life, and political cultue.

And finally, have the conservatives taken over? Well certainþ there are some very unpleasant people around in Beijing now. I will only mention one, Mr Xu Weijung, which is not a name you need ever have heard of. But he was the nasty guy in the Beijing party commiüee who com-

piled a hit list of intellectuals in 1987, in the campaþn against war for liberalisation. That campaþn was laughed out of the way and he hadn't forgotten it. He's there with his hit list of intellectuals. He was also a member of the group of tame ideologues brought together by Jiang Qing and the Gang of Fou¡ to help them in their campaign against Deng Xiaoping 15 years ago.

But what does it all add up to and why

do I feel that ftrndamentally we should be optimistic? It leaves out the people. And this is a process I described ofpoliticisation - perhaps too heavy aword, butjust waking up - of the Chinese people. They were supposed to wake up in 1949 and they did in a certain way. But they really began to wake up in the late 1960s and I will atûempt to describe how the Cultual Revolution spills and moves into the democracy movement and that moves on to the present day. TIIEAIVAXINING¡ What surprised me and many others, and this is not an unexpected development, was the fact that at last

the student movement, if you like, the inùellectuals movement, and the scholars managed to get their act together for the fìrst time at the beginning of this year. This was before Hu Yaobang died. The scholars and the students were working together, particularly in the amnesty movement for the Chinese dissident, Wei Jingsheng, who was sentenced 10 years ago to 15 years in jail. But it is not just students, it is notjust scholars; those of

you who were in China a couple of months 4go, I think, will agree that it was predominantly the non-intellectuals in the skeets of Beijing, the motherly types and ex-soldiers with their reassuring smiles, who thought that the army would never dare cross the barricades, we'd persuade them to go away. That was the most amazirg expression of popular spirit and collective mobilisation, spontaneous collective mobilisation.

I do not believe for a moment that Zhao Ziyang or any of his people were able to organise that at all. These were

the people of Beijing in the streets of Beijing. And it must be clearly recorded when we come to write the history of these events that those who died on the 3rd and 4th (ofJune) and on the subsequent days were predominantly not students, not scholars, but ordinary people; ordinary people with a political con-

science

in its

broadest sense. I'm

encouraged by that

we should all be

encouraged by that.l- suggest we should

also be encouraged by the theoretical void I've described. Finally, I would say another reason for optimism in the medium term. I'm not putting a figure on it, in months or years. The Chinese have a habit, we know, of settling accounts. And they have more accounts to settle this time and it'll take longer to do so and be more difficult to do so. But you can already tell from news from Beijing. Although executions have

taken place and although people

are

being victimised, there is a spirit of subdued defiance and disbelief. Nobody is

TIIE CORRESPONDENT AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1989 9

MEET THE PRESS ever going to believe the official version ofwhat happened on June 3 and June 4

and sooner or later the Chinese people will settle accounts with - if you like to call them the new Gang of Four - Li Peng, Deng Xiaoping, Yang Shangkun and Qiao Shi. Although there are a number of others too, let us call them the new Gang of Four. I believe that the day will come and it will also be a good day for Hong Kong. QUESII0N: You just meüioned that you don't like the loint Declarøtion. Cøn you

tell us how we can turn bøcþ, the clock?

GIITINGS: I really couldn't speak of Hong Kong here. What I really meantwas that I

don't think everyone reacted with the

euphoria which the Declaration attmcted, even that one very well-respected journal published here i¡ Hong Kong. It was always apparent that there were quite a few gaps to be filled and in partiorlar, the role of the Joint Liaison Group was ambiguous . . . Whatever the Joint Declaration said depended on what was happeniry in China at the time. I have no recommendation on \¡/hat to do except that one should raise one's voice. QIßSIION: 1ør a banker, not a journalist. A

brief anecdote to suþþort your cøutious

oþtimßm. I went to Beijing the firct week of July, hød ø dinner with Chinese officiøk and þeoþle of three or four corþorøtions. It begøn with ø senior Chinese fficiøl telling us whøt didn't haþþen on the night ofthe third and fourth. Aþþarently I got somewhat agitated øbout hk dissertation. And the womøn sitting xext to me, who is a senior negotiator with one ofthe trade corþorations, þut her hand on my arm, and whispered to me: "I-ook, we know whøt you sau, u)e know what u)e søu), but he has to søy whøt he høs to søy, so let him søy it." And soon øs he finished telling us what didn't haþþen, eaeryone, including the guy who told us uhat didn't høþþn, d¿cided to tell us what did haþþen. I wøs aery þleas-

antly suþrised at their willingness to be oþen, not so much in front of me, but in front ofeach other I found that consistent throughout the weeþ

was there.

GIITINGS: I hope you're still giving them a hard time over the terms of the loan or

whaûever it may be.

QIIESII0N: I find what you sø! encouraging, but also discouraging in ø longer term. Thß ß how I see it: When I wøs in Shanghøi recntly I wøs told by someote who worþs øt the Shanghøi ffice of the Foreign Ministry that half of the staff went oaer to

MEDIA W studios eaery úght to wøtch CNN. There's no þroblem with their unde¡stand-

the

ing whøt we know and our utdentanding with what theyknow.

I find

that equally dßcourøging for

ønother leøsorr. That ß, there seems to be no imþetus to chatge the systen across the country but merely to þøssiaely reject it, to þut one's head dowtt. We could tølk øbout increasing regionalism being a way ofiding out this þeiod in Beijing and what we møy uieu as an imminent death watch thøt could last uþ to 10 lears os the succesion cns¡s es ironed out. In your book you men-

tion uery artfully

the

genealop of some of

these gerentocrats. What is to þreaent another generation of þroteges attøching themselaæ to the curreú hardlinerc. And this sort of almost imþeial þalace cyle going on while the people of China do what they haae traditionally done, which ß sort themselaes out on ø local leoel and get on

with life. So I'm not quite sure whether, whøt we see os oþtimistic is in historical terms, reølly going to be changed? GITTNGS: I don't think there are enough

people left around to play that sort of henchman role which you just described. There are some undoubted$ but most of them are pretty old themselves. Apart f¡om that, the crisis within the party has reached a qualitative new stage, so that nobody who contests to reconstitute a new political ruler will be able to do it within that frame of reference at all. QUESTION: You gaue ø refreshingly optimßtic oiew of the immediøte future. Whan you talk about oþtimism in China, do you

meøn that inflation is going to be cured, that injustice is going to be erødicated, and thøt conuþtion ß going to be halted? How can you really see any ofthese høþþening;

and whøt role would the army þlay in them?

GITIINGS: Inflation is one of the reasons

the present regime will not be able to hang on. And the campaign against corruption, will run into the ground. Injustice? I think it is important that Chinese people are prepared to talk about it much more now, prepared to protest at injustice, at illegal exeortions and the resl You have put your finger on ihe political process which may well i¡volve the military. I don't wish for a moment to sug-

gest that there will be another popular uprising. The activists are going to be much shrewder in the future before commiüing themselves to that sort of action. If you want the down side of my opti-

mism, it is this: that in order to move along this way, I believe that we will see the army intervene - not to take over but

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to smooth the way for some new transi-

. . . I think we should expect some form of coup dretat, if you like, some form of abrupt move with the army looming much larger than it did in October 1976 and we should then see a very transitional regime step ping in.And that would only be the start tional political order

of the process. QIIESIION: One ofthe reasons you gaae for your cøutious oþtímßm is the Chinæe þeoþle's ability to settle accounß. And if you øre referring to the þeoþle's ability to settle øccounts with the leaders. In the þast 40 yeøts of communkt ntle in Chinø I do not see ony uamþle of that. Whøt, thøt, møhes you think this time øround the þeoþle will be øble to settle o.ccounß?

Not immediaùely, I agree. But I would have thought that Tiananmen, on April 5, 1976 was a good example that people don't get what they want; but they cerLainþ make their mark. My feeling is that there is an enormous GITTINGS:

uneasiness particularly in every single word Li Peng says. In my view there is an increasingly shaþ grasp of reality and that they have lost support with the people which undermines their selfconfidence. I agree that no people's court is going to be set up to hand out a new form ofrevolutionary justice. They are going to be half-measures. But half-measures are better than none. And I think people are more aware, they are prepared to behave and expose themselves. QUESII0N: In the hindsight of history, in the run uþ to 1997, ilo you see ø Tianønmen haþþening in Hong Kong and how do

Filling anewly

enough interest in technology in Asia, but

MIT's magazine had too much North

discovered niche

Æter two-and-a-half years of research and planning, the publishers of the Far Eastern Economic Reuiew are about to launch a technology magar;ine which will make intimidating subjects palatable to the lay reader.

American material in iL"

Asiø Technology will keep readers up to date on subjects such as outer space, ecology, agriculture, and computers and technology. With the exception of a few reprints in the beginning, all the material

will be orþinal and regionally generaûed. The magazine, published out of the

Far Eøstern Economic

will take Reuiew's

by Claudia Nalven ¡I-l HERE I ering I you're

channels and overheads. Prior to publica

if ts

in North America and Europe. But keep ing track of advancements in Asia can be difficult. That's about to change when the Far Eøstern Economic Reaiew launches its new publication, Asiø Technolog, in Ocûober. Drawing on developments in applied science and technology throughout the region, the magazine will be the fìrst to provide information and insþht to people who encounter technology in their business and daily lives, claims the editor, Peter Gwynne.

"We hope we've found a niche that - people who speak English and want ûo hook into high-technology developments in the region."

nobody has filled

The idea was born two-and-a-half years ãEo, when the Reaiew \ryas approached

by the

Reuiew's offices,

advantage of many of the i¡formation sources, distribution

MassachuSetts

Institute of Technology to market its

publication, Technology Reoiew, in Asia. According

to Brian who was

Jeffries,

freelancing for the Reuiew at the time, a market

survey indicated there indeed

was interest in

a magazine, but not exactly in the form MIT wanted to dispense. such

Potential

readers

were more interested in a purely Asian version. uThere was

tion it has a few thousand subscribers, and hopes to see an initial circula-

tion ofabout 10,000, says Gwynne. A look at the dummy shows that the magazirre was designed to make intimidating subjects palatable ûo a lay reader. Yet, it is not a rrhoril'-torr book. 'We're not going to tell readers what buttons to press on a PC, but we will tell them what the implications of

the technology has for the

next five years,rr he explains. Asiø Technology is look-

ing at the big

picture,

explaining how advances in technology will affect

people's lives, and the

politics and economy of

Asian nations.

For example, one item cov-

ered the use of sateloThe dummy edition for test marketing.

you see its consequancæ?

GIIINGS: I don't, as a matter of facl The insecurity I described on the part of Chi. nese leadership extends particularly to Hong Kong.

My view is that it was already a death

wish on the part of the Chinese leadership to call in the troops on June 3. And

we know that they were divided. How

much more desperate it would be to call in the army to Hong Kong? Nothing could be ruled out; but this selfdefeating nature ofwhat has already been done, in my view it is clear that Hong Kong is as safe as one can reasonably expect it to be.

With a regime in Beijing which is tmnsitory itself, whose days or months - if

you want me to put a figure, I would say three years on the outside, well before 1997 - are numbered. With a regime of that sort of shelf life there is nothing to be Iost by making as much noise as you can.

Editor Peter Gvrynne (lefi) all serious at his work station and (from rþhl Art Director Pat Shircore and Deputy Editor Brian Jeffries in a lighter mood, dter work with friends at the main bar of the F€C,

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MEDIA lite technology in reporting on China's

editor Brian Hodgson, who at the time of

sûrdent demonskations and the massacre

writing was still in Hawaii struggling to obtain his work visa, and editorial assistant Susan Grams. Among the fou¡ staff

thatfollowed. Art director Pat Shircore, has created a splashy format that uses bold typefaces,

primary colours, aud colourful telling

graphics, illustrations, charts and tables. *This Gwynne says emphasis on graphics, tables and charts is one of the more important feahrres of the magazine." Some of the subjects to be covered in forthcomhg issues will include a look at the Nasa probe to Neptune, electronic data interchange, the Japanese space pro gramme, a project at the Universïty of Singapore to create software specifcally for Asian markets, and a non-polluting, power-producing technology called ocean thermal energy, which may prove particularþ usefrrl for Asia's island nations.

The magazine will also include

People Section, featuring interviews with prominent people important to technolo gy. An Opinion Page will give leaders in theirfields a chance to step on the soap-

box, and, says Gwynne, a chance for those who disagree to fire back with let-

ters. "Scientists generally have strong ,,

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opinions, and are going to react to other ssnlliçting opinions." It will also cover a lot of grasvroots material, such as energy, new products, agrianlture, and methods.

One counky the magazlte

had

planned to cover in a large tvay was China, but with the current situation

unfar¡ourable both to technology transfer and journalists, it is unlikely it will have

correspondents based

in China in the

immediate fuhrre. However, the magazine

will not be ignoring the Middle Kingdorn

"Exchanges between

the

American

are five science degrees. Asiø Teehnologt also has several corre-

spondents around the region, including Singapore, Toþo, Australia, Malaysia, New Delhi, Taiwan and the US. These

Rediscovering Hong Kong Another Hong Kong, An Explorerrs Guide, edited by Alan Moores. Emphasis, Paperback Illusbated. 309 pp. No price available. Reviewed by Eamonn Fennel.

I^ I \-f

NE of the oroblems with travel books is thät they tend to be an

inttoauction to än individual's obsession. If you're interested in the author and his/her obsession then well and good, otherwise it's a bit like being button-holed by a bore in a pub who just won't shut up. Another Hong Kong, An Erþlorels Guide avoids this pitfall by bringing

together a veritable who's - who of Hong Kong's media to produce an interesting and varied exploration of the territory's less conspicuous nooks and crannies. If you're interested in yet another colour piece on the Bun Festival, or descriptions of Hong

Kong's nightlif e,

then this is not for you.

sþnificanl"

you want the

then moved on to trade publications for scientists, and a short bout at the public relations offices at General Electric's research and deveþment cenke.

correspondent Bob Johnsùone. Gwynne says that bringing the latest i¡ science and technology from this rapidly growing region will be like reaping a bountiñrl harvesl "Asia has so much potential as a source of technolory, and being able to tack thatwll be our challenge.'

BOOKS

National Academy of Sciences and China were chopped off completely, but indþe nous work won't change that much and it is up to us to track down what is really Gwynne is a Briùonwho came to Hong Kong via the US for what he calls 'the excitement of sf¡ting a new magazinen a new areao With a science degree in metal lurgyfom Odord, hewasworking on his PhD at the University of Sussex when he fell inüo a job at a small science magazine. Since then, there was no turning back !o metallurgr. Two years later he went üo the US, where he spent 11 years as science and technology editor for Newsweek. He

include former editor of Comþuterwoild, Francis Pearce, and the Reaiew's lapan

If, otr

the

other hand,

printed

equivalent of

a lively chat

with a number ofpeople familiar with

different

aspects of the territory

then this is

ideal, and relaxing, reading.

Editor

Alan Moores

Three other people are on staff

has set out

deputy ediüor Brian Jeffries, who worked for the Raniew and was involved in the ini tial start up of Asiø Technolog, assistant

to prove that Hong Kong is not "one

great shopping mall" and has enlisted the aid of journalists such as Nury Vittachi, Jane Ram, Mary O'Malley, Derek A.C. Davies and Harry RoPnick, among others, ùo unearth interesting snippets which

lie off the beaten path. The result is a gentle and informative meander away from the hustle and bustle. These 58 essays, from 41 writers, are delightfully illustrated by Sumiko to pro duce a much - needed respite from the

cliched colour that we've come to expect as the norm when describing Hong Kong. A recommended read to anyone interested in understanding the

territory.

Freelance Writers A publishing group engaged in producing books, magazines and other materials on As¡an affairs is looking for freelance wr¡ters with good Engl ish-language editi ng/writing skills. They must be familiar w¡th all or at least one of the following topics: Politics, business and econom¡cs, populat¡on issues, health and env¡ronment, and med¡a and marketing. Please send deta¡led resume, recenþphotograph and samples of published works to: The Advertiser G.P.O. Box 509

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1939 1

lt'

PE O PLE PAT PAITERSON, he of the

RoYal

the

fst

f19 Jr.,

Lef: Pat Patterson and his

wife Tyne, arriving for fhe farewell - Pat negotiating the distance from his car to the Main Bar, with the helP of a walking aid'

of a PanAm 'Flying Boat" after landing

Below :

more suitable climate in his sunsetyears. Allen H. Patterson (no one has ever called him anything but Pat) admits to 90 but probably is lying on the low side. He flew off to San Diego recently with his wife TVne, who has been at his side con-

stantly during his recuperation from broken hip.

Tlte Paftersons and

all others listened in solemn silence as some of those Pat closely spoke

r,úho kneu,

about the man theY have come to admire in these years, Among thern (far lefi from toþ)t Brig. Gen' Bilt Webb (US Air Force - Rtd), CapL Joe Dressler (uS NavY - Rtd) and newsmen Bert Okuley and Mike Westlake.

ith

ta his departure after 60 Years in Asiq. "The spirit and bodY of aviation îs embodied in this man,' observed his old fiend Brig. Gen. William B. (Bill) Webb, - U.S. Air Force (ReL)

And indeed it is.

In years past, Webb (then Air

Force Attache at the

U'S' Consulate) and other friends and

colleagues such as John MurPhY, the late George hrkas, flYing buff Mike Westlake and other journalists gathered each SundaY at Pat's museum-like flat for what everyone knew in advance was going !o be an allday brunch. It was served, inc! dentally, on the same table around which JimmY Doolittle (Pat's Executive Officer) and Patterson

discussed and Planned the 825 Mitchell bomber raid from aircraft carriers to Toþo, thus bringing World War II to the shores of JaPan.

The Wright Brothers were only

13 years ahead of Pat when it came to flying. Pat himself called it a day as a pilot in 1975. Pãtterson is a Canadian citizen still is and despik a life of globe-

-trotting. He travelled

to Europe in 1916 and joined the RoYal FlYing Corps, which was to become the Royal Air Force during World War I' Ue tie¿ about his age to get in, Pat

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1989

PE O PLE He made it to captain, with service in Italy and North Africa. He still has the framed certificate of discharge. It lists his date

ofbirth

as 1895. After the war, Pat went to the United

States, buying

up some old

combat

planes with an eye for taking them to filmmakers. He found one in Howard Hughes while barnstorming outside

Los Angeles. Pat sold him three and

joined the flying team for the

1928

movie classic Hell's Angels.

Farewell time. Among tlose who came to wish tÍe Pattersons well were Albertina and Eric Ng(aboue), W¡ll I^û Valley, general manâger of Northwest Ait (belou), Davrd, Roads (middle leff) Johln Murphy (niddle rrþlrf), Rusty Sayers, who was with Pú in Shanghai (bottom) . . .

"Howard Hughes was a nice guy itr those days," Pat recalled once in an interview with Mike Westlake. "But his personality changed completely after the crash of his Sþruce Goose. (Pat and his teams used to give flying

displays at an airfield near [¡s Angeles and one of the ticket sellers was a young blonde whose boyfriend was a motorcycle

cop. Howard Hughes asked Pat for an introduction. The cirl was Jean Harlow, who wound up starring in Hell's Angels.

. . . C,H. Rag¡hm'an ar¡d Ma Man Fei (aboue), Charlie Smith (åelaø), (bottom rþh) , . .

Pat always did have an eye for the ladies.)

Arthur Hacker (botton lefi) and Merv Harryorth

Pat subsequently formed the Pacific

Airmotive Corp. in l-os Angeles, the fìrst aeronautical sales and service firm in the United States. This was the era when the aircraft industry pioneers like Donald Douglas. Jack Northrup and others were beginning to make names for themselves.

Pat's

fìrm pioneered an

biplane but it presented too many problems and he switched to the high-wing "Cruzatr" h 1927. The aircraft r¡r'as a success but the company sold it to Ryan Aircraft. Charles Lindbergh flew a later model across the Atlantic to Paris and into a place in the history books. (Pat lost the chance of doing the test flþht of the Sþirit of St. Louis on the flip of a coin with another aviator.) The crash of1929 put Pat's company

out of business. In the earlyr30s he heard

that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to set up an

aidi¡e, so he set up shop in Shanghai and Chungking. Pat busied himself in those years training pilots and selling planes and spare parLs around Asia. One of his warmest memories is 'sþwriting" a birthday greeting in honour of

Chiang Kaishek's 50th birthday

Boeing Stearman biplane and forming an enormous Chinese character. The milewide greeting stopped traffic for miles around and the plane stalled three times before completing the mission.

Another associate of the day

was

Claire Chennault who was laüer to form the Flying Trger Squadron. During the war, Pafs company helped military contractors develop radar and other items needed by the military. At the same time, he became managing director of Bristol Aeronautical Corp. in the state of Connecticut a company dealing in top secret projects. One of these was building and designing wooden air-

craft, including the special shapes demancied by aircraft wing profiles.

Some of this technology \yas used in building the famous de Havilland "Mosquito' bomber in England.

After the war, pat went back

Shanghai, but found that no business pos sibilities existed. He then tried converting military planes into use by the civilian

sector, but surplus plane prices buried that venture. In 1960, he set up Airservices Co. Ltd

in Hong Kong, selling equipment and

planes to a number of Asian countries and representing 125 manufacturers. He sold out in 1975 and has since worked as a

freelance consullant.

As the years roll on, Pat's memory occasionally becomes somewhat hazy. He recalls Amelia Erhardt and still has a photograph she sent him prior to her illfated flþht in the Pacifc. The reception for Pat, wearing his

trademark bow tie and matching shirt, was climaxed when Brþ. Gen. Webb. now

president of the Beijing-based United

Technologies International sang the final verse of an old Canadian balled called ,4 I-ast Førewell to Ott¿wa's favourite son, holder of pilot's licence no. 694.

For what must be the first time in Club history, the bar fell inùo total silence as Webb sang: And we loued you more, more than words can tell ... You leaae us nlu with a last farewell. There wasn't a dry eye in the house. Thanks for the memories, Flyboy.

'fr'

- Bert Okulq , , , and Terry Barcroft

Photos: Hugh Von Es

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1939

PE O PLE

PE O PLE Betty Tseng, the widow of former FCC president Eddie Tsettg, and some of Eddie's friends in Taipei are working together to publish a book about E<tdie. He died of cancer in February this

å"å3äti

Kong after undergoing a maþr operation inTaipei. Betty is seeHng the assistance of FCC members and other friends of Eddie in this project particularly in gathering interesting anecdotes, photographs, etc., which might be useful to the preparation of the boolc All information and materials may be send directly to Betty at Flat 4'8, Wah Shen Court, 68 Conduit Road, Hong Kong (feL 5.'4OO225) &ldie and BettyTseng LAWRENCE MacDonald and his wife Hannah Moore are pulling up stakes in

of living in Asia.

be a Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan. He plans to study US policy and divided nations in East Asia (NorthSouth Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong). Moore, previousþ with Petroleum N¿øs in Hong Kong and currently with

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but that was earþ days.

She had condescended to visit the

ATV studios on two occasions to watch us

differently

when they invited me to take the bifocals down from their hallowed place over the mantlepiece, put a down-payment on an ear-trumpet and start a moderate exercise plan to put me in shape for a return to pre senting a regular television programme.

The Plucþ Liüle Woman was, it

seemed to me, enchanted at the idea of the

old man being draeged kicking

and

screaming from his pashre and put to work as a mega-star,once again. This was partly, Ifelt, because herwhole knowlefue of my previous tilt at media-stardom which had been a little while before she was put

videotaping the show and, in between studiously polishing her nails and calling up a few girlfriends to arrange lunch, had offered some sâge advice on how the pro grarnme should be tarted up.

My producer, John Rocha, didn't

seem overly impressed by this i¡cursion on what he justifiably felt to be his

territo ry but took it in good part, knowing that there are very few people not actually involved in the production of a television

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presenter were not enough to unnerve her, and I have to confess that in those early days of my media comeback most advisors stopped short of actual violence,

The sets had improved, but it is still totally beyond me why desþners cannot come up with a more comfortable and practical set for TV chat shows. Chairs and sofas are far too low, coffee tables too contrived and desks all to reminiscent of schooldays.

The standard of studio crews

has

improved out of all recognition and cameramen can now take a good angle without having to be threatened with physical abuse. Directors are more imaginative, producers more reasonable when dealing

with

suggestions from

the floor,

and

scriptwriters more literate and creative than I remembered them to be. But it was oußide the studios that the biggest changes took place. One of my PR clients expressed horror after observing me \{earing a competing brand of wristwatch on television. He quickly provided a gold Omega to remedy

on earth, was based on my immodest tales of what itwas like in the good old days and culled from a yellowing pile of old newsclippings that brought aglaze to her eye and those ofher contemporaries.

The fi¡st four times that she saìv me buüonholed in the skeet or seized by the lapels in the FCC bar and üold how I could improve my performance as a television

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held for more than one or two pro grammes

between buffing up the nails

and ûelephoning chums for lunch that is. As the days flashed bywe koned out the

problems in the studio. Things had improved since I'd left it all behind. Auûocue for example is nmch more sophisticated these days and the characters bigger and projected in better contrasL Video editing frcilities have improved out of all recognition and because of better equipment an editing job that used to take an hour or so could now be accorrplished in hvo orthree minutes

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distaff side of the The World Today presentation team \ryere looking considerably smarter than her man, made a determined foray around the ûop [ailor's shops in Central and a couple ofweeks later my wardrobe had been replenished with suits, casual clothes, shirts and ties by l,ondon's top gentlemen's ouffitter. As my suits had formerly come from Suteki Tailor in Wanchai and Sam's in

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PE O PLE Tsimshatsui, my shirts fom a little chap in Causeway Bay and ties from Stanley market, this resulted in a considerable improvement in my appearance.

Gieves and Hawkes, the famous [¡ndon tailors, seemed deliehted with the

deal which required them to provide lots of smart suits, shirts and ties i¡ return for credits on the rollup at the end of the pro

gramme, and Benny Fung, the manager, made other sgggestions that improved

my appearance to the extent that one member of the FCC asked if I had taken up interior decorating or hairdressing as an alternative career.

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My hair went through several experimental stages before it finally settled down to what TV critic Ken Barrett described as looking as if it had been cre ated by an open taxi window.

Columnist Strart \{'olfendale made great pþ of the fact that I hardþ moved my lips when talking on TV and if I understood him correctþ, hinted thatthis might be due to the dangerof all myteeth ålling ouL

AN UNEXPECTED \VINDFALL: Apart from these largely cosmetic changes there came a definite uplift in my professional prospects. PR clients woke up to the fact that somebody actually working íz media was possibly in a better position to handle media than somebody who had no experience of iL

A number of bluechip clients were added to our list and we began to be bonr barded with requests from other PR agencies seeking a bit oftelevision exposure fortheir own clients. Fat chance.

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my views on what was going to happen Hong Kong in 1997.

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respected political columnist came up to me in the Captain's Bar and asked me what I thought was going on in China As my knowledge of China is limited to wlrat I read in Time magazine and the daily papers, I didn't think I had much to contribuüe. That didn't stop me holding forth for half an hour or so, of course, and the

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1e8e

next day my views were faithfrrlly carried in an authorative column on China Happiþ for me, my second-hand views were not credited to me and the putative author must have felt the tiniest twinge of conscience when the PI-A attacked and

subdued

the students in

Tiananmen

square a day or so after I had saïd that

Peng would never dare to send in the koops and the tanks. I have no idea why people think that broadcasters who can make a passable job at reading what somebody else has written on the teþrompter should know any more about anything than anybody else, but it s a pzzling fact that they do.

The waiters and bartenders at my

favourite club started asking for racetips quite early on in my rejuvenated media career. Maitre Ds began to find me good tables at short notice and a taxi-driver brought my wallet back once, which had never happened to me before in over three decades of Hong Kong high-life. SOMEIIIING NOT REAILY DESIRABI& A few weeks ago ì{e celebrated the 100th progranìme of "The World Today' and

there were the expected jibes from columnist or two, and thafs

Poolroom

a another aspect

of a media comeback that I could live withouL Suddenly everybody is taking an unhealthy inûerest in my private life. Not that anybody's life in our little village here is privaûe, but I honestþ dontthink the fad that I'm looking for a new bed or that I hapen to have lost a bit of money playing Oad) snooker or liar dice, should be of interest to anybody except the PLW and

' BARRY Grindrod,

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John

Haryett and Tony Craig took this year's poolroom titles following the over-a-month-long competition held atthe Club. Grindrod, relatively a newcomer to the Club's basement sports facility, r¡¡otr the billiards tophy beating John Haryetl But Haryet took the &ball title playing against FrankShediac. The snooker title went to

;

last year's champion Tony Craþ. lastyear, Crarg played against Paul Baran to win the

koph¡ and this year against Andreas Panayi

World Rank No. 4 snooker player,

Former world snooker champion Alex (Hurricane)

Jimmy White and former world

snooker champion Alex Higgins füendþ natuh (abne) ú.the

Higgins and World Rank No. 4 snooker player Jimmy (Whirt wind) White were on hand !o

pla5æd a

present the kophies earlier thismonth.

Higgins and White witû the Club title holdens and the trophies.

Club when they came to plrcsent üre trophies to FEC champions. Left:

possibþ my bank manager. A TIME TO CAIL A IIATI: All part of the hype I guess, but when a frowsy old tart

writing gossip for a periodical here telephoned to ask me if I wore jockey

shorts or boxers I felt the time had come ûo

call a halt

It's a bit of a let-down to be reduced from a political pundit, soothsayer, savant and sage to a ventriloquist's dummy but it

John Har¡ett receives tlre trophyfor &ball.

Barry Grindrod (centrel, winner of the billirds tiúe, with Higgins and White.

John Ilaqætt (ngúf), runner up in billiards

Mev Harvorth (ce;tre) r,eceived the cup on behalf of the runner up in 8-ball game,

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Andreas Panayi (centre) the runner up in

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receiving the cup.

has its compensations.

While the television programme plunges on, upsetting not too many peo' ple as far as I can tell, RTHK have invited me in !o do a regular prograrnme in 'The Pleasure's Ourso series and I also began to get calls for'Iætter From Hong Kong" and "From Our Correspondent" conkibutions. A newspaper that had used a column of

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1. Clutched measure prepared oneself

(8)

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8. Sounds like

cold hooker (4)

9. Tattered coat some wear as a result of being lethargic (8) 10. Was seen led ar¡/ay to various points (7)

12. Now at odds with mythical deity (5) 13. At best or worst, ifs usually chilled (6) 15. Royal group to cut up (6) 17. Top establishment members not noûed for sobriety(S)

18. The last arrows (7)

22. Bloke from part of Beþium is loyal follower (8) 23. Some slaves do the washing (4) 24. Sounds

as if

it stays in the river (4)

25. One fiend is reformed and makes family (8)

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2. Break! Break! Stop!

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7. This net is capable of holding liquid (5) 11. Rest on two poles for right to obtain possession (5)

2. Entries must reach the office not later than October 20.

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3.Enties must carry the name,

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14. Material tax to make recovery (7)

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16. Sat rest of the samplers (7)

4The first correct solution drawn from the enkies received will be awarded abotüe ofChivas

17. Salute loses direction and ends up as a bone (5) 19. Take stick to a journalist and, of course, he worried (5)

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6. Ardent supporter leaps to the rescue (7)

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20. This creahre is all right a soft one, in fact (5)

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