CONTENTS COVER STORY A Vietnamese journalist, well-known for his frank and fearless writings in both Vietnamese and foreign media before the 1975 communist victory in the Vietnam War, is now a refugee waiting in a Hong Kong detention camp for resettlement. Nguyen Dinh Tu, 66, left his homeland with 99 other escapees late last year. An international media effort, initiatedby Baltimore Sun's Vietnam War correspondent, Arnold "Skip" Isaacs, has won Tu refugee status and assurance of a new home, possibly in the United States. 4
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Former Sa A Hong Kong newspaper, awar correspondent turned university lecturer, and journalists in Hong Kong, France and the US have worked together to help a former Vietnamese editor held in a Hong Kong detention centre for Vietnamese boat people to be screened as a political refugee for resettlement. Photo: John Giannini
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VER SINCE he finished serving
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namese prison camps, 66-year old Nguyen Dinh Tu - a former war cor-
respondent and assistant editor of the now defunct Saigon daily, Chinh Luan had been planning to flee from his homeland. But it took him 19 months of planning and waiting, including a period of hiding in the Vietnamese port city of Haffiong, before he was able to step into a wooden boat in the dead of night and set sail to an uncertain future in Hong Kong, the port of first asylum best known to escapees from Vietnam. Sailing with him were 99 other equaþ desperate Vietnamese men, women and children all running away from the perils they
SAIGON, Apnl29, 19751 American and other foreign newsmen being evacuated from South Vietnam, Tu was not among the ones to get ont. - UPI þichûe b! Hilbelt uail Es
claim the Democratic Republic of Nguyen Dinh Tu and (leÐ Lwo of the principal players in the rescue: A¡nold "Skip" Isaacs (toþ) a¡d. Saul Lockhart.
Vietnam. Bao Dai then became political advisor to the Viet Minh. This turn of events was bad news for Tu. The new regime eventually threw him into jail for his anticommunist writings. The communist-nationalist coalition did
know to perils unknown.
That three-week journey across the
not last long. By the end of 1946, the
choppy South China Sea, during which they were battered by three typhoons, ended exactþ as Tu and his travelling companions had wished it to end - in the dragnet of marine police patrolling Hong Kong's territorial waters. But Tu's ordeal was hardly ended. For that he had to wait
nationalists and Bao Dai had become thor-
six more weeks, before journalists in
France, the US and Hong Kong could be mobilised to bring his plight to the attention of the authorities in Hong Kong and Washington and to make them realise
that Tu, unlike many of the more than 50,000 Vietnamese boat people waiting
in
detention camps in Hong Kong, is not an economic migrant, but a genuine refugee running away from political persecution. In his better days in Saigon, before the US withdrawal and the fall of Saigon in 1975, Tu was a well-known journalist,
respected both inside and outside Vietnam for his frank and fearless writings in Chinh Luøn as well as the The
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New Yorker and other foreign media. The power of Tu's pen is well acknowledged
in David Butler's
book, The Fall of
Saigon. Tu is extensively referred to in this book. For example, discussing the communist attack on Pleiku and the ensuing mass exodus, Butler writes that Tu happened to be in Pleiku when the exodus began. He stayed with it, filing dispatches for Chinh Luøn lhr ough four
of the 10 days until remnants of the columns, which Tu termed "the Convoy of Tears," began to reach the coast. According to Butler, Tu's stories, sent out with helicopters that occasionalþ set down among the fleeing troops and civil-
ians
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one of which extracted him
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"seemed palpably to change the mood in Saigon, affecting it with a deep sadness and above all a bitter anger atThieu" (the then South Vietnamese president). When Butler was writing The Fall of Saigon ^îu
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was believed to be dead, for, writes Butler: "Nguyen Tu, the journalist whose dispatches from the Convoy ofTears so demoralised Saigon, had numerous opportunities to leave Vietnam in the closing days of the war but missed them all. He died in Chi Hoâ, Saigon's main prison, in late 1975." HE man who rose to such esteem
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for his writing did not begin his reporting career in the south of
Vietnam..World He started in the north as the War drew to its end and Second the Japanese started withdrawing from Indo-China following their 1945 surrender. Soon the Viet Minh - a coalition of communist and nationalist forces founded in 1941 and led by Ho Chi Minh began a struggle for power, and Emperor Bao Dai abdicated to the Viet Minh, paving the way for Ho Chi Minh to pro-
oughly disenchanted with Ho Chi Minh and they left the coalition to launch hostili-
ties against Hanoi, Tu, then emerging from his four-month long incarceration, fled to the Sino-Vietnamese border and joined a youth organisation to fight the Viet Minh. Realising, a year late¡ that the communists were too strong to beat, he returned to Hanoi to work for the bi-week7y magazne Thanh Nien. By this time, the Viet Minh was starting its seven-year war against the French, which culminated in the French defeat at Dienbienphu on May 7,1954. The subsequent Geneva agreement ofJuly 21, l9541ed to a ceasefire atd the division of Vietnam along the ITthparallel. During this period of uneasy peace, civilians were allowed to move to whichever side of the ceasefire line they wished.
Tu decided to move south. It was, therefore, hardly surprising that when the communists took over the
whole of Vietnam after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, Tu's name was high on Hanoi's list of most wanted men. Hardly a week after Saigon fell, Tu was arrested and sentenced to 13 year's hard labour. When he emerged from that hunger and torture-filled ordeal in February 1988, Tu was 65 years old, white-haired, frail and with his right leg injured and paralysed owing to ill-treatment in jail.
But even then the
revolutionary
guardians of Vietnam's communist administration just would not leave the old man alone. Says Tu: "Once a week, two or three security agents would come to my house inquiring about me". That contin-
ued for six months. Then they let him alone, but still kept awatch on him. From then on, says Tu, "I began planning my escape". I¿st July, he quietly left Saigon for Haiphong where he went into hiding until a place on a freedom boat to Hong
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Vietnamese boat people back to Vietnam, So he began quickly writing letters to foreign journalists he had come to know in the days of the Vietnam War.
One of those letters went to United Press International's vice president and general manager in Hong Kong, Michael
Keats; another
to
French journalist
Jolynne D'Ornano.(Tu was a stringer for UPI and Agence France Presse during his long career.) So began a series of urgent communications that would even-
tually clear the way for Tu to gain refugee status.
D'Ornano contacted Arnold "Skip" Isaacs, Baltimore Søø's Vietnam correspondent (197 2-7 5) and author of the book, Without Honor: Defeat in Vietnam and Carnbodia. Now a political science lecturer at Towson State University in Maryland, US, and a Life Absent Member of the FCC, Isaacs, in turn, wrote to another former
Kong could be secured.
Vietnam War correspondent,
Once settled in a Vietnamese detention camp in Hong Kong, Tu started working on the second phase of his flight
I¡ckhart, who is now the managing editor of the Hong Kong Trade Development
to freedom. But his real problem was how to prove his refugee status to the camp authorities. He discovered to his
dismay that Hong Kong had already adopted a hardline policy of returning the
Saul
Council and a member of the FCC's board ofgovernors. From I¡ckhart the message went to another member of the FCC's board, editor of the Sunda.y Standard Karl lMilson, and to Fred Armentrout, an FCC member and the honorary secretary of the
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Journalists Association (HI(|A). Wilson assigned to this writer, the task of locatingTu.
BY ARTHUR HA¿KER,
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HERE was never any doubt that Tu was in
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Hong Kong. In his
lettet Tu had described his t r rrrvr
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arrival from Vietnam by
boat and his introduction to life as a boat person including his identification num-
ber. But the authorities dealing with Vietnamese boat people were hardly moved by the plight of Tu, who, after all, was only one
of a thousands of
unwelcome arrivals in the territory. No one seemed to know where the white-bearded,
frail old man v/as, though most people who had come
into contact with
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remembered him. Tu had I written letters to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and to the US Consulate, but neither was willing at that stage to comment on his case.
However, information trickled in through unofficial channels, with one
Clockwise frort aboue: Penny Mote and her newspaper reports; refugees at Sek Kong camp; dormitories at Tuen Mun and San Yick camps. -Phoros:John Ciannini
source describing Tu as the "most blatant political refugee ever seen". Illhen word of the news media's search for Tu spread through the Vietnamese camps grape-
vine, Tu started writting more letters this time, to the United Press International and the Sunday Standard. One of Tu's problems at the detention camp \¡/as that he was caught up, unwittingly, in a bureaucratic bungle. Like all new arrivals, he had been taken to the Green Island reception centre. But, due to a cholera outbreak at the centre, he and
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as a political refugee. Subsequently, Tu was moved back to
resettlement. Isaacs also launched
a
fund-raising campaign it the Baltimore Sun. At the same time, members of the US Foreign Relations Committee and Democratic Senator Clayborne Pell took
up the case with the US State
Department. In Hong Kong, Lockhart brought the issue to the attention of the FCC board and then FCC president, Sinan Fisek, appealed to the governor of
Hong Kong, Sir David Wilson, and other top officials on behalf of Tu. At
the same time, relief workers at detention camps were inundated with queries
from local and international
media
attention, everyone wanted to help him. The spokesman of the US Consulate in Hong Kong, Dan Streebny, received
authorities. Tu was locked up on the third
informatioin on Tu which he quickly
floor of this detention centre with 300 other new arrivals from Vietnam. But nobody - neither the UNHCR, Hong
turned over to the Hong Kong government. And Tu was taken out of the San Yick closed camp and placed in the
fied as a genuine refugee. Representatives of the UNHCR were constantly and consistently unavailable for comment. They were also reportedly annoyed with the Sunday Standard's first report on Tu on December 3, for they felt the paper had "singled out" one potential refugee from
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there was no doubt about
Meanwhile in the US, Isaacs and others who had learned about Tu's case were campaigning for his release and
other new arrivals were removed from there. Tu was then sent to San Yick centre located in a factory building and now run as a "closed camp" managed by the Hong Kong government's Correctional Services Department, that is, the prison
Kong's Immigration Department nor the US consulate - would say when he would be screened to decide whether he quali-
Tu's
thousands of others.
about Tu. Slowly the bureaucratic bungle began to clear.
As Tu's case came
to
officials'
newly completed Whitehead open camp
for immediate screening. All that the
prison authorities would say about Tu's speedy transfer to Whitehead was that construction of a new block had been completed and had become available for occupation. While that might well be the case, Tu was screened, in fact, over a period of three days and the Hong Kong government confirmed that
status
San Yick which had, meanwhile, been redesignated as an open camp where he was allowed to move about freely and to leave the premises during the day. And by the time this report reaches readers, Tu could well be on his way to a new life in the US. Once settled in the US, Tu hopes
to take up the pen again to work on
a
book about his experiences and those of others who have suffered like him, so that he can tell the world why boat people, whom he describes as "a new race of unwanted freedom seekers," will continue to leave
Vietnam.
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Penny Mote worked in London with Tod,ay, The London Daily News and BBC Radio before moving to Hong Kong two years ago. She is now a staff writer úth the Sun d ay St an d ar d.
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REMEMBERED YESTERDAYS
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REMEMBERED YESTERDAYS As the Germans moved along the coast
towards Alexandria, scores
Cairo the $/artime paradise
Egyptians and Europeans took the train south to Khartoum and from there made their way to Kenya or to Djibouti. You could pick up a piano for a song and a case of whisþ for half its official price. But there was no panic. lndeed, on "Black Thursday''
Wartime Cairo was an exciting city. Active combat was never far away, but cricket was played throughout the year and a dinner dance was held in the Turf Club six nights a week.
AIRO was the most lively and I^^ 'excitins citv in the world during \,, tt " Sec"ond world War. The fact
that active combat was never far away gave the Egyptian capital an additional thrill and a few unsuccessful air raids did
not disturb the well-guarded headquarters of the British and Allied Forces Middle East Command nor interrupt the night life of the city. Petrol and food rationing were virtually unknown and for members of the defence forces, or war correspondents,
travel by military aircraft or truck was
High-level social life tended to revolve around the British ambassador, Sir Miles Lampson, and his Italian wife, together with a handful of Egyptian families (mostly Christian) Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, who controlled the Bank of Egypt, and senior officers rich enough to entertain.
would make it, as masses of defence
equipment were, at long last, arriving in Suez and being transported swiftly to the Sttr Army in ttre Alexandria area. The second major crisis was equally
Europe progressed so the Esyptians became increasingly
pro-British 'was wrong.
correspondents went back to Cairo - I amongst them - in readiness for the "liberation" of Greece and the Balkans. Although the shops were still busy, there were no longer hidden pictures of Hitler around. lndeed, as the war in Europe pro gressed so the Egyptians became increas ingly proBritish.
Cairo remained prosperous with
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Lucky officers on leave, who knew
General Montgomery had opened his attack on the Germans at El Alamein that
often eccentrics, frequently found themselves in some unusual intelligence unit,
rooms at the Mena House Hotel, which was literally on the edge of the desert,
no mention was made for days of the
had been no panic before the battle.
Africa Corps' anticipated retreat. Un-
Cairo still remained the centre for
known, even to war correspondents, the resident minister - an Australian named
North Africa and western Asia but as the 8th Army moved further away from Egfpt, GHQ began to concentrate on the re-occupation of Europe. I recall a major
converged on the Smart's house in Samalet. (Sir) Walter was the brilliant Oriental Secretary and his wife, Amy, (nee Nimr) a painter.
The press tended to eat and drink at the Churchill Bar, which was in the same building as the censor's office in the centre of the city.
London in 1942, said, "It was like leaving to begin life in paradise." In London there were frequent air raids and a tough
but little as they planned the next trip back to the desert. They refused pro-
blackout with strict food rationing and inadequate heating owing to limited sup
ferred facilities to obtain good stories in Iraq, Iran and Palestine. For a time Randolph Churchill enlivened army public relations and obtained extra facilities for the press as few senior officers dared
Moorehead and Alexander Clifford drank
to refuse his requests.
Unhappily, too many journalists, after one or two trips into the Western Desert, tended to rewrite the daily communiques or handouts. Indeed, Dick Hughes openly boasted about covering the war from Cairo.
It is interesting, in retrospect, that only one official communique contained false information. This was when Force 133, commanded by Brigadier Barker Benfield sent two officers - one was Paddy Leight Fermour - to "kidnap" General Kripper who commanded the German forces in Crete. The initial kidnap went off well; but there was some
confusion about the submarine that was to pick them up and, in an effort to call off the German state of alert, an official communique said General Kripper had been landed by a British submarine in North Ærica. This did become true a few days laterl
Officers and men rushed back from
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lived together in residential flats.
beside the Sphinx and the Pyramids. Here one could hire horses and go for wild rides in the desert and enjoy a good swim afterwards. Little wonder the Mena House area, which was then served by trams from Cairo, was chosen as the site for the Cairo conference when President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, fresh from their meeting with Stalin in Tehran, talked with Chiang Kai-shek. I recall how people, who obviously knew nothing about conditions in China at the time, were shocked by Madame Chiang's shopping spree and the planeload of clothes, cosmetics and foodstuff she took with her back to Chungking. There were, of course; moments of alarm; and I recall, when I landed in an open boat in Alexandria, at the time of the fall of Crete, there was a chronic shortage of vehicles as well as ammunition. But
there was none of the depression one
experienced in Algiers, Paris, Athens, Baghdad or Teheran when things went
w:ong.
The greatest crisis in Cairo was then
the brilliant German general, Erwin Rommel, and the Africa Corps reached El
Alamein,
a small
spot for watering
camels, on the coast some 60 miles to the east of Alexandria. Many people expected the Germans to be in "Alex" in a few days and Cairo within a week. The desert at El Alamein was only 20 miles wide because to the southeast lies the Qattara depres-
sion, a rocky area some hundreds of miles long running from east to west parallel with the sea. It was impossible for vehicles, tanks and horses to move in the depression. As one general said, "It was as impassable as the sea."
controlled when everyone knew that
Casey - flew up to the headquarters of the 8th Army to find out from "Monty" what
hotels, bars and banks full, as soldiers departed and tourists began to arrive with such famous journalist as James Morris and Lenard Mosley, who were there to write articles on travel and
In fact, the British were
their way around, found themselves
hel1
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the troops, and officers could generally find a room in a hotel or in a "chummery" with friends. Four or five men frequently
smoke and the confectioners began icing cakes in German colours I was amazed how calm everyone appeared to be. Personally, I never thought the Germans
secret exercise to rehearse the Allied landings in Sicily. Increased attention was also given to Palestine. After a spell in Western Europe many
Writers and artists who, as they were
Here such famous war correspondents as Christopher Buckley, Alan
plies of tuel. In Cairo, cricket was played throughout the year at Gezira Club on a residential island in the Nile, which also boasted a splendid race track, three or four polo grounds, not to mention tennis courts and swimming pools, together with excellent restaurants, cafes and bars. \A4ren I first arrived in Cairo, the commander-in-chief, General SirArchibald Wavell, swam there every morning and was only too happy to exchange views on the military scene. In addition to the pleasures of Gezira, there was the Turf Club in the city; and Shepheards Hotel where a dinner dance was held six nights a week, in the enclosed garden, ending shortly after midnight. But the tradition had grown that the excellenljazz band played The Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square every night at 11.30 to remind officers that they had to be at their desks at GHQ in Garden City by eight the next morning. There were plenty of taxis, and second-hand cars could be bought quite cheaply as officers were posted back to the UK or India.
the Western Desert, Palestine and Iraq to Cairo for their leave. Care was taken of
when the top secret files of the Allied embassies and GHQ filled the air with
6l As war in
bogged down clearing minefields while Rommel was scrounging around for fuel for his tanks - as Hitler had neglected to send him fuel. But after the breakthrough there were no celebrations, just as there
A general, who flew to Cairo from
generally easy, if not always comfortable.
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politics, rather than
war.
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player by training and a cartoon-
attention to detail. One remarkable painting of the ladder steps at the top of Pottinger Street, leading up to Hollywood Road, was packed
ist by profession, unveiled last month yet another facet of his personality - as a gifted watercolourist. Titled Faces and Places, Dunn's debut exhibition had its premiere in Rogues Gallery at 16 Hennessy Road, Wanchai.
On view were quaint, but familiar, street scenes in and around Hong Kong,
with the kind of minutiae that would evoke feelings of nostalgia among oldtime
Hong Kong residents. This particular work had every detail down pat, from the Chinese shop-signs complete with tele-
phone numbers to the pavement tailor, fruit hawkers on the steps and the steady two-way flow of curious bargain-hunters and passers-by all through the day.
The Dunn portfolio displayed a distinctively nautical bias with a caressing fondness for boats and sampans and life at the water's edge around typhoon shel-
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Angeles Art Center College of Design. He studied cinematography under the late James Wong Howe, twice the winner of Oscars for Best Cinematography. Yung made his first iilm, One Day in Locke, a documentary about an old Chinese community in Northern California.
Yung returned to Hong Kong in 1977 and worked as a photographer and direc-
islands.
Awtumn Floods is a collection of 100
tor. He shot three documentaries in
pages of landscapes comprising 21 fullcolour photos. Each photo is juxtaposed with a page of Chinese calligraphy by David Chan Tze-wei, with English translation, printed on delicate rice paper. The booklaunch at Pacific Mall in Queensway was followed by the gala pre-
Indonesia for the late Brian Brake, and tr4hite Powder Oþera,for British ATV. He has published two collections of his photographs: The Tern'tination (1980) and Xinjiane. G986) In 1979, he made his debut ?/¿¿ System, a film about the drug syndicates and police
corruption.
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FOR more than a quarter-of-a-century, former Reuüers correspondent Graham Jenkins (righÐ, who is well known in Hong Kong as the founder of the now defunct tabloid daily, The Star, has been away from the FCC, an organisation which, he says, saved him from a death sentence in wartime China. But last month the 73-year-old
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the general manager of the Singapore daily, the Straits Times, which he left three years later to join the Honghong Standard as general manager. Iæaving lhe Standard in October 1961 he went into publishing magazines. later, in a joint venture with the chairman of the Sing Tao Group, Aw Sian, he launched The Star tn March 1965. He was the managing director, publisher and editor of the daily until Aw Sian took it over in 1979. The 14year old daily subsequently ceased publication. During his Reuters days Jenkins was an active member of the FCC and was a
maverick editor returned to the fold.
Now with the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, Jenkins began
his career in journalism in his native Australia at the age of 18 as the only
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paper which came out three times
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respondent in Indonesia'(1945-48). He was later sent to Nanking, China, where he covered the last days of the Kuomintang government. Leaving China as the communists swept to power, he was based in Hong Kong for a short period.
Robert Capa remembered
From Hong Kong he went to I¡ndon for a brief spell before moving to Africa to produce, as he puts it, "stories with unusual datelines". That earned him a holiday in the Riviera and three months in France. Then as the seven-year war between
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ORNELL Capa, brother of the illustrious Robert Capa, whose monu-
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mental war photographs formed the theme of a retrospective at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, proved a distinguished luncheon speaker at the Foreign Corres-
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The sprightly 7l-year-old, who helped to mount the exhibition, is the founderdirector of the International Centre of Photography in New York, a non-profit enterprise dedicated to presenting and teaching the crâft of photography to nonprofessionals. Each year, the centre holds aboú 24 major exhibitions, featuring the works of outstanding photographers. The most famous of them all is the Robert Capa Retrospective of 150 pictures. The collection, which took 20 years to assemble, has already toured the United States, Europe, Japan and China. Its longawaited Hong Kong debut in December was made possible by the Hong KongArts Centre and Canon Cameras, the sponsors.
about
Robert Capa's work, said:"He has proved beyond all doubt that the camera need not be a cold, mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
"Capa's work is itself the picture of a great heart and an overwheliming compassion. No one can take his place. No one can take the place of any fine artists,
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board member during the Club's early days in Hong Kong. However, his associa-
tion with the Club tapered off when he left the international news agency and France and Ho Chi Minh's army began to hot up in French Indo-China, Jenkins was sent to cover that war. "I arrived in Saigon a few weeks before the outbreak of the Korean \Mar, which completely overshadowed the Indo-China situation,"
moved into the local publishing scene. The move to invite Jenkins back to the FCC as a Honorary Life Member was started by the Club's president, Sinan Fisek,
who came to know a lot about the man from fellow newsmen in Hong Kong and overseas long before meeting him. Many members raised their glasses at a Club
says Jenkins.
Two years later, he was moved to Hong Kong and then in 1955 appointed
reception on December 19 to welcome the elder newsman. "I have many fond memo ries of my association with the Club and I
general manager for Southeast Asia. The
am happy to be back," said
Jenkins.. I
AFTER 18 good years in Hong Kong, Keith Shakespeare is leaving Hong
pondents' Club in earþ December.
John Steinbeck, speaking
a
week. A year later he was managing the operation when his boss became incapacitated by a stroke. His association with Reuters began at the end of the Second World War as cor-
Kong to take up what he describes as "a where? Bangkok! Shakespeare, a civil engineer by profes sion and a familiar face at FCC's main bar, is joining the Ba¡rkok wing of the Japanese
hardship posting". Guess
construction group, Kumagai Gumi. To Shakespeare, Bangkok is not altogether a strange place. He has visited the
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but we are fortunate to have in his pictures the quality of the man. We have his pictures, a true and vital record of our time
- ugly
and beautiful, set down by the
mind of an artist."
Cornell, like his brother Bob, was himself a Life photographer of repute. More than that, he also qualifies as
a
gift-
ed speaker and writer.
In a touching foreword to the catalogue at the Robert Capa Restrospective, Cornell said: "My brother was a photographer, a reporter and a passionate human being who was a keenly observant participant in the events around him. During his working lrte o122 years, he eyewitnessed cataclysmic world events. He gave himself the assignment to report on man's
1e9o
self-created inferno, war. For him, luck ran out in Indochina on May 25, 1954,
city many times, familiarising himself with everything that is to know there.
when he stepped on a mine and his role as witness terminated." There is also the streak of the philoso-
And it is with that unquestionable familiarity that he says, "I am taking up a
pher in Cornell's final eulogy: "During Bob's short time on earth, he lived and loved a great deal. He was born without money, and he died the same. What he left behind is the story of his unique voyage and a visual testimony affirming his own faith in humankind's capacity to ensure and, occasionally, to overcome." \4rhat could be more appropriate than that Cornell should devote the final years
of his life to the cause closest to his heart: the International Centre of Photography in New
York.
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hardship posting". J
This "hardship" is brought upon him apparently more by fame than anything
else. In the 18 years he has lived in Hong Kong, Shakespeare has been involved with the construction of several major projects in the territory - among them, Kwai Chung Container Terminal,
the airport extension, Mass Transit Railway, and Eastern Harbour Crossing. But he puts it modestly: "I have done my bit."
The Bangkok assignment, he 'Just came out of the air".
says,
Keith Shakespeare at an FCC farewell party.
The Bangkok Kumagai, says
Shakespeare, asked him if he would join them. "It so happened, I was about to visit Bangkok; so I told them we would talk
when I arrived there. And after our talks I thought it was time for a change, time to move on."
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MY FAVOURITE EATERIES
PE O PLE
Dtx departs
the stand taken by the Posf in its bid to
The South Chinq. Morni,ng Post, where a few top-level changes have taken place somewhat abruptly in recent times, was again the scene of change as 1989 rolled out to welcome a new decade. But, unlike in the past, the change at the top this time was not abrupt. Staff were informed almost a month in advance that editor-inchief John Dux would leave earþ this month to take up a more challenging
ensued.
serialise the controversial book Spyin 1987 and the court case that
catcher
what we were doing to secure the right to
information." Dux's career in journalism started 18 years ago in Brisbane with The Telegraþh. From there he moved to a Sunday paper, and later on to the Northwest Star Tlten,
in late 1977 he joined the
responsibility in Britain. He has been appointed general manager of News
Farrell¡ moved back abruptly to
Australia. A few months later, the then managing director Tom I-ennon also left. His departure was announced in January 1988 in a brief report tucked away on an inside page ofthe paper. The man who succeeded lænnon, Hong Kong-born and Australia-trained
Clarence Chang also returned
to
years with Murdoch's Chinacoast empire. In his new position, Mr Dux is responsible for managing The Tirnes, The Sunday Times, Today, The Sun utd News of the World. Dux, 38, joined the Post Publishing Group as editor of the Sunday Morning Post atthe end of 1985 and was appointed group editor-in-chief in mid-1987. During his four years at the Posl, Dux
Murdoch's Australian operations.
had revamped all sections of the paper and other group publications - T.lI & Entertainment Tirnes and The Visitor - as well as Íhe Asia Magazine, in which the
Dux's transfer is seen as a recognition of what he has achieved during his four
group holds one-third equity stake. But he will be best remembered for
Australia after a year-and-a-half on the job. Both Farrelly and Chang are now
working with SCMP owner Rupert
Singapore he will
Martin; but what seemed to have
Suzanna I-eung, his
travel-agent sweetheart for the past two years. Sam the Tailor has already measured him for his first proper suit. The wedding reception will be in the FCC. Marriage this month replaced
Howard Winn, who left the Sunday
Morning
tr IF Paul Marriage, the new financial editor of the Sundøy Morning Posf, looks more than pleased with himself these days, there is a good reason.
He is getting married next month to
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expansion
of the News International
newspapers in the UK, where new presses are being installed now.
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way to see India," says Marriage, "I liked the south very much, particularþ Kerala." From India he moved to Hong
expanded considerably," says
Indonesia.
ward to the new challenge, made more so by the approach of 1997, which will have its implications in terms of labour relations and employment laws. He will also oversee the ÊS00-million
stringer in India lor the New Scientist. "It was an interesting
tion to his new home base. "Business down there has
Singapore, Malaysia arid Indonesia. So, one of Martin's immediate task will be to set up sales offices in Malaysia and
Before leaving Hong Kong, Dux told The Corresþondent he was looking for-
scheme. In 1986 he left England as a
manage operations in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, in addi-
as their advertising representative in
moving to Hong Kong.
Daily Press in Norwich, UK, which had its own training
Southeast Asia operations.
prompted the assistant managing director to move south is thal Asiaweek and its sister publication Ya.zhou Zhoukan have appointed Martin Clinch Associates
becoming the editor about six months later. He remained with the paper until
to Singapore. He later became spe cial reports editor at the Posf. Marriage, 29, started in journalism after leaving university in 1982. He joined the Eastern
from the Sunday Ti,mes ofl-ondon to join the media marketing group, Martin Clinch Associates. He too is moving south, to the Lion City, to head up Martin Clinch's
in
the Australi.aø as a political writer, and later becoming its political correspondent. In 1982, Dux returned to Sydney as deputy editor of the Sunday Telegraþh,
head office was moved
AISO leaving Hong Kong just about the same time is Simon Martin who came to Hong Kong
Based
Sunday
Telegraþh in Sydney. The following year he headed for Canberra, first working for
International Newspapers Ltd.
More than two years ago, the man recruited in Australia to be editor of the daily South Chi,na Morning Post, Alan
World's Eeatest meat pies
Although the court case cost the Post
lot of money, Dux's main regret is that "no other media came out in support of a
Posú to
join a local stock broker-
age company.
This will be Marriage's second stint at the Posf's financial section, "Sunday Money'', which he first joined as chief sut¡
editor in May 1987 after leaving the Business Traueller, when the magazine's
1990
Kong and joined the
Business
Traueller as regional Editor. "I was lucþ to get thatjob soon after landing here, as it provided a great way to see Asia at no expense to me."
Marriage says that he joined the Posf at the right time. "The new management team had arrived after Rupert Murdoch bought the paper and there were a lot of changes to push the paper forward." He says his main achievement as spe cial reports editor was the expansion of the Proþerty Posf from a shoe-string operation into a money spinner with a niche in T the market.
by Mike Smith
ELL past midnight
and
standing room only as usual. A Y Y motley crowd of characters is gathered in groups on the pavement alongside Harry's trailer, enjoying meat pies and hot coffees alfresco. Chatting in the cool night air as nonchalantly as if they were sipping champers at the Governór's tea party.
Two fellows dressed in dinner jackets, together with a couple of befurred ladyfriends, near a shiny Benz; enjoying hot pies with a chateau cardboard dispensed from a box balanced on the car's bonnet. By Harry's trailel a docln¡¡orker in overalls
is making a great effort to explain the menu to two French sailors - not so easy to
do since new menu items were added to Harry's original simple offering of meat pies and mashed peas: now there are curry pies, hot dogs, chili dogs, meat pasties, mashed potatoes and cooked onions. Harry's - or Harry's Cafe de Wheels
to give its full appellation - is on the wharf at Wooloomooloo, a short walk downhill from Kings Cross. Not that anyone would want to walk - the Cross is seedy these days. There's never any trou-
ble at Harry's though - it's a favourite stopoff for cruising night patrol police cars. Likewise there's never a problem with transport - cabbies are Harry's best customers - there's always a taxi or two parked nearby. Everyone comes to Harry's - all occupations and social classes, politicos and visiting celebrities. Robert Mitchum and
John Denver stopped by a few months ago. Phil Collins enjoyed a pie and coffee after a night on the town. And where did Elton John organise a reception for the media after his marriage in Sydney a couple of years ago? The
Harry's Cafe de Wheels in Sydney and owner George Del Fosse (toþ risht) with Sydney based FCC member John Crawley and family. wharf neighbourhood. Harry's had to go. tour group lodging at a fivestar The local authorities have historically An outraged Sydney Historical Society took up the case on Harry's behalf. The made life difficult for Harry's Cafe 'Wheels, outcome was that Harry's was decreed a even in the earþ days before war, when Harry's was literally on wheels historical landmark. Embarrassed local authorities were even required to provide selling meat pies from a trailer. Harry's with an electric power supply and had to move constantly, up and down a car-parking frontage, in keeping with wharf. It was forbidden to remain long this new status. one place, under threat oflocal fines. The original 'Harry Edwards' is long an incident in which the tyres of trailer were slashed, the local authorities gone, but the legend lives on in George Del Fosse who arrived some 20 years ago relented under public pressure, from Buenos Aires. Like most Argentini Harry's was given a permanent site on wharf. (Legend has it that the slasher's ans, George has a passion for meat, and
hotel. de the Harry's the in After Harry's and the
namebeganwithan'H).
Then there was the time when local authorities decided to gentrify
the the
knows exactþ what a great meat pie
should taste like. Indeed, there's a big difference in flavour between Harry's meat pies, and the kind of meat pie
you can find in Hong Kong's
press partied in a marquee next to Harry's trailer. That was a great night for
pubs and supermarkets.
'With Harry's pies, there are no flavour additives, no starchy fillers, no preserva-
Harry's pie business, but there have been others. I¿st year's bicentennial celebrations brought 60,000 sailors to Sydney from navies everywhere. For one week, day and night, the world's sailors queued up and couldn't get
tives, no deepfreezing and no microwave cooking. Just good selected beef, cooked using
Harry's original recipe, and
enough of Harry's meat pies.
oven-baked fresh daily. Honest home cooking. In the old days there were
Then there was the time,
meat pie stands all over Sydney.
Now they're gone, victims of
some years back, when an
Oriental gent called in
around midnight,
and ordered Harry's entire stock ofpies for a hungryJapanese
the hamburger and fried chick-
en fast-food chains. Harry's
CC\A/ PIE WITH APOLOGIES TO ÞESPERATE ÞAN
Cafe de Wheels remains best meat pies in
Oz.
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CLUB NEWS
CLUB NEWS
Into the lùineties TIIE Club welcomed the NewYear, and the next decade, in
its traditional style - a dinner and dance that rolled into the NewYeads daybrealdasL Nearþ 3OO people gathered for dinner. Many more came for just drinks at one of Hong Kong's popular meeting places - the main bar - and to dance to the music of Mobile Disco on the Verandah upstairs. The celebrations began with members and guests gathering atthe main bar by about sundov¡n on NewYeafs Eve. Club member Derek.{.C. Davies, was there, among other camera bugs, to caphrre some of the action on film.
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33 RUEEER CLOÍHING DurlDg àn ¡¡¡ ¡Àld the latety ot tb. cltlzeE ùsy depend to a coD¡ldereble €tboü on hl8 knowledge ol how to behÂve, SDlasLiDg¡ trom tbe ltqutd I'berabd from certåln g¡-boûrb¡, o! !ubsequent contåct, witb lt, p¡oduce a serlous blisterjng ol úbe sk¡E, Tbe Coserm€nt. pÌovlde€ euch Ddlvlduol s'¡th a r€€pirabr *h¡ch h compl€Þ protectlon fot th6 eye., throet and lungs. Prudent ¡)eftoD¡, ll lorc.d to go oul ot dqorr durlng råld!, !hould provlile themlelves, {n,addltlon, s.lth ¡ubb€r or oihkln coêh end lut¡, eDd rubber boota,
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This is think of Taking great pictures is no accident. lt's a calculated act of art. And the new top-of-the-line Canon EOS 1, with its multiple modes and custom functions, gives the artist a superlative tool. One that offers the ultimate in totally automatic operations. Plus sophisticated manual control for fine-tuning each image. All designed to let the photographer work more quickly as well as more creatively. It features a new, faster, and more precise AF system with three focusing modes: one shot, predictive and manual. . For much more precise focusing, BASIS, Canon's new cross-line sensor. Even in low-light down to EV- 1, the EOS 1 delivers naturalistic shots. Of darkened rooms, twilight scenes and moonbeams. A speed demon, the EOS 1 possesses extraordinary shutter speed versatility. From 30 seconds to a red-hot 1/8000 second. A flash system with synchro speeds from 1/60 to 11250 second. And a film advance speed of up to 5.5 frames ppr second when using the power drive booster. From its superb ergonomic design to the litany of extraordinary features, it should be obvious this camera was designed with pros and serious amateurs in mind. So what's next for the camera of tomorrow? With the Canon EOS 1, you can find out today.
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