The Correspondent, June 1990 by The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong

CONTENTS

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PHOTO ESSAY THÐ war ended 15 years ago, but Vietnam remains shattered economically. Poverty, malnutrition and illit-

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eracycontinue to hauntthe nation. Freelance photographer and FCC membe¡ John Giannini who has covered Indo-China since 1969 toured the country recently on assignment with the US newspaper, Newsday. His eye witness account is this month's Photo Essay.

NorthBloch 2

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Road, Hong Kong.

Telephone:521 1511 Fax 868 4092 President

Paul Bayfield

Fust Vice-President

Peter Seidlitz

Second Vice-President - Saul Lockhart

EIÆCTION

Correspondent Menber Governors Joh¡ Andrews, Bob Davis, Teresa Gibbs, Robin Moyer, Chris Peterson, Claudia Rosett, MichaelTaylor, Steve Vines

Journalist Member Governors

NINE members of FCC's 1989-90 Board of

task of the 41st Board while Vernon

Governors were reelected for a new term. The new president, Paul Bayfield, outlines the main

reports on the annual general meeting held on

Ram

5, 10

May 30.

David Thu¡ston, Stuart \{'olfendale.

Associate Member Governorc

REMEMBERED YESTERDAYS

Ken Ball, Wendy Hughes, Peter Humble, Dorothy Ryan.

ALBERT

Professional Committee: Cowetot: PaúBayfreld, Memben: Peter Seidltiz, Peter Humble, Saul Lockha¡t, Dorothy Ryan, Wendy Hughes, Teresa Gibbs,

Stua¡t Wolfendale, Michael Taylor, Bob Davis

opening of China to American correspondents.

Steve Vtnes, John Andrews

Video Commitlee: o r: D æ¡id Tltur sto¡,

KAFR former FCC president (1974"75) was UPI

China. Now a news writer at Cornell University, he recalls the

Membership Committee: Social Committee: Contenor: Dorothy Rym, Memben: Te¡esaGibbs, MichaelTaylor

correspondent in Asia from 1952 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1984. During those three decades he has witnessed dramatic changes taking place across the face of Asia - political, economic and social. Among them, a change of attitude between the United States and

MEET TTIE PRESS

Co nu en

M etttb en : D or othy Ryan, Ken Ball,

South Africa: In search

Paul Bayfield

Publications Committee: Conenor: þully:r,l<har|. M emben: Pa:d, BayÃeld, Bob Davis, Wendy Hughes, David Thurston, Stuart Wolfendale, Ken Ball

Club Managen Heirz Grabner Club Steq,ard: Julia Suen

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tension caused by the apartheid policy of its white minority government, South Africa is now in search for peace and transition to a new order. The South African minister for minerals and energy, Dr Dawie de Villiers, who has been at the forefront of this new move, spoke of it at an FCC luncheon last month 18

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Itwas all in the Cards

Griphos

Video Club

Technology

People

THE PRESIDENTIS MESSAGE

0f politics, projects and committees HE MAIN task of the 41st Board of Governors of the FCC is not too dissimilar from that faced by the first board: keeping a permanent roof over our heads. In about two years our part of Ice House Street might look much the same or be a precipitous patch of green. More on the lease and its perils later. What this board is also on about is serving the FCC's varied membership. So let us know what you want. Either

direct to the board or via one of its com-

mittees. And if you think you have something to offer one of these com-

mittees then consider yourself

co-

opted. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the manager. Heinz Grabner, the Club StewardJulia Suen and all st¿ff members for their work in keeping the Club running smoothly over the past year. I lookforward to workingwith them during the nextyear.

Politics and the FCC IN THE past year the board has acted on behalf of detained journalists in Burma, Iraq and particularly China. It has also protested to the Sri l¿nkan government about the safety of journalists covering news there and has co-operated in publicising Amnesty International lists of detained journalists around the world. On the local front it protested to the Hong Kong government about its handling of

the forced repatriation of Vietnamese refugees and particularly its attempts to

keep these activities secret from the press.

FCC Committes this committee

puts together the monthly list

video club manager. The guiding philosophy is to

least once a month and report to each board meeting.

of new applications and

provide good alternatives

Professional

John Andrews.

LL of the committees will meet at

decides on membership

to the regular

status. Members: Steve Vines,

shops.

Canort's newautomatics

let the good times roll. Great photo opportunities often arrive like a merrygo-round. Whirling by. The air punctuated with laughter and cheer. And nothing lets you savor those moments

more than the high-quality, easy-to-use family of Canon automatic cameras. First, there's the latest generation of the well-known Canon Sure Shot line: the Zoom S and the Caption Zoom. Both feature a powerful new auto zoom lens. With a broad 38mm-60mm range and continuous framing. It's coupled with the innovative Smart Autofocus System. That combines spot sensors and an evaluative algorithm to actually pick out the main subject in the composition and focus on it. Giving you sharp focus at every focal length. Even of off-center subjects. What's more, there's an improved system of "intelligent" exposure control. That uses an advanced 3-zone metering

system to deliver a new level of reliability in handling any kind of light. With the Caption Zoom, you even get a captioning function. So you can print a message r¡ght on the picture. And it comes with a convenient detachable remote control as well. For great pictures at a great price, Canon also offers you the new Snappy Qi It comes with a timer function so you can hop into the picture. A Center Focus Filter that lets you add a dreamy effect to your photos. A built-in flash. And more. Whichever Canon automatic you choose, one thing is for sure. With Canon, the fun

never stops. 'Snappy Q

¡s called

that should be addressed by

Social Commitee: This committee organises the two annual parties (anniversary and New Year) and creates new ones. The functions do not have to be blockbusters. A series of small creative ones would be

the board.

ideal.

arr-

anges speakers, semi-

nars etc; deals with midterm board matters; fields food and beverage

queries and issues; reviews professional /political issues

Conaenor: Paul Bayfreld' M emb ers.' Peter Seidlitz. Peter Humble, Saul

Lockhardt,

David

Members:

Dorothy Ryan, Ken Ball,

Qqrnrnitt€e:

This committee

Conaenor:

Thurston.

video

Dorothy

Ryan, Wendy Hughes,

Teresa Gibb, Stuart Wolfendale, Michael Taylor, Bob Davis.

Membership Committee: Working with Julia Suen,

Conuenor: Dorothy Ryan. Memb¿rs.' Teresa Gibb and Michael Taylor. with ideas wanted.

Volunteers

Paul Bayfield.

Publications Commiüee: This committee oversees the content, advertising

and production of

The

members cannot afford to be compromised as they often are by the decisions of- newspaper and electronic media proprietors by an FCC with a political

year's committee looked at doing a history of the Club. Various costþ proposals were put forward

Projects for this board

and eventually shelved.

Ifs probably time to dust off the proposal for

Heinz Grabner and the

Ball.

Stuart Wolfendale, Ken

not

addressed directþ by the FCC, but left to the individual. The FCC can, should and does present through speakers, panels and The Coruesþondent magazine articles, the issues of the day. But correspondent and journalist

voice.

Overseeing management and selecting the monthly purchases of tapes

working closely with

Any other political question is

Corresþondenú. Last

another look. Conuenor: Saul Lockhardt. Members; Paul Bayfield, Bob Davis, Wendy Hughes, David Thurston,

Video Committee:

On numerous occasions the FCC has been asked to add its name and infuence to several undoubtedlywortþ causes, but declined to do so. The FCC's philosophy is to be actively involved in issues relating to particularþ the freedom of the press - of journalists. imprisonment or execution

ON to more prosaic matters. By far the most important project for this board is to have the lease on Ice House Street extended indefinitely. The lease is due to end earþ in 7992. Initially, the responsibility for this task will be handled by the professional committee is planned to break - although it(which out a subcommittee would include additional "members of influence'). Other strategies will be worked out within a few weeks. But it is safe to say that a meeting

will be sought with the government

soon as possible. Ifanyone has additional ideas please let us know.

Skerchbmk ¡n Hong Kong and Ta¡wån

CANON HONG KONG TRADING CO., LTD.: Room 1101-3 & 1121-2, Peninsula Centre, 67 Mody Road, Tsimshatsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong CANON lNC.: P.O. Box 5050, Shinjuku Dai-ichi Seimei Btdg., Tokyo 163, Japan

THE CORRESPONDENTJUNE 1990

THERE'S AIWAYS A STORY AT

THE PRESIDENTIS MESSAGE

THE HONG KO]IG TRADE DEVE1OPIUIENT COUNCIl

The professional commit-

tee has been

existence

since 1985. Its purpose was to

be a board within the board that could make (urgent) decisions that would need to

tbe ratified at the monthly board meetings. This commit-

approved the proposal, but

time played its usual tricks. Anyway it is now going to happen. We aim to have it ready by February next year. Wendy Gallacher will be the driving force ofthe show that will be written and performed

WANTED FREELANCE WRITERS

tee evolved into being the organiser of speakers. This time around its role will be

expanded somewhat to include looking after the

by FCC members. So whatwe want now is ideas, scripts and people (on and off the stage). No experience necessary. Contact Wendy via the FCC

lease negotiations; dealing

mailbox.

demands.

overseeing food and beverage

Video Club

queries, and reviewing professional/political issues that should be addressed by the

THE Video Club is now in the black. This means we have additional funds available for more tapes. To date, we have aimed to provide alternatives to the regular video shops. If you have any ideas on specif-

TRADE PUBLICATIONS With 10 publications of varying frequencies, a guidebook and a ser¡es of newsletters we have constant demand for freelance contributors, knowledgeable about Hong

As one of Hong Kong's ma¡or publ¡shers, the Hong Kong Trade Development Counc¡l needs freelance writers to keep up w¡th ¡ts

with mid-term board matters;

board.

The last time we had

forum, I think, was in 1985 on the Basic I¿w. We are going

organise at least three this

interest to working journal-

untapped sources please get in touch.

year on specific areas of ists. These forums (it is noto-

tapes to be ordered or information on as yet

riously difficult to get three or more speakers organised

in one place in this town) may evolve into seminars with two or three speakers. The first of these will probably be in August and will look at East-West relations particularþ in regard to the unified

Lithographs

THE Murray

Zanoni

lithographs of the Club on view in the foyer are still on sale. For a mere HK$1,000 you too can have a matchelss souvenir of the best Club in town.

economies of East and West Germany.

Something that has been on the boil (perhaps simmering) for about the last three

years is to have an FCC Revue. The last board

Suggestions IF you have suggestions or complaints please direct them in writing to the board.

Paul Bayfield

we mean. 0r contact us if you need details on any aspect of Hong Ko rg trade. one of our press releases, give it a good once-over. You'll soon see what

[Þvelopment Council !!3 }long KongTrade BUSINESS uLTIMATE Y0uR õlE PARTNER

OVERSEAS PRESS SERVICE - The TDC team is continually in search of more effective ways of selling Hong Kong overseas. The Overseas Press Service could use talented writers to put together original speeches and trade and industry stories. Contact: Frank Wingate, Manager, Press Services (Overseas), telephone: 833-4376.

fax

(824-O24sl

will direct what may

zoo night. become one giant - but scripted \trhat is needed nov/ are people with ideas or

got a good story to tell: no padding, no puff and backed by accurate, uplolhe-moment figures and statistics. Next time you receive

HONG KONG TRADER A monthly business newspaper, airmailed to executives around the world, needs freelance writers for trade, industry and investment stories. Contact: Debra Maynard, Editor, telephone: 833-4489.

of the above named people by phone or

HIS as yet unnamed display of dazzlng entertainment featuring an all-star cast of FCC members will hit the boards in February nextyear.

The HKTDC can help you make business headlines every day of the year. As a major force in world trade you'll find we've always

Kong, to write on trade and product developments. Contact: Saul Lockhart, Managing Editor, telephone: 833-4375.

lf you are a skilled writer, can work under pressure and meet strict deadlines, please contact any

FCC REVIJE

Wendy Gallacher

scripts. A little later more people will be

rls trItr

needed as performers, set and prop builders,

Hong Kong Trade Devélopment Council

make-up - whatever. No experience necessary (although helpful) to make complete fools of yourselves. Rehearsals should begin in October.

So pick up your pens or sit at the

38th Floor, Office Tower, Convention Plaza,l Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong.

keyboard and get those ideas flowing. The sooner the better.

ContactWendy via the FCC mailbox. Watch this .

space.

Zurich J A Furer lel: (41) 01-383-2950/1

THE CORRESPONDENT JUNE 1990 7

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ELE CTI

COVER STORY

C0RRESPON DIìNT MIìMlìb^R (;0\'l1RNORS

The new Board of Governors takes office Thirty candidates stood for election to the 199f91 Board of Governors last month. The new team, lead by Paul Bayfield, formaþ took office at the end of May. INE members of the FCC's Board of Governors were

reelected for

a new

1990.91 BOARD EIÆCTION WINNERS AND LOSERS IN ORDER OF VOTES RECEIVED

term

while three others failed to retain their seats in the 199G91 election held lastmonth. The new Board took office at the annual general meeting held on May 30. Returning to serve a new term were Paul Bayfield, Peter Seidlitz, Saul I¡ckhart, David Thurston, Bob Davies, Robin Moyer, Steve Vines, Wendy Hughes and Dorothy Ryan. Bayfield, the firstvice president of the outgoing Board was elected unopposed as president. Similarly, Peter Seidlitz, a correspondent member governor, was elected unopposed as firstvice president. Meanwhile, the second vice president of the 198990 term, Irene O'Shea, and two journalist member governors Cynthia Hydes and IGrl Wilson - failed in their bid for rqelection. O'Shea, who scored 108 votes, lost to Saul l¡ckhart, an associate member governor on the outgoing Board, by 37 votes in a three cornered contest. Among all the 30 candidates who stood for election, Ken Ball of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council scored the highest number of votes (195) closely followed by Public Relations Consultant W-endy Hughes (183 votes). The votes were counted and the results armounced soon after the ballots closed at 6 pm on May 10. Atotal of 386 Club members casttheirvotes, but 13 of them were declared invalid by ballot scrutineers, HubertVan Es, a former president, a¡rd Heinz Grabner, the I manager of the Club.

Remembered Yesterdays

Rosett WølI StreetJourna[)

Robin Moyer

Claudia

(Time)

(Asian

70 votes.

Chris Peterson (Reuters)

55votes.

61 votes.

PRESIDENT

Paul Bayfield (Far Eastern Economic Reaiew)

Elected Unopposed.

David Thurston

MichaelTaylor

Bob Davis

Peter Gwynne

Todd Crowell

(Sundry Post

(Far Eøstern

(Stock House) 49 votes.

(Asia Technologt)

(Asiaweek) 30 votes.

Møgazine)

Economic Reuiew) 50 votes.

39 votes.

tr4 votes.

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

ASSOCIATE

lllilllBlrR

GO\'IrRNORS

Peter SeidliØ (Handelsblatt)

Elected Unopposed

SECOND \¡ICE PRESIDENT

Wendy Hughes

Dorotlry Ryan

(Wendy Hughes

Ltd)

(Shetland Investments)

183 votes.

147 votes.

Peter Humble, Mollers'

Mike Smith

Insurance

109 votes

Brokers

(IBM)

118 votes.

DerekA C Davies (Emphasis) 50 votes.

¿t,

t ..$

Next month: S. M. Ali

MEETING THE IAST EMPEROR 8 ruB

coRRESPoNDENTJUNE

Saul I-ockhart

(HrcDc)

145 votes.

1990

frene O'Shea

Thomas Brand

(Communique

(Asiaweek

International)

Limited)

108 votes

82 votes

I H Fredricks

Ross \il'ay

Rachel Lavigne

(I H Fredricks &

(Mam

Associates) 99 votes.

Investment)

(Quebec Government)

92 votes.

68 votes.

Michael Fleischmann

David Shairp

(Freeway

&Drew)

Industrial)

50 votes.

57 votes.

(UBS Phillips

Clnthia Hydes (HK Philharmonic) 32 votes.

THE CORRESPONDENT JUNE 1990

-t AGM

REMEMBERED YESTERDAYS

A good year for the Club

When China "$ opened its door

Outgoing board fields question's and complaints about the Clubrs computerisation project, the state of the worl<room,The Corresþondent, andthe FCCrs tenure in its present premises.

Another feather in the cap for the FCC was its success in being able to secure for

Correspondents Club on May 30, 1990.

For starters, the plus-S0 turnout on a working evening dispelled any fears of the gathering failing short of the constitutional quorum. The only thing missing from this Iægco clone was the obligatory headphone and bilingual translation. The outgoing president, Sinan Fisek, who called the meeting to order, offered the good news: the Club's 40th anniversary year was a landmark event laced with profits and cashflow realised through interest from accumulated funds. Additionally, the Video Club also showed a profìt after its management was taken over by the Club.

This, naturally, drew the expected flak over the Year of the Computer, card-only

service for members, the state of the FCC workroom in the basement and The

Corresþondenf, which was termed a money-loser for the Club . Fisek came to the rescue by reassuring members that

the board of governors had decided to bear this cost as it was "a showcase for the Club." Fisek was particularly thrilled that the outgoing board, elected around the time of the pro-democracy demonstrations in China last yeal was able to plug in on a distinguished array of speakers giving the Club's luncheon meetings an extraordi-

narily high profile in the profession in Hong Kong and abroad.

Most notable among the luncheon guest-speakers was The Guardian's John Gittings, an eyewitness to the events at Tiananmen square lastJune. Other speakers included Liu Binyan. To get the issue in perspective, plans a¡e in hand to invite the new head of Xinhua,Zhot Nan, to address the FCC. If he

accepts the invitation, this might, in Fisek's view, encourage the governor of

Hong Kong, Sir David Wilson, to also address the Club.

Already on the short list of luncheon speakers is Zhu Rongji, the Mayor of

Shanghai and one of the top-ranking officials from the ruling establishment in China.

1O rrtr

coRRESPoNDENTJUNE

1990

fellow-journalist Nguyen Tu political refugee status and his eventual emigration to the United States. Not so satisfactory was the response from the Hong Kong government when the FCC protest-

ed against the treatment of the media which was trying to report the plight of Vietnamese refugees in closed camps and their forced repatriation to the homeland

theyhadfled. When the president and the treasurer, Ryan, invited questions from the

Dorotþ

floor, Michael Malik felt the auditor's report gave the impression that the Club's primary duty was to provide "bar and restaurant services to the members" at the risk of losing sight of "the profes-

sional reputation of the Club." Malik hoped that the new board of governors would address "the problem of the Club's premises, either the extension of its lease

here or new premises." The incoming board, he said, should set up a committee to approach the government.

Malik believed that in outlining this approach, the workroom at the FCC

þro

fessional facilities) would play a major part. Regrettably, this, he felt, had not been listed among the Club's financial commitments even thought the auditor's report had been approved. In the countdown to 1997, Malik said, more and more journalists and foreign correspondents would be visiting Hong Kong and using the Club. He hoped the new board of governors would do some. thing positive about the Club's workroom and facilities.

A committee comprising members who use the workroom, Fisek indicated, was already in place and suggestions made by them had been passed on to management

for

implementation and

action. Ryan made the point that a working journalist should work with the club's manager to obtain the best results. Philip Bowring suggested that the cap

ital expenditures for the next two years should be suspended until the Club's

money allocated for the workroom was inadequate, taking into account computerisation. He felt that the quarter-mil-

lion-dollar loss on The Coruesþondent could be better spent than on this publi. cation. Fisek pointed out that the accounts close on March 31 and the board approved allocations for the workroom at its last meeting. C.H. Raghavan felt The Corresþondent should be devoting more space to culture. Fisek agreed and suggested that members could and should help by contributing related material in the shape of aritcles, photographs and advertising. On the subject of the workroom, Fred Fredricks said that publications and periodicals were stacked about the place in a haphazard manner and "tended to walk."

He suggested that the news-stickers, papers, etc, be left in the charge of the video librarian. These suggestions, it was pointed out had already been made by the workroom

committee and would be followed

through by the new board ofgovernors. On the issue of computerisation, Saul l¡ckhart pointed out that the outgoing board was merely implementing a decision that had been approved by an earüer board. Ryan filled in the details by stating that the profile for going hi-tech was com-

HEN the door to China finally

reports from the world table champi-

must have

onships played in Nagoya. The lFmember

been day dreaming of a long

US team led by Graham Steenhoven, a Chrysler personnel supervisor, had

opened,

7971,

past weekend in Kamakura. During the Korean Wat a small hotel called the International, surrounded by trees near

proven to be no match against highly skilled players from Japan, China and sev-

Kamakura's Daibutsu, was a favourite

eral other nations. But those unknown

watering hole for Gls and war correspondents on R&Rfrom the Korea¡r front. One pleasant summer day in 1953, after endless

Americans were about to make world history that placed them on front pages and television screens around the world. In Nagoya and along with teams from Canada Colombi4 Britain and Nigeria, the American ping pong players suddenly

telephone calls from Tokyo, Rud Poats, United Press bureau manage¡ interrupted my badmington g¿ìme on the back lawn of the International and demanded that I hightail it to Tachikawa Air Base and catch the next military flight to Kimpo. 'TVhere you been, IGff?" Poats deman-

received a hþhly unexpecûed invitation thal seen in retrospect, became the first laying down of arms in the cold war. The People's

ded. "The war's going to end tonight.

Republic of China, whose volunteers had fought the Americans in the Korean War,

They're signing the armistice. Get there

invited Steenhoven and his players to partic-

rightaway." Eighteen years later, I missed the boat

ipate in friendly international matches in Peking (before itbecame Beijing). As Time magazine reported two weeks later, 'Túhen the invitation was first issued,

again.

April

was a lazy Saturday morning,

10, 1971. We had cleaned up the last

few US newsmen bothered to try for visas to accompany the table tennis teams, and with good reason. Foryears, veteran China watchers had become'used to requesting

visas via periodic cables to Peking and never receiving so much as an answer from the Foreign Ministry." Shortly after China s invitation to the US team was announced, UPI hired Geraldene Resek to string from Peking. She was the wife of one of the American players, Errol Resek, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who worked in the Wall Street office of Chemical Bank. On the telephone, Mrs Resek gushed enthusiasm over becoming an instant news reporter, but I soon learned that you had to question her endlessly for colour a¡rd detail.

\{ishtully hoping that AP had not thought to line up a ping pong stringer from inside the team, I was working that Saturday morning in the Toþo bureau, filing insignificant stories and as spring beck-

piled in 1982 by Ken Bryan and it took almost seven years before this could be formally implemented. And, in answer to several related ques tions and the workroom, Ryan said: '.\ile do have IBM compatible personal computers available. When the problems of

billing for fax and modem usage are resolved, these items will fitinto the reno

vations in approximately six months. Volunteers are needed to help." In the view of several members, pro-

ceedings at the Club's board meetings and decisions taken by them were not always readily available. After some discussion, it was agreed that these minutes would be posted on the notice board for the information of all members.

There being no further business,

Professor Chien Weichang of

Tsingþua University (centre)

with

NBC's John

Rich, AP's John Roderick, NBC's Jack Reynolds

and table tennis player Glenn

tenure was secure. Ryan responded by saying that provision for this was there in the budget. "It does not have to be spent and probably will not be spent until our

Brian Jeffries proposed that the meeting be closed. This was seconded by Hubert van Es. The outgoing president, Fisek, then introduced the new board to the

Next þage:

tenure is secure."

members.

26, lg7L.

Simon Twiston-Davies felt that the

Al Kaff (lefi) was a UPI correspondent in Asia from tg52 to 1975 and from 1978 to 1984. Over those years, he was based in Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Taiwan, Philippines and Hong Kong. Now a news writer at Cornell University in Ithaca, NewYork state, he recalls the opening of China to American correspondents.

rVernon Ram

Cowan. Time's cover

for April

THE CORRESPONDENTJUNE 1990

REMEMBERED YESTERDAYS

REMEMBERED YESTERDA man freelance photographer who was

Near noon, John Rich

oned, recalling pleasant weekends in

was on the phone. 'Tlrhere

Kamakura.

are you calling from, John?"

Suddenly, thunder out of China. The shock was so great that I am unable to recall whether the rocket came by telephone or Teletype. Only the message is glued in my memory: "Roderick and Rich are leaving Tbþo today for Peking." My god! Roderick of AP? To China? Breaching the Bamboo Curtain? A UP amateur stringer vs. Roderick, the China pro? No! No! No! Say it isn't so! To me it seemed unbelievable that John Roderick, a longtime China watcher who had interviewed Mao Tsehrng when he was a guerilla fighter in Northern China during the 1940s, and NBC's John Rich, who had left Shanghaijust ahead of the communists in 1949, actually had received permission to return to China. At least I prayed to the gods that it was unbelievable. togically it seemed improbable. No reporter from a major US news

asked, fearing his answer. In way, John replied, "I'm at Haneda,

his friendly, cheerful

Al." My heart plunged. Before they invented Narita, Haneda was Toþo's only international airport. I spit it ouü 'John, is it true that you and Roderick are going to Chinawith the ping pong team?"

The rest is history. Roderick and Rich flew to Hong Kong and, with several other correspondents, t¡avelled on the ancient imperial cap ital of the Middle Kingdom. Meeting with the journalists in Peking, Premier Chou En-lai smiled and said, "Mr Roderick, you have opened the door."

Rich was accompanied by Jack Reynolds, NBC's Toþo operations

organisation had been allowed in Communist China for 15 years. The Commurists did not even answer our letters. I could not very well try to get Roder-

ick on the phone to confirm, or better yet deny, the report. He was The Competition. So try Rich. His home did not

answer, and

the voice in his office

refused to tell me where he was. I left my number with a plea to locate Rich and have him call me urgentþ

manager, and a two-man Japanese camera-sound crew. Hong Kong-based corre spondents who were allowed into China with the table tennis teams were Tillrna¡t Durdin of.The New York Times, who start-

ed reporting from China in the 1930s; John Saar, a British correspondentfor Li'fe magazine; and Frank Fischbeck, a Ger-

'With

visions of an endless barrage of rockets from my bosses in New York a¡rd perhaps the end to my career (the AP-UPI labor union, the Wire Service Guild, did not protect employees outside the Uniüed States), I frantically tried to telephone Peking for a visa to maüch AP's coup. In those days, it was almost impossible to reach a Chinese government office by letter, let alone by telephone. To my surprise, I actually gotthrough to the Foreign Ministry. An official told me politely that United Press had not applied for a visa (of course not, I never dreamed they were

being given out) and that no more approvals were being issued for the

moment (actually not in any number for nearly a year, until February 7972,when President Richard Nixon visited China). I went home to nurse the disaster with a bottle of gin, Kamakura long forgotten.

BY ARTHUR HACKEÈ

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Around 5:30am the next day, the

overnight editor in the Toþo bureau tele phoned me to report that a telex had just arrived from Peking reporting the arrival of the American table tennis team and filed by oneJulian Schuman. Julian Schuman? lVho's he? Vúhy is he filing for United Press? He had sent identical cables to Washington Star and St. Louis

I cabled our foreþ desk in New York for instuctions. New York knew nothing about Schuman but agreed with

Post-Disþatch.

me that we needed all help possible to compete againstthe old touperJohn Roderick.

A few hours later, UPI received anoth'AUTHORIZE IMMEDIATELY COLLECT CABLING STOP MOVING HOTEL STOP TEAM STAYING THERE STOP SCHUMAN

er cable from Peking:

HSINCHIAO HOTEL," Schuman sounded like a pro. I hired him on the spot - sight unseen, and igno rant of his reporting and writing abilities, his accuracy, or whether he might taint the wires with a little political propaganda from the People's Republic. W'e offered him $100 a day plus expenses. Julial countered with a request for $150 plus expen$ es. We agreed immediately without the faintest idea how much a stringer could spend in Peking in one day. "It was a seller's market if there ever was one," Don Brydon, the UPI vice president for Asia, later reporüed to New York. "Schuman travelled from Peking to the Great W'all, to Shanghai and finally to Canton with the team. A1l in all, he did a very professional job for us," For 13 days, Schuman, assisted by Geraldene Resek, filed crisp, colourful and accurate dispatches to UPI on the ping

pong diplomats without

a breath

polemics. New York was so pleased with

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Schuman's work that we kept him on the payroll as our Peking stringer for several .Workmonths after the table tennis visit. ing through Charlie Smith in UPI's Hong Kong bureau, Schuman provided a number of significant articles that we thought gave UPI a bit of an edge in the daily battle of the wires. As for the other two news cables he sent on that fateful Saturday, Schuman told us that he never heard from the St. Louis newspaper and the Washington paper refused to pay for one article published until it received a letter from one of Schuman's friends, a New York lawyer. W'e later learned what Schuman was doing in China. During World War II, he served as US Army cryptanalyst in the Pacific theatre. I¿ter he studied Chinese at Yale University and went to China in 1947 as a journalist, filing for the American Broadcasting Company, Chicøgo Sun Times, Denaer Posf and a couple of Chinabased publications. Schuman remained in China after the 1949 Communist victory. I¿te in 1953, he returned to the United States and published a book, Assignment Chinø. In 1956, Schuman along with John and Sylvia Powell, Americans who published a periodical in Shanghai for which Schuman had worked, were indicted in San Francisco on charges of conspiracy to commit sedition, charges that related to writings during the Korean War. A mistrial was declared in 1961, and the government dismissed the indicûnents, Schuman appeared before the US $n-

ate's internal security subcommittee in 1956

and declined ûo answer some questions "on

the privileges granted me by the Fifttr Amendment." In 1963, Schuma¡r returned to China and worked as a tanslator. Why did he volunteer to file for UPI on whatcame to be called pingpong diplomacy? Some people claimed that China's Foreign Ministry assigned him to UPI. but he denied this. Schuman told us that he and his wife were going on a picnic outside Peking or,r April 10, 1971, when he heard that an American sports team was coming to China. He forgot about the'picnic and

went to the Foreign Ministry to request permission to get back into news work for American publications. After hanging around the ministry all afternoon, permission was granted. His first thought was to file for AP. But he switched to UPI when he learned that Roderick was packing his bags for a triumphal rehrrn.

Speaking of picnics, here is how United Press scored a world beat on the start of the Korean W'ar 40 years ago. On Sunday morning, June 25,1950, Jack James, UP's Seoul bureau managel remembered that a few days earlier he had left his raincoat in the South Korean Defence Minisby. He walked to the minisfy and found the place alive with activity. No wonder. North Korean troops were pouring across the 38th Parallel. For the next several hours, James filed a stream of war bulletins while AP bombarded its Seoul bureau with rockets, Earlier that morning, their man had left Seoul for a Sunday picnic in the countryside.

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PH OTO ESSAY

The war's over but the agony continues

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of the painful reminders of

that

long period ofbloodshed, death and suffering have now disappeared. Buildings and bridges shattered by American bombardments have been repaired or replaced, air raid bunkers have been converted into warehouses or put to other uses. But none of that means much to the average Vietnamese. Though the threat once posed by the war machines of a mighty enemy is no longer there, poverty, malnutrition, growing illiteracy, and the general misery that arose from the war and its aft ermath remain widespread and continue to haunt the Vietnamese. Iast year alone, some 50,000 of them braved the South China Sea to seek temporary asylum on neighbouring shores - mainly Hong Kong - as a first step to a better life elsewhere. ' Meanwhile, faced with an annual inflation rate of more than 700 per cent, the fear of the Soviet economic assistance

drying up, a¡rd, above all, a continuing US fade embargo, the Vietnamese Communist Party adopted, in 1986, a new

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policy for a process of change and renovation. That policy seems to be working, if slowly, says the Asia Bureau chief of the US newspaper Newsday, Jirlr Mulvaney. In a special report

published in Newsday Magazine last month Mulvaney, who visited Vietnam recently, says: "There are signs of economic improvement, but these are glimmers rather than

explosions." Accompanying Mulvaney on the Vietnam tour was Hong Kong-based freelance photographer and FCC

membe¡ John Giannini. A former chief photographer for Agence France Presse in Beijing, Giannini has covered Indo-China since 1969. He captured these scenes of life in

Vietnam during his tour with Mulvaney: CI o ckw is e fro m rþht : N guyen Van Tho holds up the dog tag of an American serviceman whose

son he claims to be;

Vietramese porters in Lang Son Province; Small-scale industry in Hanoi; Rerninders of the war

in Haiphong; Awedding in Hanoi; Children at class in a Hanoi shirt factory; The Le

family, who were forcibþ repatriated from Hong Kong; Fooþower reigrs supreme in a Ho Chi Minh City avenue.

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searc search m In Alrtca: Africa: South

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erk and Nelson e of South Africa as less - a relatively rent approach to an minister for mineen at the forefront Africa. Iast month,

tain steps to normalise political discussion, to normalise political debate, to normalise the political process to create a climate conducive to negotiation. Thus some of the leaders of a number

of organisations - among them the ANC, BAC and South African Communist Party - have been released, and allowed free political expression in terms of demonstrations.

Subsequent

3åË:'ff îiå':'îi'iql":'ii".ïJ rights for all South Africans; that would provide for all South,Africans to partici-

with the fact that we recently had talks

pate in a multi-PartY democracY.

ous negotiations on the new constitution. And, the steering committee consisting of the ANC and the government have found agreement and that we will ratify those agreements probably at the next cabinet meeting and when the ANC or its National Executive meets in the near future, so that it can be enacted and put into practice as quickly as possible. The ANC is not the only political player outside the National Party. There are many other leaders with proven support with their own constituencies. If it is the serious intention of leaders to create a multiparty democracy, then I think it is also essential that all leaders with proven sup

So even before the epoch-making speech of our president the National

Party got a mandate from the white portion of the electorate to go ahead and to negotiate such a new constitution.

The essence of President de Klerk's February2 statementwas to normalise the political situation. You cannot negotiate a new constihttion for creating a just and fair and equitable society for all if some of the

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(measures) were taken to remove other obstacles that still hindered the normal process of political activity in South Africa. I am sure thatyou are well familiar

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with the ANC to prepare the way for seri-

port should participate in the negotiations about the new

South Africa.'We are delighted to see numerous other leaders taking up positions and expres sing points of view. We hope

that when the negotiation process takes on tangible shape,

once the impediments have been removed, all political par-

ties will sit round the table to discuss a new dispensation.

Thus the government's, the ruling National Party's, views on the new South Africa have been expressed in our manifesto that was up before the white electorate in the last election. We know that the future constitution is subject to negotiations. It is not for us to put a final blueprint on the table. As a matter of fact it is not for us to put any blue print on the table

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at this stage. We will come to that, we will negotiate that. And, true negotiations certainly means give and take on all sides. But we believe certain principles should be embodied in that constitution. Full and equal franchise and other political rights for all South African citizens in a multiparty democracy. In a deeply divided society such as ours, with not only a white minori-

ty and black majority but a country with many strong divisions in its own ranks, many ethnic and other populations groups, we believe that the rights of the individual should be protected in a charter of human rights. We believe that the minorities in South Africa should be protected by guarantee ing true democracy through checks and balances in the constitution - as you will find in so many constitutions around the world where minorities have been protected against the domination or the dictatorship of majorities. That does not mean frustrating the will of the majority. All we say is that we are against that, we have decided and we have plainly stated that we want to move away as quickly as possible from minority domination, but we do not wa¡rt to change that for the tyranny of the majority. lV'e believe thatwe should seek a

democratic system in South Africa that will provide for the rights of individuals a¡rd minorities in a non-racial world and it must have provisions of checks and balances accepted by all.

So we face a challenging time ahead.

Yes, we have obstacles

still to

removed. We have committed ourselves equally to the principle of no discrimination on the basis of race or colour and v/e are therefore removing all statuatory

forms of discrimination, all statutory impediments, that still stand in the way of South Africans to participate fully and

freely in our society. We believe in an independent judiciary to uphold the con-

stitution and the rights of people. And we would like to see that inscribed in our constitution. We believe that the economic system must serve the best interests of the people of South Africa. The only system that can do that well is the free enterprise system with private ownership.

I know Mr Mandela and members of ANC are expressing in favour of nationalising the banks and the mines at the moment. But neither Mr Mandela nor

the government are the only

voices.

pline to reduce inflation and to get the economy in shape. That means we have curbed government spending and that's not always easy in a country where you have enormous social, economic backlogs, where housing, health, education and many other social economic services cry out for more money. The expectations run high amongst many of our population. Staggering demands are made on the economy and if we want to see a stable South Africa, a growing South Africa, a fair and just South Africa, we need to have a sound economy.

South Africa is endowed with mineral resources. South Africa could well be the treasure house of the growing economies in the years to come. Of course we still

need the products, the manufactured products, the clothes, the shoes, your home appliances, as any growing economy requires. And we can achieve growth for our people, development for our peo ple, improvement in the quality of life. We can together attack unemployment,

illiter-

acy, and all the problems in the field of health, housing and many others if we over come our difficulties and if we move together towards a new prosperous South 'We Ærica. can do that only if we get the kind of assistance and support required

from those who are prepared to trade with us and dealwith us.

Perhaps while

am talking about

trade, I must say a word about sanctions. My plea is not really that people should be kind to us and remove sanctions. Sanctions are becoming irrelevant because they are falling away on their own behalf. The reasons for sanctions have disappeared. They are crumbling. Businessmen in very many ways move faster than politicians and we can see it on our order books in South Africa. They have already discarded the era of sa¡rctions. But we say it would be a good thing to get out and assist South Africa to move ahead even faster. Some people say 'what about the extremists of the right and the other factions who start to polish their arms?'And I say, yes, we have them on the right, we have them on the left - people who would like to destroy South Africa. We can overcome those elements in the minorities by showing to the majority that peace and progress will benefit all. We have difficulties ahead but there is also a tremendous reservoir of goodwill in the country. Two weeks ago we sat across the table from

There are many other people, many other leaders, who have very strong views on

the ANC and I think we both left that table after 3-4 days of talks realising a

these matters. The South African economy is present-

tremendous amount of goodwill amongst all the people, all the leaders in South Africa. Following from that is the commitment amongst the leaders towards a fair and just democracy.

ly going through a difficult period. A period of adjustment where we have introduced strict monetary and fiscal disci-

It is not the first time South Africa has faced difficult times. To go back to when

the Cape was first discovered, it

waS

called the Cape of Storms because of the strong winds and tremendous currents and storms prevailing around Cape Town. But people quickly realised that it was not the Cape of Storms, it was the Cape of

Good Hope. And we believe that the South Africa of storms, of turmoil, of trou-

ble, of conflict is going to be the country of hope and progress - a powerhouse in Southern Africa, a nation that will very soon take up a proud position amongst other nations in the world.

I høue a few þoints to raise. First, why the goaernment has decided to abøndon or modi.fi the aþørtheid system? Second,Iy, whether or not the gouernment høs any þIans to amend or øbolish the dra' QUESTION:

conian þrouisi,ons ofthe internal security act, which þermits þeoþle to be detained indefi.ni.tely without trial? Thirdly, are the job reseraations enshrined in the Mines and Works Act and the still þreuailing discri.mi,nation for cornþ ensation for injuries, etc., di.saþþearing or not. We need tnore eaidence thøt the gouernment is actually doing som ething

ositia

thing of the past. It has disappeared long ago. In

DE \¡ILLIERS: Job reservation is a

mining, as far as immunity is concerned, all those things are now open to negotiations between employers and employees, whe ther it concerns the white mine workers' union or the National Union for'Workers. About the security legislation, one of the agreements made at the discussions thatwe held wittr the ANC was a review of all security legislations, That will be attended to in the immediate future. Vari-

ous aspects of that will come under review and we have approved a mechanism to do that.

Now, your first question, why have we changed. [æt me first state that I have no disagreement with our friends when you talk about unjust policies and I will sup port them. But there was a time in the National Party's thinking when we seriously believed that the most just way for a country with such major divisions, a multi-ethnic country, would be to solve

the problem of growing political

demands through set political freedoms. We believed that some form of confederation could come about. We can discuss now whether it was ever viable, but we seriousþ believed that the most just society would be one where the various peo-

ples would be able to have a certain autonomy or self determination. But we realised as time progressed, as the economy pulled us closer together, as demo-

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MEET THE PRESS graphic realities made it impossible to further pursue that ideal, that it's not only not going to work but that if you pursue it in the present realities it becomes more and more unjust. So, we have to change course. It is not always easy to come to such conclusions.

Iæt me just remind many of our friends here that we have a very special history in South Africa, where the desire to be independent and not to be governed by outside powers v/as really embodied in the Afrikaner republics in South Africa and in the Boer War. It was, then, really

the Afrikaner who fought the colonial po\ryers and freed himself, and the most

difficult thing to accept for us, the

Afrikaner particularly, was that the freedom we won 1ryas not only our freedom but that it must be shared with all South Africa's citizens, I think we have accepted -that. It took us time, but we have accepted that and we want to implement it as quickly as possible. QUESIION: Are you concerned that the antics of the South African þolice could undermine President de Kerk's reform þrogramme?

I am not worried or concerned about elements in either the police force or the defence force that could scuttle these initiatives. Yes, it is a given fact that we have right wing views in all segments of the society. You find DE VILLIERS¡ No,

them everywhere

you find them in

our police and in other security services.

Perhaps they have reasons why it's more difficult to persuade them otherwise. They have been engaged in a struggle for so long and now you change course. But I can say quite strongly that the leadership core of the police and the defence force have no difficulty in supporting us. So, I am not unduly concerned, though it is difficult to convince rank and file overnight that what you now do is the correct thing to do. South Africans, rightly or wrongly, look up to the north and to other African countries

when we talk about introducing

democracy. And they ask you 'where are

the examples that it will work.' If we relinquish power and talk about all these things, like a Bill of Rights, what security do we have? So they are not just against the trend, many of them are worried. But I think it is within our power, within the capability of the people of that country, to establish a true democracy. W'e must all overcome racial prejudices among both whites and blacks.'We must accept the sincerity of one another and we mustwork

together.

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Doubts over Hong Kong's future Robert Elegant, a former president of the FCC (1961) has been in and around Asia for more than 30 years as a foreign correspondent for Newsweek and the lns Angeles Times. Besides being the author of novels on China like Manchu, Mandarin, Dynasty andWhite Sun Red Starhe has also written numerous non-fiction books on China. His latestwork, Pacifi.c Destiny: Inside Asia Today, reflects the experience of many years writing and thinking aboutAsia. Visiting Hong Kong last month, Elegant spoke at an FCC luncheon. Excerpts: The last time I saw I have heard two extraordinary f 'M overwhelmed. I so many people assemble in my hon- things in this connection: First, that I- our at the Club they all wanted to Europe is going to take the place of

going Asia and that all that cheap labour in gath- Eastern Europe is going to replace ering with some trepidation, because I Asian cheap labour. That is one line. feel not like a specialist or expert, but The opposite of that one is that all that quite the contrar¡ considering the tremendous talent is going to make it a stone me. I'm not quite sure what's to happen today. I come before this

amount of knowledge that is assembled tremendous reservoir of new energy. here. I feel more like a Ph.D candidate Well, neither one is true and there is coming up before a committee. I am quite going to be a long period of development sure that probably individually, and cer- forEastern Europe, tainly collectively, you know a great deal In certain ways I think that we are getmore about Asia than I do or ever will. ting back to something that is not really Therefore you must be patient with me. sad, but will keep an awful lot of correInstead of talking about only Asia, I will spondents happily engaged, because we talk about Europe and Asia. are going back to the situation in 1914, or During the past few weeks, I have indeed before the Austro-Hungarian been in the States, Europe, and courtesy Empire became a unifying force. Ifs of P&O, have made flying stops to half going to be very interesting in the the ports of Asia. I didn't get much Balkans for the next 20 years or so. But beyond the ports, but still again you don't at the same time, more seriously, we are need to do more than that, Therefore I going to see the development of Eastern want to talk about Europe and Asia. Europe, and it isn't going to be develI think that in Europe, and even in the oped, necessarily, by Europeans and States (except for the W'est Coast), atten- Americans. That, I think, is something

tion seems to be swinging towards Europe. There is 1992, when the Europeans fancy that all of Western Europe is going to become a single

unit

that is very important. I¡ok at Asia today and the amount of power thatyou see here already. One of

the things that is going to happen, I

which it ain't. It won't become a single think, is that you are going to get a masunit until, for example, I can travel from sive Japanese presence supported by the Europe to Italy and use the same electric Koreans. I don't have to preach to the plug. And that isn't going to happen, ever. converted here, but I have spent a lot of The other thing of course has been time in the States telling people how the miracle of Ðastern Europe. (From my important I think Asia is. Always being own point of view I wish it had happened careful to say to Americans that 'no, I ayearlater, because it cuts into sales of don't think that it necessarily supplants books aboutAsia). Howevet the expecta- Europe but that we should give Asia tions have been immense, the expecta- equãl time in our thinking.' One still has tions of the Eastern Europeans who have difficulty in convincing people of that. suddenly found themselves free of an That is why I stress the fact that it's oppressive and brutal, and anti-intellectu- going to be Japanese, Korean, Taiwan al system. Also the expectations of out- money to a certain extent, and their talsiders as well have been quite remark- ent and energy that is going to play a able. major role in development of eastern

and is going to happen. Daimler-Benz, as you know, has been moving very heavily into Eastern Europe, which again means that the Japanese also will be moving in very heavily. Again nothing wrong with it. But I think it's something that we should be very much aware of. This interdependence is the thing that strikes me. We used to say that the American market, the whole thing, the whole revival of Asia, is based on American gluttony, which was and is fue up to a large extent. I mean if Americans were not gluttons, if Americans v¡ere a little less lazy and made a few more things for them-

Europe. That is something that people have not been thinking about that much, Since we now have this new centre of power I think that we have to look at what we are dealing with. We tend to think of Japan as the leader. But the day we left Tokyo, Roh Taewoo was coming over for his ritual apology from the emperor. But I'm a little confused because I thought Hirohito had already done a little bob and duck on the same subject, but this was necessary for Mr Roh at home. Mr Roh, having exacted his apology from Akihito, is very busily creating a Japanese style administration in Korea.

selves,

Korea, we landed on June 28 or 29,1987, which was the day that Mr Roh said that we were going to have democracy. Yes, they are going to have democracy, but it is going to be Japanese-style democrac¡ which is a little different from normal-

a specific example, take the American

club in Toþo., Some 20 to 30 years ago it cost about US$72,000. It is now estimated to be worth half-a-billion to threequarters of a billion dollars. This is true of all

style democracy.

I think that despite the hereditary

hatreds

- the Koreans

have good reason

for them - I think that you are going to find that Japan and Korea are going to work much more closely together in the future. The sympathies lie that way, the inclinations lie that way, and not least of all investment and trade lie thatway Japan, as you know, is by far the biggest investor in Korea. Koreans tend to do things in the Japanese way. I think if you buy something today that has been made in Korea, you are going to find that it has chips in it that are made in Japan. You buy something that is made in Japan, the chances are that it is

going to have Korean components. They have become that close.

You have, therefore, to think of Korea and Japan together, and to a lesser extent Taiwan, as a centre of major power. Some

of my Japanese friends were talking about 'Our Korea', 'Our Japan'. These are fairþ nationalistic types, but on the other hand one tends to meet more and more

nationalistic types in Japan today. For obvious reasons, they can afford to show their true feelings. I am not condemning

the Japanese; I am recording it. Why should not they be nationalistic, why should not they be proud of what they have accomplished? So I think that you are going to find

Robert Elegant kemendous sources of money. Somebody else, an American - I won't give you the name - was telling me that he was in conference with a number of Japanese recently, and he said that he thought that he might need a line of credit of 18 billion US dollars, and the answer was 'yes'. Not'yes, we have to talk about it,'but'yes, we know you and there will

be no problem with it.' We are talking

about that kind of sum! Even in these infated times 18 billion US is still a lot of money even for us vastly overpaid best selling authors! There is something else that may not have escaped your attention, but I would call it to your attention again. A couple of days ago it was German national day and we went to the party in Tokyo. Pleasant party. It was about half Japanese and half foreign because it was a diplomatic party. Perfectþ logical. But almost all the Japanese there were from

Mitsubishi, and

I think you know why

they were from Mitsubishi, but you must allow me to repeat it. Daimler-Benz, the biggest company in Germany and Mitsubishi have signed a treaty of mutual aid, comfort, defence, offence and so on.

The areas cited were: aerospace, in

AJapanese friend once told me the latest Korean joke, He says that the Japanese

which both are big, electronics, probably Mitsubishi is a little bigger, automobiles, and finally general trading. This was several months ago and they both found it

are all right, they are pretty efficient, but compared with the Koreans they are very lazy.T\atmay or may not be true, but I do think that you are going to get the whole thing moving together and they possess

necessary to reassure the Americans and to a lesser extent the Europeans that really, it was not much of anything at all and itwas not aimed at anybody. Anyway, this is what is coming about

that in Eastern Europe. You have this new trend and ifs a natural partnership.

we would not have had this

tremendous economic development in this part of the wor1d. And it has been fuelled by that. However, regardless of the reasons we now have the situation, where, in a sense, we are locked together. Take Japanese real estate. To give you

The last but one time we were in

Japanese real estate in general. The laotians, recently sold part of the Embassy at US$74,000 per square metre. Now most of the real estate people said that they got cheated, they should have got US$100,000 per square metre. The point I'm trying to make is that this busi ness of have a line of credit of 18 billion dollars and so on, an awful lot of this means that in the first place the purchasers are all leveraged and in the sec-

ond place much of the world's economy is leveraged upon this exkaordinarily valued Japanese real estate. There are so many loa¡rs that are ultimately backed by this. So many investments are backed by this. So we really are locked together and I hope it's a loving hug and not in a death embrace. We used to say, 'well, when things get

too good, the Chinese in Taiwan who like the easy life and like to gamble, won't become a real threat,' I'm not so sure that's true. The Koreans, we used to say, enjoy fighting with each other so much that whenever they reach prospereach other. Given the Japanese leadership of this group I don't think that they are going to begin flaking off or giving away to their natural tendencies. I was told to talk about the future but I've talked about the present. There are two scenarios about the fuh.re that rather bothers me. One scenario which I find very difficult to believe, which is that it just goes on and on for evel but I'm sure it wont WeTe all grown up in an ahnosphere of constant expansion amid inflation. So that lefs say

ity they will begin to fight with

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The 'new age' of information Francis Pearce says that in the future the electronic print media is becoming increasingþ important not only as a tool of the press but also as a source of revenue. APER, invented

in the Second

Century 4.D., may not be the print medium of the new age'. "I get all the news I need from the weather report," said a character in a Simon and Garfunkel song penned in

MEET THE PRESS I ately kind obviously life filing pieces for It's differe say.

s desper-

diffeient freedom

t most of my

I like to dä occasionally. the freedom is better. I don't think I could go back to daily journalism now, unlesJl had to. ting in front of a doing the same is that the dead-

lines are longer. Having worked for a wire service where we had a deadline

these treaties the Chinese

have

every minute, a daily where we had a deadline, say, once a day, aweekly once

a week, I've always found that the short_

pressure, you. Now ar- and- a -

very very QUES'IION: In what direction do you see Ta.iwan is going?

QUESIION: Whøt do you think about the

the 1960s. Fortunately foi broadcast journalists, the public appetite for information over the air has since grown at least in comparison to demand for the printed word. In Hong Kong, at about this time last year, a one-hour TVB call9d City Under g the

June

leadup to the ãrew an audience of approximately 2.6 million,

making

it the territory's second

mosi

watched programme of 1989. It was only beaten into firstplace by one episode ofâ highly popular drama series, according to media watcher AGB Research Services Hong Kong. __ Figures from Survey Research Hong Kong, part of the same group, show that

cent in 1989.

In the UK, which once boasted one of the highest per capita newspaper readership figures worldwide and where national, daily and weekly newspaper launches have become a regular event, the inde-

pendent Broadcasting Authority says TV is the primary source of nationai and international news. A recent IBA survey reported by Joumølist's Week, showed,Ihe number of people who prefer regional TV

would like to believe that

QUESTION: Ø

nicer life,

author than

don't really think that most

22 rlar. coRRESPoNDENT

JUNE

data. People using CT36 will be expect to be in reach of communications and

information wherever they go. _ The BBC recentþ took a new step in the direction of supplying mobile eìectronic print by initiating a ,pocket News-

flash Service' in conjunction with the UKs Mercury Paging. An average of 12 newsflashes per day will be tranimitted to subscribers' pagers, as they are

. Yo.r cannot print silence but you can 'print'and store facts that are available immediately to the people who need

entered into the BBC Ceefax teletext sys tem. But this is really only the sta¡t.

newswire and the electronic information

device called aData Discman not much bigger than a Walkman portable stereo

them. That

is the function of the

feeds provided by companies such as Telerate, Knight Ridder and Reuters. The combination of print and electronic media in the form of onüne databases

which can be accessed over the tele-

phone line also provide vast funds of

want of a better term

will

become

- only as a tool increasingly important not of the press but as a source of revenue.

Videotext systems which relay .broadcast text to interactive television sets have largely failed to create mar-

kets for electronic print but that does not alter this picture. The technology was unwieldy, and outside Franðe where thousands of- Minitel videotext systems were given away it was - mobility expensive. It also restricted the of its audience. A newspaper is mobile. You_ can roll it up and put it in your pocket; you can clip an article and fax it

On May 15 Japan's Sony unveiled

an on er

isk read comput_

CD can

hold 200 m equivalent

claims that publishers will be available when the

machine goes. to market in Japan in July To gauge the importance of that development it has to be viewed in the context of a general move by tel&ommunications

providers around the world towards

putting full motion video and data communications on the telephone network and of computer manufacturers towards

creating'multimedia' systems handling similarly varied information

Technology star gazers predict that Digital Audio Tape recorderÀ, which can

sions by satellite.

to your business contacts.

Hong Kong is going to be OK but I don't quite see how it can possibly be alright. I am not saying there isn't going to be money to be made, but I ca¡not see a ter-

esting.

asier to check facts and

figures stated in nev/spaper reports, there's no doubt that TV aìd radio aró

newspaper readership has slipped in

Hong Kong recentþ While TT per cent of over-9 year olds questioned in 1987 said they had read a newspaper the day before, the number had fallen to Z4 per

future of Hong Kong? ELEGANT¡

er. AGB says City Under highly unusual.

ELEGANT: Well,

ta an

I miss the money, I must

broadcast local and international news and current affairs is rising. Of course there are lies, damned lies and statistics. If it is true that more than 98 per cent of Hong Kong households have a television set, compared with 9b per cent ]n 7979, the amount of broadcast information actually being absorbed in the territory should be on the rise, but TV appears to be used here mainly as

Demand for information is likely to grow in the next two decades if only as a business weapon and so is the use of mobile tele and-datacommunications

equipment by the public. Hutchison Telecommunications in Hong Kong

reckons that by the late 1990s morõ than _1.5 million people in the territory could be using a new generation oî portable pocket telephone systems

known as CT36 now being testeã in the UK. They will be equipped ìvith built-in pagers and will no doubt be capable of sending and receiving computerised

r Francis Pearce

1990

TTIE CORRESPONDENTJUNE 1990

PE O PLE

PEO PLE recalls: "As a young journalist, I was fascinated to see how a major news story was

Foote heads for home

handled. As a human being, I was deeply moved by the tragic event which even then was being dubbed the'end of Camelof." In 1965, Foote was back in Hong Kong to fulÍll an earlier understanding he had with Jenkins: that is, to work on a tabloid

FTER almost 30 years of assocation with Hong Kong, a long-time FCC membet Michael Foote, has decided that it is about time that he rede veloped his roots back in his native Australia. Foote headed Down Under earþ

daily which Jenkins was planning to launch. But the association with the

this month.

ing his fortune in the newspaper business. Although that dream was not realised, he attributes his success in public relations and marketing to the training he received as on ajournalist. Armed with the journalistic experience gained working for the Adelaid'e

N¿øs, Foote joined what was then the Honghong Ti,ger Standørd. And there began his association with well-known

media figure and publisher, Graham Jenkins, who was then general manager ofrhe Støndard. A year later, says Foote, "I \ryas on my

bike" to Europe. What he remembers most about that trip, but would rather forget, is that a few friends and he decided to travel by boat because it was cheaper than soing by air. 'lMhatwe failed to appreciate,

there was a bar on board," he recalls.

'Ttrhen we reached England, our bar bill amounted to twice what the air fare would have cost!" In Europe, he firstworked a short stint as personal assistant to the executive director ofthe International Press Insti tute in Zurich before heading back to I¡ndon to join the Sketch and, later United Press International. Foote's first day at UPI was the daY President Kennedy was assassinated. He

ffii"i imum points scored in the dice game,Yantze, stood for nearþ 10 years, established by the late Max Lucas when the Club was still in Sutherland House. Yantze, now the preserve of the Basement/Poolroom Bar, has been gaining in popularity over the past few years, making it inevitable that Lucas' record of 610 points would one day be broken. But what is a bit surprising is that the long-standing record should be smashed not once but twice in one week, and not by regular Yantze punters, but by relatively new devotees, Keith Statham and

Jonathan I¿tham. Statham was the first to crack the record with a score of 611 points. He started in superb form by "cold-flopping" (all in one try) Yantze (5 of a kind) - in this case, 5 fives, which earned him 150 points (50 points, plus the face value, doubled for getting it all in one flop). To his own arnazment a¡rd the conster-

rns, coRRESPoNDENTJUNE

1990

Noel Quinlan and Clril Durup - Stathamwent on to cold-flop red flush (all the reds, 50 points), low straight (40 points) and four of

kind

(4 fives, 40

points).

Statham was unstoP pable as he powered ahead to score a high straight, a full-house and three of akind. At the end, he had to score only 3 fours to achieve a perfect game (all variations and bonuses scored). He failed to ,- -. gãt *y ióu.. in his first Keith stratham to roll 3 two tries, but was incredibly luclcy -: fours in his last try, for a truly rare perfect game.

I¿tham, for his part, did not have a perfect game but managed to PiP Statham by four points on the strength of

spare.

Rehousing was the most important government programme in the early fifties. An unprecedented drive was launched in the wake of disastrous fires in the Kowloon squatter camps. There was a whole range of other initiatives in the field of social

changed all that. He realised the

welfare which had hitherto been

Then came, he says, "an offer I couldn't refuse" from Mont Blanc, the makers of luxury pens and Hong Kong

influx of refugees from the commu-

neglected.

become, once again, his home base. He rehrnedto HongKongas managing director of Montblanc Pacific Distributors Ltd. But he is now destined for even greater heþhts as he has been awarded the distrib

utorship of Mont Bla¡rc in Auskalia. So, it seems like full circle for Foote as he moves back Down Under, but he admits that his love affair with Asia is not over yet.

ment Public Relations Office to tell the people of Hong Kong how government planned to meet the challenge. Two expatriates were brought in, both formerþ in China, to run the

'There comes a time when one has to

malig¡ed GIS. The first man to take charge of the Government Public Relations Office was the late J. L. (Jock) Murra¡ formerly British government press officer in what was then known as Canton. His

make a decision'."

r Cyril Durup

bigger scores on his cold-flops.

He registered 5 sixes (160 points) in his first

try

followed by cold-flops

in high straight (50 points), full-house (3 sixes and 2 fours 52

points), maximum three of a kind (3 sixes, 36

points) and maximum

two pairs (2 sixes, two

fives 44 points).

I¿tham then went on to score an Eebee (get-

ting all the

bonuses).

The only fly in the oint-

ment

in his

quest to

achieve a perfect game was his failure to get a red flush. However, his total score amounted to 615 points to become a new Club record. Iæfs see now how long it is before this score is bettered.

Cyril Durup

experienced official, mind you, one of the last professionals in the job." The Governor was anxious to pro mote Hong Kong's image abroad. He insisted that the colony could no

new organisation. Total staff was about ten, including translators, typists and messengers.

But from this minuscule outfit grew

as Peter Bennett succinctþ put it:

"Grantham wanted to make the Hong Kong government accountable," says Stan, an unabashed admirer of the late governor. "He thought it essentiál to keep a finger on the public pulse. He was a very

nist revolution on the mainland would transform what had been, until then, a colonial backwater. A first step was to set up a Govern-

'You don't give 30 years of your life to this place and just walk away clean. But,

latham sets a record nation of his fellow punters - Barbara Waters,

ed aboard a cross-harbour ferry.

Motor-cycle police raced the speech to the podium with moments to

T WASN'T until 1950 that the Hong Kong government felt any pressing need to sell its policies to the public. Before that the colonial government had gone its own autocratic way, projecting power through an amenable Iægco, answerable only, in extremis, to the ma¡rdarins inWhitehall. Governor Sir Alexander Grantham

ITI Galitzine Marklin, RankXerox, and I¡rillard before starting his own marketing consultancy service inTaiwan.

was that the journey took three weeks and

An all-points alarm went out. Police combed the colony. The edi tor, briefcase and speech were locat-

newly-founded daily, The Star, lasted for only for about 12 months. In the following

years, he worked with

Foote's association with Hong Kong began in 1962. Then 21 years old; he arrived in the territory with "a suitcase in hand and a pockefful of dreams" of mak-

faced with some delicate ad-libbing.

Early days $'ith the GIS

longer remain just an entrepôt, a mere appendage to a now-hostile mainland. Industrial development

the present-day Government Information Services, the omniscient and oft-

second in command was Stan Knowles, who had until lately been British press officer in Shanghai. The communists gave Knowles a hard time when they captured Shanghai. He was held for 18 months while Beijing put the squeeze on Britain; the man who had urged (and helped) many people to escape to Hong Kong before the communist take-over was subject to

constant brow-beating as his former staff demanded compensation for loss of employment.

An exit visa was eventually obtained with the help of a newly-recruited member of China's foreign service, a wartime Nationalist charge d'affaires in Canberra, and husband of the noted Nien Cheng who laterwon accTurnfor l:ife ønd Deøth in Shanghøi, a moving description of her i1ltreatnent during the Cultural Revolution. "I don't suppose many people in Hong

Kong remember those days,"

Stan

Knowles remarked recently. "I don't sup pose they remember me either." The co-founder of the GIS has been living in Sydney since his retirement in 1965. OnJune 23 he celebrates his 80th

Stan I(nowles

birthday. 'You have to give old Grantham all the

credit," Stan recalls. "He knew Hong Kong couldn't stand still. It was a real

I there - a village compared with Shanghai. Everything closed down at noon and didn't reopen sleepy hollow when until mid-afternoon."

Their first priority at the Public Relations Office was establishment of a trans lation service. The Chinese press had previously been virtually ignored. A daily information sheet was put out in Chinese (and English) to give a "fair and reasonable account'' of what the government was doing.

was essential and that meant atkacting investment. Stan Knowles remembers many a

wild night at ihe old FCC on Conduit Road. Habitues he recalls with respect

and affection include Til Durdin, Henry Lieberman of. the New York Ti.mes, Graham Jenkins and Ian McCrone, (AAP/ Reuters), Frances

I-ara, (AFP.), Frank Robertson of the London Dai.ly Telegraþh and Bill Stevenson of.the Toronto Sta.r. There was even a young fellow called

Russell Spurr, representing the l¡ndon Daily Exþræs. The Government PR Office grew to absorb Radio Hong Kong. Film censorship came under its expanding umbrella. A film unit was set up to make govern-

This proved to be immediately popular. But it could still pose problems. Stan Knowles will never forgetthe daythe PR Office mislaid the speech by the Secretary of State for the Colonies Oliver Lyttleton, later Lord Chalfont' had flown in from I¡ndon to make some important pronouncements to business and civic leaders. The English text of his speech was whipped away for translation. No one in the office knew they'd been given the only copy. A Chinese newspa-

ment documentaries. Government departments were ultimately persuaded to channel all news releases through the small office suite in Gloucester Road. In 1957 the PR Offlce moved into Bea-

per editor dropping by the office picked up the English speech, along with the Chinese version, and carried it offin his

an enormous, bellowing adult." You could saymuch the same aboutthe GIS.

briefcase. The VIP from London was

consfield House and became the GIS. retired in 1965 after 15 years in Hong Kong. He moved to Australia with wife Fay, a working member of the Red Cross Stan

and prominent local flower arranger.

Hong Kong has since grown "from a

cryng child," in St¿n Knowles words "to

rRussell Spurr TIIE CORRESPONDENTJUNE 1990

CLUB NE\MS A memorable

bV Cyril

Durup

AMA MIA! What

a flyaway fun thing the Volare Italian evening

at the FCC turned out to be. Even before the night itself (May 2bth), it was sold out, with quite a few Club members and their guests, this writer included, being put on standby. Club manager Heinz Grabner fìnally came to the rescue with an eleventh-hour

decision to open up the lower terrace. That turned out to be a blessing in dis-

lucþ enough to be placed there, as they could eattheir dinner in relative quietness without having to compete for the attention of waiters whenever they guise for those

wanted service.

The FCC notice had promised nostalgic Italian music from the "romantic and rocking 50's and 60's," leading one to believe there would be a surfeit of Mario Lanza,'[ino Rossi, Dean Martin or even Frank Sinatra.

But no sirree.... Sweet Italian ballads such as Volare or That's Amore were not to

be heard. Instead, we got Pavarotti coming out of our ears. Not that Pavarotti is

The Club's Italian evening turns outto be agreat success.

spice to the dinner.

Conti di San Polo, known in short as Caio, to give the kiüchen staff a crash course in

unpleasant to the ea¡ but it's just that some variety would have added a bit of

Ah, the dinner..... Except for the

starter, Itnalata di Pere þarmesan cheese and pear salad with olive oil), and perhaps

very weak perhaps at that

- the main

dish, Gamberoni ølla Busara con Polenta (king prawns flamed with cognac and coated with a white wine tomato sauce,

served with corn meal), the rest of the offerings were ordinary, to say the least. No offence to FCC Chef Alan Chan, but maybe his staff could have done with a few more lessons from maestro de cuisine, Caio St. Polo, an Italian count no less, who

Italian cooking; and it was Chard who went around on the evening itself, promot-

palate.

shoe laces.

After dinner, those guests who came not just to partake of the food and wine, repaired to the upper terrace to dance the evening away. The disco music was uncannily devoid of any Italian flavour, unless one were to count the occasional rendi-

What Chard could not promote, however, was the Italian wines on offer.

While the reds, Refosco Graue del Fruiti 1987, San Giorgio dell' Umbria 1982 and Vino Nobile di Monteþulciano 1986 were delightful enough, the whites were nothing more than unadulterated

the Italian consul-general was heard to murmur u¡der his breath that he had never tasted Italian food quite like that

entire affair came off rather

well.

INTERNATIONAL

before, all credit for the success of the evening, culinary or otherwise, mustgo to

the FCC's own Italian

who produced Giorgio Claudio Maria dei

tions from Madonna. But, overall, the

he was still vice presidenf'. .Whereas

Probably the best beerintheworld.

Sambuca, Graþþa Gran Cauit, Liqaore Strega and Amaretto - to titillate the

ing Italy right down to his very Italian

has cooked for many world celebrities, including President George Bush, "when

ambassador-atlarge, Roberto Chard. It was Chard who was jointly responsible for suggesting an Italian night as a pre lude to the 1990 \{'orld Cup; it was Chard

plonk, if there is such a thing. Still, there were the superb digestifs

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THE CORRESPONDENTJUNE 1990

IT WAS IN THE CARDS

CLUB NE\MS

by Mike Smith

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was fought out

SHEY, Penns¡

between

Manchester, United and Crystal Palace. This month the.World Cup tournament started in Rome, and some 1.3 billion TV viewers are watching it live. Way back in 1909, as the cards relate, when Manchester United first won the

U.S. national

I the World Fo

thùt

trc lbrwüd, broke the I¡stue Imr(i ot 9l go¡ls. Dùing the scrpn refened to, league ma AoalE,

whi,

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commendable performance at the I- Carlsberg Media Golf Classic 1990 in April. Twenty-eight members went to

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Society did not take home the important trophies, it fought a good fight at Canlubang. The results:

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CARI,SBERG GOIÌ' SCRAMBIÆ

Winner: Lito Tajucan, Philiþþine Star.

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1990 at Canlubang.

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More of tl t wat

FA Cup, a mere 71,000 fans saw the 6,000 pounds.

Cigarette cards:

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th renewed cor le boost v

game and receipts were

Participants at the Carlsberg Media Golf Classic

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Stableford Points (2G20)

Runner-up: David Hodges, Freelance Stableford Points (21-16)

(Philippines).

Hidden Holes: Lito Tajucan

Stableford Points (1&18)

Duffer Award: Mike Foote (Hong

l¡w.

35 Stableford Points (17-18)

Best Front 9: John lænaghan (Ihaila¡rd),

Ray Cranbourne (Hong Kong), Dave

I'tl¡¡ P¡ulu lllùt

(3-11-17). 9

Stableford Points

Kong). I Slableford Point

Longest Drive: Frank (Philippines). Hole 11

up. Moynihan asked for thd\ bctwecn police and sæceri.

Miller

h, Êngland, on Soturday

FW StoL Ciry Sñ! phycr who h{ øra dah¡ to ùq frcDr d{¡i!g th. Fsl ydü w. Hê b. "sin8cr " who wh m rimc on rfdll3," h vùy qück ud .lcv.r d bos r¡ìEr Sclt *h Mc.. S.l.qG for t@r ro qñr Eqbd hvê thci! ôy.i oû h Thê

woilld bå-lroa lroùì dlhtorblon,

Third Place: John Chadesworth, Advertising Executive based in Thailand. 36 Best FCC (Hong Kong)Score: Robert

sr^tLEr ¡^tIhEws

Photographer based in Philippines. 37

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1990

TTIE CORRESPONDENTJUNE 1990

When

the solution

puzlled,everyone Irene O'Shea was declared in the May issue of 1l¿¿ Corresþondenú as the winner of Crossword No.23. But what was indicated as the winning solution must have puzzled everyone including the winner. Six entries were received for Crossword

No.23 O'Shea's entry arriving- bV frx to beat the deadline. The editor, who was in Manila atthe time the May issue went to prinÇ has no clue as to how the correct solution failed to show on the page. But before Graham Mead figures it all out for another bottle of Chivas, here is the

correct solution to Crossword No. 23:

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(4,4) 5.

In the zoo monkeys make a

loud noise (4)

Tubby brass instrument (4)

Carol and Melody put on a¡r

10.

informal concert (8)

Boars manage to savage some of the crew (7)

12.O.PT is distraught, assu-

meitisfue

(5)

13.Ifyou oscillate in five directions you get A-plus (6)

"I'm merging with part of the light

15.She said

- -

rightin the

(2,6) 23. Small moùorwayhas

prime

direction (4)

May'sway (5) ll.Tom's crymaybe (5)

Because if

12.

not backwards. These charts are just a summary of studies by Diagnostic Research, Inc. among usem and decision makers

from Fortune 1000 companies, comparing the MS-D0S and

Mecintosh

like 'e pins

darkening

the

(7)

16.Fairþ organised but sounds more embarrassed

CLTJESDOWN:

Winner

of Crossword

N0.24

rings at

River lost its source and became brown (5)

Meanwhile two entries were received for Crossword No.24 and Derek Davies was the winner. The correct

solution:

aboutone (7)

1. Sat up around race militaryshows (7)

3.Type of fever a girl gets (5)

He's a fanatic about to fol-

lowmammoth (5) lg.Turkish naval officer has mixed-up father (5)

20.Abbreviation of dune for 21. Champions

atcards (4)

VIDEO CLUB ACTION/ADVENTIiRE Bahån starring Jack Nicholson and Kim Basinger

Blood Sport starring Jean{laude van Damme

Dead Heat starring Joe Plscopo and TreatWilliams

Frefox starring Clint

Eastwood

Iæathal Weapon shrring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover Red Scorpion starring Dolph LLndgreen Tequila Sunrise starring Mel Gibson a¡rd Michelle ffeiffer

3O mB

17.

example (3,2)

4. Bird is in a newer nest (4)

coRRESPoNDENTJUNE

1990

Macintosh

Macintosh systems.

0n the left, you'll

see the upside of Macintosh

technology: eæier to leam, eæier to use, a quicker grasp

R[]MS

less support time needed, etc.

Entries mustbe sentto:

COMDDY

Eric the Viking starring Tim Robbins andJoh Cleese ll{y Stepmolher is an Alim starring Dan aykroyd and Kim Basinger Roxmne starring Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah The Wtches of Eastwickst¿rring Jack Nicholson and Cher Torch SongTÍilogr starringAnne Baricroftand Matthew Broderick l{hen IIarry Met Salþ starring Bill crystal and Meg Ryan

Prinüine I-.td,

Mâcint0sh

Macintosh

To us, frankly, these results aren't that surpdsing.

the Macintosh hæ become the

18Æ Harvard House, 105-1l1Thomson Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong

you, we hope they add up to a very sunple

conclnsion. As our current TV commercial amply demonstrates; ease of use promotes use, or,

put another way

the most

powerful computer is the one that people prefer to use.

Macintosh

And in the 'hands on' depafiment alone, the

Maclntosh Tn¡niog Hoùß Reqü¡rcd to Lc¡rû N€w Àppl¡c¡t¡ori (Coúp¡Þr¡ye AveñB.s)- ñllS Maoageñ -

Illacintosh wins hanß down. Against any brand or system you care to mention. What's interesting is that you may find other comput€r

companies trying to follow the Macintosh by developing a more acceptable user interface. adding windows

4.The first correct solution

received will be awarded a bottle of Chivas Regal.

b¡vord for the idea of

'user friendliness'.

3.Entries must carry the name, address and the club membership number of the contestanl

drawn from the entries

After all, we invented the personal computer and since then

UnitB,

2.Entries must reach the office notlater than July 5.

you'11 see the downside of Mæintosh

technology: fewer training houm, lower running costs, far

CROSSWORD,

Quiet journey of lions (5)

14.Sounds brieflv (8)

you're about to choose a computer system,

or expand your existing one, you want to move fotwarù,

0n the right,

24. Row sounds sad (4)

25.See 24 more

Work big amount for Austalia¡r animal (7)

ocea¡r (4,3)

22.Game positions for travel

thke yoLrl time.

of additional applications, eæier to install, and so on.

17. Down under (5)

Unlocks organ with no

Tniniûg Hou6 R€qùl.ed on the System (Compant¡vc,{rrBger) - Etrd ljsr6

Iase of Ler.n¡rB 8¡sic Syrtcm OpeBt¡ons (Me¡n Scores) IUIS ìl20¡g16

swiûch" (6)

18.

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Us..P.odüctir¡ty Scorcs)- MIs M¡o¡gc6

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5.The solution and winnerrs name will be published in The Corræþondentthe following month.

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or icons.

Vhile weighing up which system

to choose, we

Mâcitrt0sh

would

Hou6 ofSûpporl

Per Moolh Pcr CoEpuler MIS M¡o¡g€6

(Coop¡øt¡re Avenß.s)-

suggest the læt thing you need is a copy of a Mæintosh.

0n the other hand, for abalanced, independent view of where the future lies,

a1l

you need is a copy of this ad.

AppleComputer l;0rtuoe 1000

Mâdntosh

bolting on a mouse or

And to that, we offer a word of advice.

Macintosb {Me¿û

Say,

i\lS lX)S is

{

hr(leilrrk ol l itne lnc tradeni[k of ñlictosoft CorporaLron

is a rcgistcrcd

r€gisLered

MacinOsh

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