The Correspondent, June 1992 by The Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong

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Pr€sldent - Steve Vines Flrst Vlce President - Jonathan Friedland Second Vice President - David Thurston

Corespondent Member Goúernors Bob Davis, Daniela Deme, Carl Goldstein, Humphrey Hawksþ, V:G, Kulkmi, Catherine Ong, Clâirdia Roselt, Huben Van Es

Journallst Member Governors

rililliam Barker, Stuari r¡y'olfendale Associate Membei Governors D. Garcia, L. Grebstad, S. Lockhal, R. Thomas

NE\ryS AND VIEWS Annual General Meeting

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President's Report Treasurer's Report

The new Board

Why small nations suffer Fiji's Minister for Trade and Commerce, Berenado Vunibobo outlines the difficulties facing Pacific IslanôStates.

Putting Israel's case

Professional Commiltee: Conrzzar.'H. Hawksþ Members: H, H¡wksþ V.G. Kulkami, C. Rosçll,

S. \Volfendale, C, Goldstein;J. F¡iedland, D. Deane, C, Ong, R. Thomas

Membershlp Committee: Conienori V.G¿ Kulkami Members: B. Davis, P..Ga¡çia, C, Golds¡ein, L. Grebstad EitertNlnment Coinmittee¡ Convenor: W. Barket M¿mbers: S. Wolfendale, S. Lockhart Publicatlons Commlttee:

Cotrrno¡.' D. Thurston, Members: S.l-ockha¡t, B. Dqvis, rÀ¡. Barker, H. Van Es F & B Committee: Convenor: L.Greåslad Members: D.Crei4 H. Vm Es, R. Thomas.

Ramos: A modest break with tradition UPI's Amold Zeitlin offers a personal insight to the mail who will lead the Philippines for the next six years.

Israel's former Consul General to Hong Kong, Reuven Merharv,

gives a personal assessment on developments in the Middle East.

Two days of glorious golf Derek Currie on the Media Golf Classic.

Obituary: Marcelle Davies Ian Wilson Jack Worth

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H. Van Es, Bob Davis, D. Garcia

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Treasurerts Report

Presidentts Report et me explain the ideas which dominated our discussion on the Board during this past year. This is surely the best press club in Asia, if not the have gone up by an world. But with high inflation - wewages felt we had to see that this average of 12 percent a.year club, which has been so very successful over the years, remained f inancially sound. We also felt that we had to move with the times. Since we had not expected to stay in this building, vital renovations had been postponed.

The lease had been a major concern for the Board. Paul Bayfield negotiated with the Government in 1990 and succeeded in renewing the lease, but not beyond 1997. With further negotiations, this Board secured our tenancy for a longer term. We will now get a new lease, starting January 1, 1994 which will extend for seven years up to the year 2001 . Looking to the future the board had, after taking office' decided to appoint a management consultant to look at the Club's overall situation. An independent report was prepared by Rudi Koppen's company, KYZ, and after discussions within the Board and with management we acted. A three phase renovation programme was decided on. I am happy that Steve Vines and the rest of the Board - many of whom will also sit on the new Board - were in full agreement with the steps undertaken. Firstly, we renovated the restaurants upstairs and opened the Verandah as a new ltalian restaurant. Then we decorated the Health Corner, which now has excellent facilities. The disputed Lounge, next to the main bar, has been widely accepted now and has proven a sucCESS.

The next step is the renovation of the lower basement. This

will include a second bar and excellent working facilities for both newspaper and radio journalists as well as photographers. Associates might also wish to use the new press centre as a back-uP work Place. ln addition we are now moving the administration out of the

Club into a small office we have bought in Lan Kwai Fong' The third phase of renovation, planned for 1993, will see the renovation of the kitchen.The results so far have shown a

higher turnover and more revenue. The Club is, as we can see from membership applications, becoming even more popular. lf you have something lo say in town, you cannot

afford not to be a member of the FCC. Our financial situation is sound. The surplus this year was a record $1 .6 million compared with last'years $700,000, which in itself was regarded as a good year. Sadly we have been advised by Government that we cannot buy this building. But we have started to diversify our investments and have bought, as a first step, an office in the neighbourhood. We were given the mandate by membership to invest our funds with a professional company. Wardley was

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chosen and they have done extremely well so far. Wardley was instructed that the equity investment should be no more than 30 percent. Following KYZ's recommendations, we have

a new fìnancial controller, together with the treasurer,

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advise the new Board to keep a close eye on equity investment as Hong Kong's stock market will, of course, not always f ly like it has in the first charge of supervising this investment.

quarter of this year.

Ihe Correspondenf, our move out of the red for the to magazine, received enough ads the trend since has been This published. f irst time since it was into the put money more however, last autumn. We will, I

am very happy to report also that

am pleased to report to you that the Foreign Correspondent's Club has entered the new fiscal year in a healthy financial position. This performance is padicularly

remarkable given the substantial capital expenditure allocated for renovation of the Main Bar area, the Health Corner, the Main Dining Room and the Verandah. The Club's operating surplus of $1.6 million during the last financial year is, once again, comprised substantially of interest income. Gross profit has also remained consistent

with previous years. The increase in the contribution of entrance fees, reflecting both the normal turnover in club membership and the decision made in 1990 to apportion a

magazine for the next two years to beef up editorial and

lesser percentage of these fees to the development account,

hopefully make it into a show piece of reportage and pictures.

also bolstered our 1991 bottom line.

The prospects for this year are extremely good. We must see that the Club and its facilities are used well. As you are aware, this Board, in close cooperation with

A lesser contribution was recorded from our video club activities. As you are aware, a decision was made to close the facility last year. The cost of supporting The Correspondent magazine has also been reduced, thanks both to the efforts of Mike Bishara and his staff and the decision to charge overseas mailing costs to members living abroad. The decision to appoint Wardley lnvestment Services Ltd. to manage our surplus funds has been a good one, given our longstanding reliance on non-operating income to support the Club. lnstead of losing ground to inflation, as had been the case previously, the value of the development and accumulated funds administered by Wardleys has increased by 14% since our resources were entrusted to them at the end of

management, organised a lot of activities. Some of them new and exciting, such as the current exhibition of modern paintings, of which I am personally very proud. Our two restaurants up here now have the potential to make the FCC a desirable place for dinner, which has not been the case in the past. You may have noticed that many good speakers were invited to the Club. We had the Governor as guest speaker as well as Zhou Nan, the head of Xinhua. Cocktail pafties were organised to meet the diplomatìc community, the public relations world and the fund managers. We managed to have several events sponsored and I want to thank companies like lndosuez Asia lnvestment and others who helped the Club and placed ads in our magazine. We have secured sponsorship from Swiss Volksbank for a Swiss week in autumn and in NovemSwiss and French will have two food festivals ber.

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November. Funds under Wardley's management now stand at $9.36 million. Despite the strong state of our finances, your Board decided to raise monthly fees, albeit at a level below the rate of inflation and of previous years' increases. We feel this is a prudent decision in anticipation of increased salary demands by the staff, of higher future depreciation charges related to last year's spending for improvements and of further expen-

diture needed to complete the renovation programme initiated last year. Capital commitments approved by the Board of Governors,

but not yet contracted, for the year 1993-94 amount to $3.6 million. This will fund the renovation of the pool bar area to provide additional working space for journalists and to pay for long-overdue improvements to our kitchen. Preliminary discussions have been initiated with our bankers to secure mortgage financing for the purchase of outside office space. ln addition to providing more space for the use of Club members, the purchase of the property should be seen as a diversification of the Club's investment porlfolio. ln conclusion, I would like to point out that the large surplus recorded for 1991 is unlikely to be repeated next year. We are confident, however, that even with the improvements made to Club facilities, the FCC's finances continue to be prudently managed and we face the future on a strong footing.

Jonathan Friedland BY ARTHUR IIACKER

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We had a jazz night, a Macau week and even a chamber music event. The Asian food theme night was re-introduced and established as a regular event, and a salad and sandwich bar opened. I am confident the new Board will keep up the momentum, as Steve Vines was parlicularly supportive in helping to for-

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mulate the current PolicY. I have to thank Heinz Grabner for enduring me. The implementation of this Board's policy was done in an efficient manner. The staff I thank. We have excellent people here in all departments and I am very sorry to see Julia, the Club Steward, leave for Canada. Julia has been the right person in the front office to keep Heinz and the members at bay' Thanks also go to the members for their support and to the Board for its work, as well as Honorary Secretary Mary Ellen Fullam, who had the ungrateful job of taking notes at Board

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1992

Why small nations suffer ention the Pacific and one

immediately conjures uP

By Karl Wilson

irnages of tiny islands scat-

tered across a vast expanse of water like pearls scattered across an azure cloth.

The images of paradise are all too

familiar-

islands of white sandy beaches,

lined with green palms and crystal clear

water. But in reality these images are a little misleading as Berenado Vunibobo, Fiji's

Minister for Trade and Commerce, pointed out during a Club luncheon on April 1.

The Pacific island states, he said, were struggling to survive. "We all sufwe are fer from similar problems small in size, have limited resources, limited land, an unhealthy population growth and a flight of skilled workers.

"The factthat we are small, also means

that our problems receive very little attention from the world's press. Unless, of course, you have something like a coup as we did back in 1987. "But even so we all share common problems and at one time or another were dependencies of either the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, the

United States or France. "lt is interesting to note that France is the only remaining colonial power left in the Pacific with New Caledonia and French Polynesia. One can speculate why the French want to stay. "New Caledonia is said to have about a third or a quarter of the world's supply of nickle. French Polynesia has an ex-

clusive economic zone of between 1.5 and two million square kilometres and New Caledonia has much the same." Vunibobo said most of the advanced industrial nations had yet to sign the Law of the Sea Convention which is cru-

cial to the survival of the Pacific island states. The Law of the Sea Convention gives each coastal nation the right to the fish and other marine life in waters exceeding 200 nautical miles beyond its

coast and exclusive rights to all sources along its continental shelf for re-

350 nautical miles. "Because we are small and lack the capital and technology to exploit our natural resources we are at the mercy

of the big boys," he said. "Some of us end up going into Partnership or a joint venture but we never seem to come out on top. Like little fish in a big pond we are gobbled up by the barracudas.

"Although the United States has not signed the Law of the Sea Convention it does pay to allow its vast fishing fleets to fish in our waters. lt may not be the best arrangement but it is better than

nothing."

Of all the Pacific island nations, Fiji has done remarkably well, despite the coup.

Made up of some 332 islands, the biggest of which is 10,000 square kilometres, the Fijian islands cover thousands of square miles of ocean in the heart of the South Pacific. Just west of the international dateline, Fiji is literally where each new day begins. The coup which toppled parliamen-

"What we are looking at is to attract investment to Fiji. We have a highly skilled workforce and although we may not be able to comp.ete directly with our bigger neighbours like Australia or New

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Zealand, I believe there are areas in which we can cooperate. "The point is, there are certain parts of light manufacturing that can be done more cost effectively in Fiji. Perhaps this is something that the bigger industrial countries will have to start looking

"We are about to have elections for the first time since the coup, our economy has picked up to the point where we have had a positive growth rate for the past three years.

"We have a constitution, which in parts may not meet the demands of every concerned democrat but it will at least enable us to return to parliamen-

tary

government."

Israel's fot'mer Consul General to Hong Kong, Reuven Merharv, has heen c'redited u,ith laying the foundations for the establishment of Israel' s diplomatic' relations vtith China. In a fi'ank breakfast adĂš'ess to the Club on April I4 he gave a personal assessnlent on developments in the Middle East, the domestic scene in Israel and its relations with China. Aformer direc'tor general of the foreign ministry, Merharv now heads the Rand-style Florsheimer Institute for Policy Studies in Jerusalent.

Vunibobo said that since the coup the interim. administration has had time to re-examine Fiji's economy in the context of a small devĂŠloping country. A country, he said, which God had penalised by putting it in the middle of the

nessmen.

sĂłme US$2 billion in aid in less than an hour. But that is the way things are. We in the Pacific, as I said earlier, share similar problems. Fiji for her part has done well despite the problems of 1987.

Putting Israel's case

and two devaluations of the dollar of 33

economy and is leaving that to busi-

But if you are irresponsible you get all the aid you can get. "When I was working for the United Nations some years ago I worked in a country in which we managed to get

haps this is also a way for the developed and the developing world to move closer together." Although Fiji is considered by many to be a developing country, Vunibobo said it is far from developing. "By Third World standards we have done well, very well," he said. "l remember the last colonial meeting I attended just before our independence some 22 years ago. Someone said to me 'you are not really a developing country ... you are too advanced.' "ln22years of independence Fiji has never once qualified for a soft loan window from the World Bank. We have never qualified for aid either. "The message from all this is simply:

colony in 1987 saw foreign reserves plummet to around F$190 million or about two to three months of imports

"The government," he said, "hastaken itself away from the management of the

lf you are successful you are penalised.

that because we are small we are cheap. Cooperation is the key word and cooperation is what we are looking for. Per-

tary democracy in the former British

Pacif ic.

Fiji is literally where each new day begins

at in the future. "We must move away from the idea

in the Middle East has begun and as we say in Hebrew "the peace locomo-

But having said that, it is clear we have to go in a few difficult directions first and solve some of the basic prob-

first interim agreement with the Palestinians within the next five to six years and in the coming 20 to 30 years reach

tive has left its first station." lronically,

lems of the Middle East. Problems such as recognition and the removal of strategic and political boycotts. The arms control question has to be resolved also. It is impossible for the Middle East and lsrael to sustain, in the coming years, the growing expenditure on arms. A fighter today costs between US$60 million and US$80 million dollars com: pared to US$3million to US$4million 15 years ago. And there is the refugee problem,

the beginnings of a regional settlement. The size, complexity and depth of the problems which we have to tackle in the Middle East are comparable to what we see in South East Asia today. lndeed, people should also look at Europe as an example. lt took the Europeans from 1945 to 1975 to prepare the

hequestforpeace

this process was made possible following the Gulf War. True, there will be difficulties especially amongst the Arabs themselves, but the preconditions for the beginnings of real peace are there. These are: * An understanding by the world community and most of the Arab countries that the solution to the Palestinian problem cannot be conditional to the imposi-

tion of conditions by Arab countries.

Most of the problems between us

do with the Palestinian cause which was

Arab and Jew alike, which has to be addressed along with the question of

amply proven during the Gulf War when one Arab state attacked another.

compensation and repatriation. It is my assumption we will reach a

(lsrael) and the Arabs have nothing to

Helsinki process which was based on three major ingredients: human rights, economic co-operation, political and stra-

tegic co-operation. As far as human rights are concerned

lsrael is the only country in the region that does not have capital punishment. The rights of the individual are protected by constitutional laws.

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1992

Our small country of less than five mil-

ln that respect I do not think we will have much ground for true co-opera-

lion people (700,000 Arabs and 4.3 million Jews) has seen an 11 percent

tion with our neighbours for many years

to come. Economic co-operation between us and the Arab world is slow but the beginnings are there. The most imporlant and imposing

increase in the Jewish population over the last two years.

similar agreement with other Arab countries will be more difficult but it can be done.

RELATIONS WITH CHINA mind of one dictator. Europe has managed to achieve that security through the Helsinki agreement

which we are seeking in -the something Middle East. A collective umbrella of

security with the co-operation

re-

sponsible government's in the region. ISRAEL

chemical, biological and nuclear war-

of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the new waves of emigration and population change, lsrael has taken between 1 1 percent and 1 3 percent of the

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ban¡(ing:

development of the Middle East.

Reuven Merharv

siles which are capable of not only carrying conventional war heads, but heads as well. We have seen how slow the international community has been in trying to prevent the spread of these weapons. We have also seen the entrepreneurship of companies in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland who have been eager to deliver the components of these very destructive weapons to governments such as lraq, Libya and Syria. Governments which I would describe as irresponsible because when the chips are down these governments would not hesitate taking action which, in today's world, would be totally unacceptable. We as a country and as a people are willing to take risks to ensure peace is maintained and our security ensured. By security, I am not only speaking about strategic control of excess and territory, I am speaking of situations in which we can prevent any wanton attack from the east or the norlh which is being prepared and perpetrated in the

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these will settle down with time. But just look at the human resources that we have gained 50 percent are from the old Soviet Union of which just over half are academics and professional people. Those who have come from Ethiopia will bridge the gap between the lron Age and Laser Age within a generation or two. I feel certain that with this talent lsrael can contribute significantly in the future

strategic and political co-operation area which had its beginnings with Egypt. A

future, to take more risks and go for security with assurances. It must be remembered that lsrael is a small country in a region where distances are also small. As the Gulf War amply showed, lsmisrael is within reach of missiles

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Of course there are problems but

thing that has taken place is in the

We are on the right track but having said that we know there will be difficulties ahead. Some of them will be dependent on the insecurity of the lsraeli people. But one hopes that with economic development and immigration this will strengthen the fabric of our society and we will be able, in the

T eS

Over the last three years, in the wake

world's movement of emigrants. Any prophet from the days of the Old Testament who came to lsrael today and could see allthese people, from the darkest black to the fairest, blue eyed people from the shores of the Caspian, who have come to lsrael on that great wave of hope would have thought his prophecy had come true. Despite our difficulties, we have opened our doors to our people. And if need be we go in and help them get out.

Most of those who helped rescue people in Ethiopiawere themselves once

from that parl of the world. Today they are officers, some are graduates of our universities and many speak Hebrew. lf events call for it we will do the same in the Soviet republics where a growing wave of lslam and pro-Arab feelings are starting to surface. You really have to see it to believe it.

Hong Kong was selected some years

ago to be the bridgehead between our government and China and I was lucky enough to have been picked for the job. I had come from Beirut in 1985 knowing nothing. But people here in Hong Kong and China helped me make inroads into China. One of the things I did not want to do was let China think I was bringing the problems of the Middle East to this part of the world. We set about establishing direct bilateral contacts with China through the Hong Kong branch of the New China News Agency. After some time I was granted a visa to lead a tourist group

into China. A group consisting of just one person

me.

I decided to make contact with the Academy of Sciences. After all the United States had its initial contact through sport in the early 1970s with ping pong so I decided that for lsrael it would be

through science, maths, physics and biology.ln time we had our scientists göing to China and in turn China established a tourist office in lsrael. So the scientific bridge was established and by 1990 we had established a small academic mission in Beijing which was later upgraded to consular status. Today that small mission has full diplomatic recognition at ambas,sadorial

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Arnold Zeitlin has been covering the Philippines for more than 20 years fot' both the Associated Press and United Press International where he is currently Vic'e President and General Manager. Here he offers a personal insight into the man who is expec'ted to lead the country.for the next six years. bout two years after Ferdi-

nand E. Marcos imposed martial law on the Philippines

in September 1972, General Fidel

Ramos, then commander of the Philippine Constabulary, spoke at an underground forum in the basement of the Cosmopolitan Church on Manila's Taft Avenue. Despite severe restrictions on free expressión, prominent anti-Marcos dissidents met regularly in the church to discuss martial law issues, often with prominent members of the regime. The debate was remarkably free; participants spoke their mind but the proceedings never were reported in the controlled Philippine press. Ramos'presence as a guest speaker was especially significant because the Cosmopolitan congregation was Protestant, a minority in a country where the Roman Catholic Church claims as mem-

bers more than 80 percent of the people. Ramos, too, was Protestant. l've never shaken the chilling impression left that day by Ramos, who ordi-

narily cultivates the amiable Eddy image. He didn't know I was the only journalist there. I was sitting out of his line of

sight. ln cold, calculating language, Ramos sternly advised his audience to support his cousin, Marcos. He warned that just because he was a Protestant, they could expect no favours from him. ln fact, he told his audience, as a fellow Protestant, he held Protestants to a higher standard of conduct and loyalty to the government. He reminded me of a 20th century Oliver Cromwell, the 17th century soldierwho ruthlessly ruled republican Great Britain as a dictator and who spurned an offer of the crown. Fortunately for most Filipinos, Ramos never quite rose to the Cromwell image.

He was interested enough in a crown

of sorts to take President

Corazon Aquino's endorsement and is about to become the next president of the Philippines, according to the glacially slow, unofficial vote count showing his lead increasing over anti-graft voice Miriam Defensor-Santiago and the symbol of Marcos cronyism, Eduardo (Danding) Cojuangco. This was an election that aroused little passion in the Philippines, where politics is a national sport. lf the Constitution had permitted, the winner would have been the celebrated Nota, None Of The Above. But once the vote count started and showed Ramos and Defensor-Santiago jockeying forthe early lead, a sense of relief swept the country.

lnitially, despite the lagging count, it seemed a real winner had emerged in the person of Cory Aquino, who seemed genuinely about to live up to her pledge

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Final endorsement: Aquino endorses Ramos (left) and running mate Lito Osmena.

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Iou'ec secretary, in overthrowing the ageing, failing president and clearing the path for Aquino to become president. It was typical of the ambiguous feeling of many towards Ramos that Enrile

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once complained that it took the general an inordinately long time to make up his mind the day he joined the anti-Marcos rebellion. ln fact, the morning of thatday, Ramos visited columnist Max Soliven to com-

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Confïdent of victory: Ramos gives an impromptu press conference. to return democracy to the Philippines. After all, she was the first incumbent to

voluntarily reject re-election and the candidate she endorsed, Ramos, and the one she had brought into government, Defensor-Santiago, were the initial leaders. The botched vote count marred the initial glow of triumph as did the immutable law of the Philippine elections if seven candidates run for the presidency, the six losers are all going to yell fraud. Defensor-Santiago, who spoke at the FCC late in 1991 and who pressed hard on the wiping-oulgraft issue, was the only candidate able to raise any genuine enthusiasm, from those who saw a vote for her as the only way to register protest against a system of

special interest politics that had returned Under Aquino, and from those who hated her. "l'm going to resign from this country," sighed Eugenia Apostol, the chairman of the Philippine Daily lnquirer, as Miriam took an eãrly lead in the count. The day before the election the paper had asked Miriam to quit the race because of the claim that she was not emotionally strong enough for the job. As the polls opened, I breakfasted after a 6am mass on omelet and chicken adobo in the Villa San Miguel home of

Cardinal Jaime Sin and the man he

favoured, Rämon Mitra, whose poor

having called her during the campaign "Brenda," the local slang for brain damaged. As for why he and other candidates were not saying the same things about corruptíon, Mitra said evasively there were "technical" reasons. Back in the bad old days of martial law (when Mitra was jailed for a spell with Cory's husband, Ninoy) Ramos commanded the Philippine Constabulary, roughly equivalent to a para-military national police force. lts mission was internal security. ln carrying out the mission for Marcos, the organisation steamrollered innocent and guilty alike, spread-

ing terror in the countryside against Communist and Muslim rebels and playing a shady role in the disappearance of critics of the regime. lf not active in its excesses, Ramos never seemed in control of his own organisation. He hardly appeared at the time to be the moderating force against martial law, as he claimed during the election campaign when Cardinal Sin attacked him for his connection with Marcos. Subordinate officers like Rolando Abadilla and Prospero Olivas ran amok, unrestrained from above. A 1950 graduate of the US Mititary Academy at West Point, Ramos stock in trade was unswerving loyalty and military professionalism.

He had every reason to expect that

he would become the Armed Forces chief of staff. lnstead, Marcos gave the

showing after being acclaimed a fron-

job to General Fabien Ver,

trunner sharply damaged the'cardi-

controlled the country's intelligence operation and was a Marcos bodyguard for years. Ramos sulked, eventually gaining his revenge in February 1986when he joined

nal's political reputation. The cardinal asked his candidate about Miriam. "She is saying the right thing," said Mitra, surprisingly complimentary after

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plain because Soliven had printed a remark that between Ramos and his politician sister, Leticia Shahani, she had the balls in the family. Aquino made him her armed forces chief of staff, defence secretary and, finally, her successor. His loyalty and professional bearing

in the face of six

coups and a secession insurrection has paid off.

His standing by Aquino begs a question that never has been explored fully. What choice had Ramos? Because of his professional image and aloofness from the macho, ragtag nature of much of the Philippine military, Ramos was never a popular figure with other officers. lt is not certain if the rebellious young officers who tried repeatedly to stage coups, allegedly with the aid of Enrile, woûld have accepted him. Ramos, 64, now need only to be loyal to himself, although that may be a prob-

lem for a figure who for most of his public life has been a follower and for a candidate in.an election in which three of every four voters favoured someone else. Ramos represents a modest break in the dominance of traditional politicians, although he is very much in the tradition of Philippine elite families. His father,

Narcisco, was a foreign secretary; his sister is a senator as well as a diplomat. He will have to cope with the power of another elite family, the Cojuangcos, who have come to dominate politics under one of its members, Corazon Aquino, as in the past the Marcoses, Mrs Marcos' Romualdez family and the Lopez family did. This fam ily's dominance is also a factor relatively unexplored in trying to assess the future of the Philippines.

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pushing non-governmental organisations; she will retain a public voice, although it is questionable how influential she will be. The politician to watch is her brother, Jose (Peping) Cojuangco. A congressman who initially supported Mitra as the official candidate of the

LDP --

Democratic Struggle Party, a

party he built as secretary-general -- he is likely to become the country's single most powerful politician. ln the final days of the campaign, he quietly joined his sister and switched his allegiance to Ramos, insuring his role in the immediate future as the mover in Philippine politics.Peping's closest rival may not be Ramos but Peping's cousin, Eduardo, or Nanding, who seems close to finishing second in the presidential race. The finish is a demonstration of the lingering power of vote buying as a result of the vast sums Danding allegedly spent and of the lingering nostalgia among voters who did not feel a connection with Marcos. He is a far more dangerous rival than Defensor-Santiago. Ramos, now amiable with his martial law past behind him, has shown some inclination to be a healing president. He has offered Defensor-Santiago a place in his administration, perhaps trying to

regarded during the campaign. A test of healing will be Ramos' rela-

Otherwise on the basis of past record, there is little evidence Ramos will

tions with the United States. With his academic background at West Point and his University of lllinois master's degree in engineering and his love of

be anymore than a conventional

US football, he was long considered a US man. He already has said he would offer the United States access to Subic Bay naval base, although before the collapse of the bases negotiations, he had suggested a phasing out of the military

relationship by 1998. Ramos is a hardliner when it comes to internal security. He likely will see Communist dissidents rather than decades of unequal social and economic treat-

ment of poor farmers and itinerant workers behind the unrest in the poverty-stricken countryside and in congested urban areas. He is unlikely to do anything to ruffle the country's stock exchanges. He is likely to embrace economic policies backed by Aquino's technocrats allied with the lnternational Monetary Fund and the World Bank. They have tried to pry Philippine commerce away from its stagnant ties with nationalist interests who wish to keep it closed for themselves, rather than open it to the world in the way Korea, Taiwan, Singapore,

DIo YoU KNow:

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text of seeking excitement through politics and a boring, if not traditional

ship, the

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Ramos faces an opportunity to erase doubts about his leadership by rising to greatness in a country that desperately needs inspiration and direction, as well

anwunt

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Philippines?"

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That legervl becmæ Comþton Mackrnzie's best

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nuvel

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succ e s s.

Fiftl lears later, the wreck

ather's

economic dragonhood.

the "Politicitnt"

was soan born.

Schooleducated Hong Kong stockbroker who later was to work hard for her father's election. Months before the presidential campaign at a party on the Peak, a friend

and the more traditional politicians dis-

scetæ

thm the oàd bottle ar two. A

a Wharton

"would anyone want to be president of

on the

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his

lndonesia have on the path towards

of t)æ prccious cargo

By the time the

"my

prospects."Why," answered Angela,

war, wasted no time in

as possible.

daughter tells me the same thing."

Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and even

the

sdvag¡ng as nwch

get your act together."

co-opt her tremendous appeal as an anti-corruption figure, an issue Ramos

Bahmltine's whßþ

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"No manager in his right mind would

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asked about her

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pines?" he asked me in September 1990 during an interview for which he presented me with a 300-page baçkground information kit marked personally for "Mr Arnold Zeillin."

daughter, Angel,

ran agrowtd

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realist aware of his country's deep problems. "Why don't you move to the Philip-

as answer a question raised by

Wa1 a cmgo

off the Scotcßh ßland of Eriskny.

president. That's not to say he isn't a

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In younger days: Zeitlin (second from the left) with the South Chinq Morning Post's Asia Correspondent, Harvey Stockwin, Ramos' sister Leticia Shahani, Ramos an¡J The New York Times stringer Alice Villadolid. The picture was taken in the mid 70s.

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1992

Pohaps thor's wlry Bananthe's ß Ewoþe's

matter when, no matter wherc.

number-one seüing Scorch

Mriskl.

how they had punched the air after sinking a 20 footer, taking four to get out of a bunker or losing a ball in a palm tree.

Two days of glorious golf ooking more like athletes heading for Barcelona, 44 bodies set out from Manila last month for the annual pilgrimage to Canlubang Golf Course in the Philippines.

Situated a relaxed two beer journey from Manila, Canlubang plays host on the first day to the Carlsberg/FOC four ball scramble event. Having gone through the formalities of selecting caddies and moving sunshades, the eleven flights of four golfers were ready for action. On the first tee of the South Course

By Derek Currie the defending champions led by John Lenaghan struck the first ball to officially open two days of glorious golf. The towering palm trees offered little shade for those without umbrella girls as the fierce noon-day sun forced the assembled body of Asia's finest to turn to the sponsors product for relief. As the day progressed and the tem-

perature rose there was concern on

many faces not about missing crucial putts but about whether there would be enough cold green bottles to keep de-

Prior to the tabulation of the score cards a special putting competition was held for all the caddies and umbrella girls. With a total of 4,000 pesos up for grabs in prize money, this event was an

hydration at bay.

instant hit.

Despite clubs and balls being lost down ravines the eleven weary flights

Never have the galleries been so packed at Canlubang and one could have been forgiven for thinking they

staggered home intact after competing the 6,165 yard tropical course. After light refreshments the party moved to Makati for the prize giving ceremony, where it was learnt that the defending champions led by John Lenaghan had triumphed once again. Four birdies on the last five holes not only won them the event but a magnifi-

were at Augusta. The tension was even greater when it came to a play-off between the writer's

Winners of the Scramble: (L-R) Derek Currie, Spencer Robinson, John Lenaghan and David Gilhooly.

caddie and John Lenaghan's who had both holed in one. The latters caddie won the play-off but the dividing of prize

cent effort off the green by David Gilhooly

from forty feet on the last hole enabled them to better their score of six under par the previous year by one. DAY TWO: THE MEDIA CLASSIC Everyone was in good shape for the Media Classic with an ample dosage of sleep, having collapsed at 1Opm from fatigue the night before. The Classic was held on Canlubang's North Course which is not only tougher than the South Course but the ravines are even deeper. However, with the beerwagons loaded

Eddie Koe concentrates on the long putt

Joint winners of the Carlsberg Media Classic Charlie Smith (left) and David Hodges.

The Winners Players assemble for the photo call

Carlsberg/FOC Scramble Seven-under par:

Carlsberg Media Classic

John Lenaghan (Thailand) David Gilhooly (Macau) Derek Currie Spencer Robinson

Winner:

Joint runners-up Five-under par:

At the practice green

Robin Moyer Eddie Khoe Geoff Miles Alan Taylor (Thailand) nobody showed the slightest concern. Some five hours later the competitors

from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and Macau recounted at the lgth hole

Ross Way and a curious spectator

T6 THE CORRESPONDENT JUNE

David Hodges (Philippines) Dave Allison Mark Winters Peter Cordingly

Charlie Smith/David Hodges 38 Stableford Points Best Front 9: Robin Moyer - 22 points Best Back 9: Keith Statham - 21 points Nearest the pin Hole 6: Dave Allison Hole 11: Unny Krisnnan (Malaysia)

money had already been settled long before. When it came to announce the winner of the Media Classic after a careful check of all the cards, which was compulsory as it was during election week in the Philippines, two running mates were tied in first place - FCC Club captain Charlie Smith and Manila-based photographer David Hodges.

It was decided there would be Longest Drยกve Handicap 24and under: John Lenaghan (Thailand) Handicap 25 and over: John Berry

countback to decide the winner and the prize would be shared. Charlie and David will now select jointly where the $15,000 scholarship or equip-

ment award, donated by Carlsberg, should go.

@ 1992

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1992

PEOPLE

Jazz Night ... lt'londay, April 27, sav' tlrc resun¡ttion of the Club's popular jazz ttights whiclt [caturcd tv'o ol the world's Ieacling ja:z artists -- sa.to¡tlnti.t! and flautist Artlturßarron and kct'l>oarditt Dr Lonlic 9nitlt. Even rcsidcnt CIub jtt:: hrlf Rol¡crto Clutrd couldt't resisl geltittg irttc> thc sv'irtg of t

Itit

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Art exhibition rs an instant hit ... INTERNATIONAL

we're all the

Montlry, May 18, saw auolherfirst at thc FCC -its first ever art exhibítìon lcaturing u,orks by M a ríe -Lau rence Lany-C h o u raEt i. Spo nsorcd by InclosuezAsìa lttvestntenl Serviccs Ltd it provul a g,'cat success and, accoulingto lhe Club'storner Presìdèñ Percr Sc¡cll ¡ tz, ¡ t 'n'i I I be th e fi rst ol n¡any ørt¿rhibìtìons to b helcl at the Club throughout

PEOPLE Dav,id andEilecn Pcrkin.ç, À'lÌo ltavc baur nuttarìng about lcaving I!<ttg Koilg |or thc past f t'c or

si.r vcttr.t, fi rtttl Iv u¡t¡:cd sti <'ks tu d s.ti ¿l I hai r I a\t ol rttartvlarcwalls ot'cr drit¡ks ut tha Cltth on llay I l beforc flying olf to Loudon and thei r ilcw hoilc. Dtttid, wlto has bactt t'ûúousl\: tlcs<'rìlrc¿l as -Pcrkins, a v'alkìn g lltlto's ll'h o of IIot g K<>n g øt d a frntl o[ usclcss laor./crlgc,. Parkitt,s, tltc nart wl.o singlcJtattdedlv kc¡:t thc llonu Kong Ccu lsbcrg breweD' going; Pcrkins, thc ntut y'lto

canc hcrc iil the 1960s to do hi,s Nutionctl Sarvicc and v'enl Al4rOL; Pcrkits, that tticc gttv who vorks v'illt Pelet'Cook; Pcrkins ... vou tnust knott David Pe t kirc, evcnbodv kttou's Parkit.¡ . . hc'.s been lterc

forever!

A month of leaving parties... Alter l4 ycors

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David, Ross Way, Charlie Stark, Sue and Ian Jordan

Old friends Cynthia Hydes and Zelda Cawthorne

Peter Seidlitz forks out more t¡es

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TREIUIIS OBITUARY: Marcelle Davies 1913- 1992

Technical Achievement Award TO

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MARCELLE DAVIES has died in France aged 79. The distinguished French journalist, wife of retired Agence France Presse correspondent David Davies, and a long-time member of the FCC, contracted cancer early this year. She died peacefully in hospital at Loches on May 6. Her funeral was held on May 11 in the church at Le Grand Passigny

fall into a rage and chew the carpets! Before coming to Hong Kong Mar-

observerofthe Hong Kong scene. Hong Kong was the Davies' home from 1966 to 1972 and again from 1975 to 1981. And Marcelle dearly loved the place.

satisfaction than her journalistic career," David says "and she became deeply involved in it until we left Hong Kong." Marcelle Davies was the first French woman accredited as a war correspondent to De Gaulle's Free French forces. She covered the historic battles from the Normandy beaches all the way to the streets of liberated Paris. Appointed a "grand reporter" for AFP, she then accompanied De Lattre de Tassigny's armoured column as itcrossed the Rhine and pushed into southern Germany, rescuing the occupants of several concentration camps, before linking up with the advancing Soviet troops in Vienna. Along the way she was present at the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Ber-

She played a prominent parl in founding the charity Helping Hand to aid the homeless. "l thinkthis workgave hereven greater

chtesgaden. lt wás there that she inspected carpets to lay the lie about the Fuhrer's purported tantrums. No, she repofied, the German dictator did not

where the Davies' owned a house for more than 20 years. Those of us who knew Marcelle remember a gifted reporter, an elegant hostess and a witty, sometimes caustic,

celle worked in Paris as a freelance writer. Her byline appeared regularly in the Au st ral i an Wo m en's Weekly, mainly reporting on fashions during the 1950s and 60s but with occasional profiles of distinguished expatriate Australians. She also wrote for the Yorkshire Posf, the Toronto Star Weekly and the Religious News Servicê of New York. ln 1970 she became fashion editor for Kayser Sung's Textile Asia and only gave up the job when she fell ill this year.

The Davies' final assignment was Canberraand Sydney (1 983-1 988) where Marcelle built up a wide circle of friends. Her cuisine was legendary and I for one treasure several of her recipes. But she will be remembered, above all, for her keen interest in Asia

especially for

Hong Kong - and her hopes for Hong Kong's future.

Russell Spurr

Jack Worth and Ian V/ilson Word has been received from afar over the past six weeks of the deaths of two well-known and popular absent corre-

Trumbull

spondent members from the FCC's Suth-

erland House era.

Credits include: Special effects photography for "2001", "Close Encounters of the Thìrd Kind", "Star Trek"

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ride, dedolights were the answer. Efficiency, brightness, narrow beam, long throw and small size made our

dedolights the backbone of lighting the entire film. Every shot was 180. wide at f 22. Hiding lights was a major

problem. With dedolights,

developed an entirely natural look by

breaking our key down into many individual beams, and slicing them between buildings, rocks and ice.

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Jack.

a former Board member and Club vicepresident, passed away in mid-April in

Once, after a lengthy foray into the Middle East in Beirut and elsewhere,

Los Angeles.

Jack regaled a crowded Club table with the obseruation: "l felt like Florence of Arabia."

The soft-spoken lan Wilson,

never shoot without them...'

Never one to hide his sexual preference, Worth made bundles at Jockey Club expense by backing horses with the name "gay." His favourite was "Gay Warrior," who paid many an FCC bill for

a photographer-cameraman for CBC, NBC and UPl, died in Nicosia, Cyprus. Both deaths were sudden. Happy-go-lucky Jack Worth was a producer for NBC based in Hong Kong during the 1970s. He was, to his many mates, a real character. He became celebrated for donning an apron and teaching the kitchen staff of the day how to prepare what became known as the "Worlhburger," the genuine Texasstyle burger. He later showed the chefs how to turn out sizzling chili. Jack was what you would call a keen punter, a Ruyanesque character who loved playing the ponies at Happy Valley and later at Shatin.

lf anyone gets around to updating the history of the FCC, Jack Worth will have to figure prominently. The quiet, Canadian-born lan Wilson

is best remembered as a former

UPI

Siagon photo chief in the waning days of the war. He later held down the head photo post in Hong Kong before basing himself in London.

Wilson, who was just 48, spent his last years as a roving freelance TV cameraman, spending long periods in Beirut before that war died away. He had been living in Nicosia for the past few years. Both Jack and lan will be missed by

Jack Worth many f riends scattered around the globe

Jack for his rollicking, down-home -sense of humour and lan for his quiet manner and love of a good pun.

Bert Okuley THECORRESPONDENT JUNE

1992

PREVIEW

Journey to international recognition May saw another first for the Club

a highly successful exhihition of paintings bt

M arie - Laur e nc e Lamy -C houraqu

Later this month the Cluh will feature an exhibition of contemporary Vietnamese at'Í. Here a Special Correspondent examines the state of cotltemporary art inVietnant.

than a rambunctious, uncertain present. The five contemporary afiists that will befeatured atthe Club (BuiVan Quang,28;

Le Phan, 30; Vo Thanh Liem, 54;

Manh Cuong,52, and Hoai Phi, 47) represent two of the most impofiant periods preof contemporary Vietnamese art and post-liberation. The styles and subject matter of these artists varies greatly and illustrates but a little of what is happening now in Viet-

namese art.

hile contemporary Chinese adists continue to break records at art auctions around the world, other Asian artists struggle for a platform. Vietnam's artists, long used to adversity, have only recently begun to make important. inroads into the international art market. ln the past three years, galleries around the world that have opened their doors to contemporary Vietnamese art have not been disappointed in their clients' reac-

Bui Van Quang Still Life Flowers Watercolours on silk remain popular with many artists, young and old. A shorlage of good materials in general forces

the professional artists to adapt their medium to whatever surface he or she can find. Vo Thanh Liem works on washed silk, BuiVan Quang paints on canvas and

paper, while Do Manh Cuong, perhaps the most unusual of the five artists here, uses prayer paper and printed newspaper for many of his stunning watercol-

tions to it.

The journey to international recognition, however, has been a formidable one for Vietnam's contemporary artists, from the North and the South. War and revolution, politics and igno-

ours.

Do Manh Cuong Sword Lake.

KOWLOON

Bui Van Quang Flying the Kite rance, have all been profound hindrances to broad and free artistic development. But in the midst of even the most brutal and turbulent of times, Vietnam's artists have shown unflinching loyalty and certainty in the power of art to inspire and to heal. Where much contemporary Chinese aft is highly derivative in content and style, colour and line, contemporary Viet-

namese art is surprisingly light and bucolic, urbane and erotic. Why this should be owes perhaps as much to the Viet-

Vo Thanh Liem Girls in the Garden

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namese character as it does to the lack of strong contemporary Western inf luences. What Western influences mark contemporary Vietnamese art seems to stem much more from a distant, gentler past

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More true stories about those 'Little Murders' of our times "TrLtth' s open to everyone, and the claims aren't (Seneca, lst century A.D.) very year more organisations in our "age of information" prepare the records of those thick and slimy accretions of little murders, disappearances, beatings, tortures,

arrests or arbitrary detentions, orthreats

of the above as they occur to journalists, writers, editors and publishers not unlike the way in which indignant Spanish priests carefully recorded the horrors their nation's conquistadores perpetrated upon the Aztecs and the

By Fred Armentrout

all staked yet." arrests.

Tiresome as lists are, it is instructive

to look at P.E.N.'s incident categories June) on grounds that it was aimed at undermining the ChinĂ¨se system; in Hong Kong one pro-Taiwan journalist

beaten to death, one Catholic publisher of religious tracts under threat of repatriation to Vietnam, one photo-journalist

arrested for and later acquitted of as-

for the seven months (numbers show world total over Asian): Killed (38/5), Died in Prison (1/0), Disappeared (43l 4), Long-term detainees (318/213), short-

term (18/4), briefly detained (117t3), Town/House arrest (8/8), Kidnapped (4/0), Newly sentenced (2017), Newly arrested (53/5), Deporlation ordered (5/ 0), Attacked (93/6), Threatened (38/0), ln hiding (1217), Exiled (3/1), Banished

lncas.

saulting police at a BCCI demonstration (all described in the P.E.N. report).

And beneath the record of every known murdered journalist's corpse is that sense

be learned from the annals of absurdity,

(1/1), Expelled (512). The second and most important rea-

cruelty and horror produced by these writer-protection organisations: Know the lay of the land, know the uniforms

son to gather information from and about organisations like P.E.N. and the others noted is that they need active members

and disguises of those who've declared themselves the enemies of free expression, and knowthe ways in which they've proved their malice - before you get there on assignment. These countryby-country reports offer insights into local practices. ln the seven months between August 1991 and March 1992, the P.E.N. repod lisls 777 identified journalist/writer incidents world-wide, whose victims suffered one or more of 17 government, terrorist or war induced unpleasantries. Thirly-eight of those people suffered the ultimate censorship of being killed, some brutally dismembered.

and financial support. A clearer under-

of an undiscovered mass grave of vic-

tims who, like the indians of the New World, are mostly doomed to the putre-

fied heap of nameless dismissal - a body-bag of statistics expressed as a sum of "civilian casualties" or "the disappeared" or "the salvaged" within the lifetime of a junta or a terrorist organisa-

tion or a period of civil strife. There are two reasons why the recently released annual reports of the lnternational P.E.N. Writers in Prison Committee (UK-based) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (US-based) should be closely read by members and purchased for use in the new FCC working-room library when it's completed (as should be the annual reports of the lnternational Federation of Journalists, Afticle 19 and Amnesty lnternational): The first is simple self-defense. The overwhelming majority of the identified victims are journalists, writers, editors or publishers by profession or avocation. And the menace at which those reports point can and have happened here: throughout Asia, the news beat of

FCC members; in China, the future landlord of the FCC whose Public Security

Bureau forced the Beijing FCC

to cancel a private luncheon for author and China scholar Orville Schell (last

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Three common-sense lessons can

Of those incidents, 266 occurred in what the reporl identifies as 19 Asian countries (a country sum subject to dis-

pute, since they list East Timor and Tibetas separate countries). Asia hosted about 34% of the "incidents" and Asian countries generally are less inclined to execute or cause to disappear unwelcome witnesses as they are to incarcerate them with or without trial for long periods - like 10 to 20 years. They also are more accommodating, accounting for all identified cases of town/house

standing of them may cause you to join. They do more than keep records. They make representations to country authorities; they provide investigators

or spur international or concerned national authorities to do so; they directly assist affected journalists and writers

by "adopting" them or making them "honorary members" of local chapters

Our all

and therein shower prison keepers with postcards, membership cards and anything else that may keep prisoners

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heartened (if they are allowed to receive mail) and their tormentors dismayed in any case; they pull down their tired drums and clarions to sound the alarm each time a new "incident" occurs; they help raise money to buy the

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keep constant pressure on their own governments to recognise and accept that the Rights of Man must be made to supersede the rights of national sovereignties to abuse them; and they uncover and repudiate new excuses for repression of free speech - such as that noted in a recommendation put to

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the lnternational P.E.N. by its English Centre at a recent congress in Barce-

leases, in 15 countries, recorded in the seven months, and no one source of

lona, which may soon come to have

support for those prisoners released

special meaning for Hong Kong: "The English Centre draws the atten-

can be identified as paramount. How many were reprieved from death because killing them was made to seem more trouble than letting them go is

tion of all P.E.N. Centres to the insidious threat and reality of censorship from any application of the concept of 'political correctness'; and urges the Assem-

and publicly condemn every instance where the concept of 'political correct-

unknown. No silver bullets. No glory days. And all that effort in the knowledge that some of those people one is trying to save may well be extremely u npleasant types themselves. Why bother?

ness' is used to censor the expression

These organizations' effofts are not

of free thought by implied or overt politi-

about the rights and wrongs of individual cases - they are about making sure more individuals survive and have the chance to make their cases. Like other global movements, such as environmentalism, they are an effort to raise "the

bly of Delegates to resolve that, 'All P.E.N. Centres shall monitor, record

cal, commercial, academic or social threat, anathema to all those who share P.E.N.'s concern for and desire to promote freedom of expression."' ln short, they work hard to keep the final, fatal statistics of killings and disappearances to a minimum and to shorten the lengths of what are clearly politically motivated detentions. Known direct rewards are small: there were only 39 re-

lowest common denominators" of human values and the behaviour of national governments as they relate, in this case, to the exercise of freedom of expression. The only thing worse than

the world's civilians being driven to finally fighting back in this way, would be the alternative.

Editors note: lf you are interested in joining the new P.E.N. (English-language) Chapter'in Hong Kong contact Fred Armentrout (Tel: 526-0165 or Fax: 810-1289 office) or David Clive Price, who is preparing a fundraising event for the P.E.N. Writers in Prison Committee later this year. They also have information on the P.E.N. (Chinese-language) Chapter in Hong Kong. The lnternational Federation of Journalists can be joined through the Hong Kong Journalists Assn., which also has contact information for the Committee to Protect Journalists. Amnesty lnternational has an active chapter in Hong Kong.)

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