5. After talking things over with Leslie Monson and you on 4 May I hope to be able to:-
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set up a programme for May/June/early July whose main elements would be as in the attached draft outline, which combines the suggestions in your letter and those of Wright and Moore;
agree what, if any, visiting it would be worth doing outside the UK in July/August, and start to take soundings of the Embassies concerned.
One point I would like cleared up in advance is who will make the detailed arrangements? I'm afraid it won't be practical for me to do this from Ayrshire.
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No doubt the briefs I will start reading in May will suggest other things to look at and people to see. Obvious omissions from the present draft programme are:-
Narcotics Prisons
Education (other than technical)
but I would prefer to consider what, if anything, it is worth doing on these after reading briefs.
8. A further omission is the international trade of Hong Kong which obviously is crucial. I don't know what I can do about this in advance, and before considering it further would like to read the briefs and have a word with Sellers and Grimwood and, of course, David Trench. But I have this item in mind for priority during the final period of calls and briefing in September/October, by when the Common Market implications may be clearer.
9. To keep lines from getting crossed I am sending a copy of this letter to Michael Wright and enclose a spare for you to send to John Moore.
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tha Caoibhose
C M MacLehose
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