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to him anymore than they did to anyone else. When Lord Goror Roberts had visited Indonesia last year he had made private representations on the political prisoners issue. We had mede renewed representations subsequently. There was evidence thei this had had some results, though he could not go into individual cases. His initial feeling was that cutting off aid would not help. He would be seeing Mr Whitlam at Kingston shortly and would talk over the whole matter with him there and let the delegation know the outcome.
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Mr Callaghan said this was about the eighth time a delegation from the NEC had been received; that worked out at about once every six weeks, which wasn't bad. Mr Mikardo said they had absolutely no complaints on that score.
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1 May 1975
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