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JAN 1978
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YOUR TELNO BTC 6 AND BTC 7 OF 25 JANUARY: POWER STATION PROJECT
1.
estumata is that.
MacDonald's/press reports are based either
on deliberate move to build up story or on
journalists' difficulty in mastering a complicated story. (As MacDonald told you on 20 January several UK newspapers made errors in their own reports of the press briefing.)
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2. At press briefing on 19 January Mr Williams answered questions closely in line with brief. He did way that HMG and industry had worked together but only in respect of power station propàsals, He said that if the People's Republic provided coal for CLP this would strengthen the good relations that existed between PRC/Hong Kong/ HMG, and acknowledged that this had been discussed at Ministerial level. He also said that UK companies had sold mining machinery to China in the past.
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