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TO IMMEDIATE DO I TELNO INDUS 10 OF 14 JANUARY 1978
AND SAVING TO PEKING.
MY INDUS 8. PUBLICITY FOR HONG KONG POWER STATION PROJECT. FOLLOWING ARE SUGGESTED AMENDMENTS TO TEXT IN YOUR INDUS 7. THEY HAVE BEEN CO-ORDINATED AND AGREED BY CLP, ESSO AND JEAFFRESON'S PUBLICITY COMMITTEE.
2. OFF THE RECORD BACKGROUND NOTE. YOUR PARA 5.
(A) SUBSTITUTE NEW SUB PARA 1.
''THE PRIME MINISTER EXPRESSED INTEREST IN THE CONTRACT WHEN SIR LAWRENCE KADOORIE CALLED ON HIM LAST MARCH. SIR LAWRENCE SAID THAT CLP AND ESSO HOPED THAT INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVE PRICES WOULD BE OFFERED BY BRITISH MANUFACTURERS SO THAT IT COULD BE POSSIBLE FOR A NEW COMPANY BEING ORGANISED BY CLP/ESSO TO BUY BRITISH EQUIPMENT AS HAD BEEN THE PRACTICE''. COMMENT WE BELIEVE THIS PLACES THE EMPHASIS ON THE PRICE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE UK OFFER RATHER THAN ON NEGOTIATED CONTRACT. IT THUS IS PREFERABLE IN TONE FOR THE COST CONSCIOUS HONG KONG CONSUMER AND REMOVES THE CONNOTATION THAT THE UK MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO COMPETE EFFECTIVELY ON A NON-NEGOTIATED BASIS
(B) SUB-PARAS 2 AND 3 ARE ACCEPTABLE BUT ESSO SHOULD BE SUBSTITUTED FOR EXXON IN SECOND LINE OF SUB-PARA 3 AND THEREAFTER THROUGHOUT TEXT.
(C) SUBPARA 4. CLP WISH ALL REFERENCE TO POSSIBILITY OF BUYER CREDIT IN HONG KONG DOLLARS REMOVED AND SUUGGESTS THAT THE PARA ENDS THE PACKAGE INCORPORATES THE UNIQUE OFFER OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FROM BEI/CEGB ETC.'!
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(D) SUBPARAS 5 AND 6. NO COMMENTS.
SUB PARA 7. WE SUGGEST SUBSTITUTION OF 'CLP/ESSO WERE NOW
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