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TELEGRAM NUMBER 45 OF 20 MARCH, 1979
INFO PRIORITY F.C.0.
FOLLOWING FROM POLITICAL ADVISER.
-MY TELNO 43: GOVERNOR'S VISIT TO CHINA.
1. SPOKE TO THE NCNA ON THE LINES OF PARAGRAPH 4 OF MY TUR.
1 ALSO EXPLAINED THAT WE HAD ASKED YOU TO ACT SIMILARLY IN PEKING. ON LIAO CHENGZHIH, THEY SAID THAT HE HAD RECENTLY BEEN ILL (HEART TROUBLE AND OVERWEIGHT) AND THAT IT MIGHT NOT BE POSSIBLE FOR THE GOVERNOR TO HAVE A SEPARATE APPOINTMENT WITH HIM. THEY THOUGHT HOWEVER THAT LIAO WOULD BE PRESENT WHEN THE GOVERNOR SAW AN
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2. WE AGREED THAT WE WOULD STICK TO THE HOVERFERRY SCHEME FOR GETTING TO CANTON AND THAT THEY WOULD TRY TO ARRANGE FOR THE GOVERNOR TO SEE THE EAST RIVER END OF THE WATER SCHEME.
3. I THANKED THE NCNA FOR THE CONSIDERABLE EFFORTS WHICH HAD CLEARLY BEEN MADE TO INCLUDE LANZHOU IN THE TRIP. THEY REMARKED THAT THIS HAD REQUIRED SOME ADJUSTMENT' TO THE
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