TO PUT UPON THE VIETNAMESE, IS SO TO ALTER THEIR POLICIES THAT LIFE IS TOLERABLE FOR PEOPLE IN THEIR COUNTRY. THEN YOUR QUESTION WOULDN'T ARISE.

QUESTION: YOU HAVE MET THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO PEKING. IS

THERE ANY CONSEQUENCE OF THE MEETING?

LORD CARRINGTON: THE CONSEQUENCE IS THAT I AM BETTER

INFORMED ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN PEKING THAN BEFORE I MET

HIM.

CARRINGTON

FILES SEAD

NEWS D M & VD

ADDITIONAL DISTN.

BOAT PEOPLE

HK & GD

UND

FED

EESD

NAM D

SAD

EID

PUSD

OID IPD

PS PS/LPS PS/MR.HURD

PS/MR.BLAKER

PS/PUS

SIR A DUFF

SIR A PARSONS MR.CORTAZZI

MR.MURRAY MR. STRATTON

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