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3. Some of the above tasks are overlapping and clearly the amount of background work is considerable but, as you will appreciate, is necessary if we are to write an authoritative paper for Ministers on this complex set of problems.
I am minuting separately to Miss Brett Rooks on the HMOCS commitment
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factors will also need to be brought into the equation.
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These
I should be grateful if the various contributions, as outlined above, could be submitted to me in draft as it is too early to say yet whether they will all take the form of annexes or, in some cases, be fitted into the main body of the text of the final paper, which will, itself, probably be an annex to a brief submission to the Secretary of State seeking his agreement to further work on the subject.
P Morrice
18 November 1980
Hong Kong and General Department
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