Mr Donald
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I think
I attach a draft answer to a Question by Mr Robert Parry.
Mr Parry is obviously trying to cause embarrassment.
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a straight 'No' causes less difficulty than any qualification
with such addition as 'the matter is still under consideration'.
Anything that we say could be misinterpreted either at anti-
cipating an early announcement or as an admission that we were
being slow.
Bip
28 October 1981
R D Clift
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