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6. A publicly subscribed donation towards some charitable

fund or to help the Falkland Islanders after their liberation might prove much less difficult. Indeed the Cayman Islanders

have had such a subscription and reportedly raised £20,000.

SAMD say that there may well be suitable projects after liberation

such as the provision of a cargo or tourist vessel. (A ship should

have been provided by HMG under a 1971 agreement but this was never implemented). Other ideas are the extension of the runway at Port Stanley and the financing of a meat freezing plant.

R D Clift

Hong Kong and General Department

25 May 1982

We want to ensure that

that Peking does not either draw the gesture ( lookin to the "Future" problem) is getting

huge profit out of

wrong conclusions from the gesture (

That the

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Hong Kong (the Chinese already believe that the

HMG gets from Stang Kong is big). But once

"tax" which

the hostilities

are over, something along the lines of parab above could

Falkland Islanders

help to rehabilitate the

wist our upsetting

Peking. I think we

and such a

pombelity

on me side

until the Stong King Unofficials revert to the matter.

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