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Will the Chinese provide any special facilities, ie a Press Centre, at Minzu Hotel? If so, please provide outline of
services that are likely to be available.
In answering the above points, please distinguish
where appropriate between Press of the Press Party
travelling on Prime Minister's aircraft and
from Hong Kong and elsewwere other journalists that might be travelling independently, to China to cover the visit.
We are advising all UK-based journalists to apply
for visas personally.
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list.of those jounedicts ustanou intend covering-
the visit in the hope that this will facilitate
issue of visas.
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BBC and ITN/are handling their own technical arrangements but they would welcome any assistance the Chinese Government might be able to give in providing them with satellite facilities from
Peking.
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