ESSENTIAL FACTS
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1. Miss Clare Hollingworth is a former correspondent of the "Daily
Telegraph" who now lectures full-time at Hong Kong University. She
is a frequent visitor to London where she has recently lectured
twice on the future of Hong Kong.
2. Miss Hollingworth knows a number of senior Chinese officials.
Early in August the new Military Attaché at the Chinese Embassy told
her that the Sino-British talks on Hong Kong's future were not
proceeding as well as they should, essentially because of our
intransigence over the sovereignty issue.
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