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**YACHT PEOPLE,** AS ONE LOCAL JOKE HAS IT
THAT WOULD LEAVE HONG KONGS THRIVING ECONOMY IN A SHAMBLES. VISA
APPLICATIONS ROSE SHARPLY AFTER THATCHERS VISIT TO PEKING
LAST SEPTEMBER AND MIGHT AGAIN IF PEKING AND LONDON ARE UNABLE TO
RESOLVE THEIR DIFFERENCES. ''DONT FORGET THAT HONG KONG HAS 5
MILLION PEOPLE WHOSE GRANDPARENTS VOTED WITH THEIR FEET SQUARE BRACKET TO LEAVE SQUARE BRACKET CHINA,'' SAYS TREVOR BEDFORD, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF HONG KONG LAND, A VAST PROPERTY CONGLOMERATE. THEY MAY WANT TO DO SO AGAIN IF PEKING MAKES IT CLEAR
THAT HONG KONGS FREEWHEELING WAY OF LIFE IS DOOMED AFTER 1997.
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