In two editorials, King Pro Evening News (4.8 and 5.8) aald China fully understood that the mintea ace of HR's prosperity relied very much on local capitalista's confidence to continue to Invest in the territory, It was neither the wish of the British-BK authorities aur thins to introduce direct elections here which would scare away
investora
A number of columnists in the Financial Daily and Economic Journal continued to champion for direct elections without breaking Dev ground in their commsotatiea.
mmist Bapere: There was no editorial comment on the
aubject in this section of the pres.
English-langue Papera
Coverage of the Green Paper, and discussion of it, continued to be a daily feature in the English-language press, although prominence tended to be given to other future-related topics.
Much public comment and reaction to the Paper centred on direct elections versum indirect elections, the role of functionel constituencies and the number or proportion of Lagco seats which
should be directly elected.
A survey by all 18 district offices showed that most people favoured indirect elections to Legco as the first step to opening up
the government,
There was a warning from HK Polytechnic social work lecturer La Ming-kwn that grassroots pressure groups, disappointed with the Green paper, could resort to radical politics.