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HONG KONG: OPPOSITION LEADERS: CHECKLIST OF POINTS TO MAKE
Confidentiality.
Prime Minister's visit.
Talks: slow progress.
Substantive talks July.
Delegations.
Good atmosphere.
SAR plan: Hong Kong scepticism.
July/September rounds. We attempted educative process. Chinese suspicious.
October. Proposed discussion, without prejudice of Chinese proposals.
November. Heavier going.
December. Some progress. Much exploration necessary.
Sir P Cradock's farewell calls.
Hong Kong opinion. In close touch.
Chinese propaganda.
September 1984 deadline.
Chinese 'reconsideration' of 1997.
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