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Classification
SECRET
OUT TELEGRAM
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Caveat
Precedence
IMMEDIATE
2 becomes widespread and unmistakable between now and 1987. The
3 influence of the newly-formed Hong Kong Link, which last month 4 published its call for early direct elections in "Hong Kong
5 Towards the Future", will we believe be secondary to pressure
from within Hong Kong itself.
7 3.
The above assessment applies generally to the relatively
8 Large group of MPs, both inside the Ango-Hong Kong Parliamentary
9 Group and out, who have visited Hong Kong in recent years and who
10 have developed an interest in Hong Kong largely through the
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progress of the negotiations.
But there is, within the
12 Anglo-Hong Kong Group, a very small number of MPs, mainly on the
13 Left, who take a doctrinaire view of the need for early direct
elections in Hong Kong and who will attack the 1987 review as
15 woefully inadequate if it proposes anything less than these,
16 These MPs include Messrs Canavan, Parry, Freeson, Gould and Bray.
appear to That's not carry weigh
17 This group does not
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weight with other Members on Hong Kong
18 issues.
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20 HOWE
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23 YYYY
24 MAIN
25 FUTURE OF HONG KONG
26 LIMITED
27 HD/HK D
28 HD/FED
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HD/PLANNING STAFF
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HD/PUSD
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DEP/HD/PUSD
RESEARCH DEPT
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(MR WALKER)
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