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ARRI SON
4.
announcement
that
No perceptible concern in Hong Kong over
garrison will be reduced by one battalion from 1987. No Chinese
reaction.
VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
5.
Following the UK's decision to accept an additional 500 Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong we are actively pressing other
resettlement countries also to take additional members. Australia
has agreed to take an extra 200 n ext year. Responses from others not very encouraging. 10,000 refugees still in Hong Kong camps.
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