Date
13.12.85 (cont'd)
14.12.85
Statements by Chinese
Officials
BASIC LAW (280)
Newspaper Comments/Editorials Non-Communist
Communist
Statements/Comments by others
The Express: The
re-election of
office-bearers of the
BLCC executive committee
is welcomed. This shows
that the authorities concerned are brave enough to admit their mistakes.
HK Times: The re-election of BLCC office-bearers has turned an "ugly show" into a "farce". The fact that Mr Mao Junnian of
the NCNA is still made the secretary-general to the panel shows that the Communist Party will not allow "outsider" to take up this key post.
A source quoted by Sing Tao Jih Pao: BLDC vice-chairman Sir Y.K. Pao has claimed full responsibility for the mistake leading to the BLCC office-bearer election controversy. He said he alone drafts the list of the seven office-bearers, and Mr Xu Jiatun has advised him not to propose the list but to no avail.
A group of about 100 lecturers and graduate school students at the two universities and the Baptist College (in a letter to the NCNA HK Branch): Although a fresh election of the
office-bearers was held,
public confidence in the BLCC has already been shaken.