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THE PORTUGUESE FOREIGN MINISTER PERES DE MIRANDA SAND AN AN
*INTERVIEW WITH MACAU RADIO EN LISBON THAT THE HK FORMULA COULD NOT
BE APPLIED COMPLETLY TO MACAU. HE HOPED AN AGREEMENT WOULD BE
REACHED WHICH WOULD INCREASE MACAU RESIDENTS' CONFIDENCE AND
PRESERVE PORTUGUESE CULTURE IN THE ENCLAVE. ACCORDING TO AN AFP
DISPATCH IN TODAYS PAPERS, PORTUGUESE SOURCES HAD INDICATED THAT
PORTUGAL WOULD TRY TO PUT FORWARD THE VIEW TO CHINA THAT BOTH
COUNTRIES WOULD BENEFIT OF LISBON CONTINUED TO RUN MACAU FOR SEVERAL
YEARS AFTER 1997. MING PAO REPORTED VICTOR SHIT OF HK U AS SAYING
HE THOUGHT CHINA MIGHT REGAIN SOVEREIGNTY OVER MACAU BETWEEN 2003
TO 2008 AS IT WOULD NOT (NOT) BE BENEFICIAL TO HK IF IT WERE TAKEN
BACK EARL HER.
STATE COUNCILLOR PENGFE TOLD MR RUM MEDINA, LEADER OF THE
PORTUGUESE NEGOTIATING TEAM, THAT CHINA WOULD LOOK TO THE FUTURE WHILE DISCUSSING QUESTIONS LEFT OVER FROM HISTROY.
5. DAYA BAY: THE ORIENTAL DAILY NEWS QUOTING SOURCES CLOSE TO EXCO,
SAID THAT EXCO DISCUSSED HOW THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD RESPOND TO
MOUNTING PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO THE DAYA BAY NUCLEAR PROJECT. THE
MEETING HAD CONCLUDED THAT THE PROJECT HAD DEVELOPED INTO A POLITICAL
AMSSUE REQUIREING A POLITICAL RESPONSE, EDITOR IN CHIEF HU CHUREN
SAND THAT WE THE VIEWS OF HK PEOPLE ON THIS ISSUE WERE NOT TAKEN MINTO CONSIDERATION, THEN THE IDEA OF ONE COUNTRY TWO SYSTEMS'
**HK PEOPLE RULING HK'' AND EVEN THE BASIC LAW WOULD BE USELESS.
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6. OTHERS: MADAM DENG XIANFU, SISTER OF CHINESE LEADER DENG XIAO
PHING SAID TO A WEN WE PO COLUMNIST THAT HER BROTHER HAD SAID HE
WOULD DEFNETLY WISHT HK.
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IN AN INTERVIEW ON RADIO 3, A VISITING OFFICIAL FROM THE HK DEPARTMENT OF THE FCO, ANTHONY LAYDEN, SAND THE HK DEPARTMENT WOULD CONTINUE TO BE NEEDED EVEN WHEN THE JLG WAS ESTABLISHED 'N
HK PERMANENTLY FROM 1988. HE SAND HE WOULD SEE THE DEPARTMENT AS A
VITAL ONE RIGHT UP TO AND BEYOND 1997.
ON THE CIVIL SERVICE, XIAO WE HYUN CO-CONVENOR OF THE BLDC SPECIAL GROUP ON THE SAR POLITICAL STRUCTURE, SAID SERVING
EXPATRIMATES WOULD CONTINUE TO BE EMPLOYED WHETHER THEY HELD A SAR
PERMANENT HD CARD OR NOT. THEY COULD SERVE IN ANY POST EXCEPT AS
HEADS OF MAJOR GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, INCLUDING THE POLICE. THEY COULD ALSO SERVE AS ADVISORS. ORENTAL DAILY NEWS TODAY REPORTED
THAT NONE OF THE WAR VETERANS IN HK HAD YET APPLIED FOR BRI»T««SH
NATIONALITY BECAUSE OF THE VARIOUS DIFFICULTIES IN MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS.
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