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THE HONG KONG BALLET AND A PERFORMANCE OF NUTCRACKER. IT IS T3 GALA OPENING PERFORMANCE OF A SEASON THAT THEY ARE DOING. MY REASON FOR GOING IS QUITE SIMPLY TO SUPPORT THE KONG BALLET WHICH IS A SPLENDID ORGANISATION AND WHICH DOES SUPPORT.. IT TURNS OUT THAT PART OF THE SPONSORSHIP FOR ORGANISATION COMES FROM LES MUST DE CARTIER AND PART OF SPONSORSHIP FOR THE EST OF THE PROGRAMME, OR THE TOTAL' PROGRAMME, ALSO COMES FROM, I 1 INK, ULTIMATELY THE ROTHMANS GROUP. I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THAT {PONSORSHIP ARRANGEMENT WHEN I ACCEPTED THE INVITATION. I DO NOT THINK IT WOULD BE RIGHT FOR ME TO WITHDRAW FROM THAT SIMPLY BECAUSE 'HERE IS AN ELEMENT OF SPONSORSHIP FOR THE WHOLE SERIES COMING ULTI (ATELY FROM THE TOBACCO COMPANY. AS FAR AS GOVERNMENT POLICY IS CONCERNED, THE GOVERNMENT IS VERY KEEN TO POINT OUT TO PEOPLE THE HF LTH DANGERS OF SMOKING AND TO TRY TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE NOT TO SMOKE. AND THAT MEANS THAT WHEN THERE IS
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FANNY WONG, C THE ORIENTAL DAILY NEWS: SIR DAVID, IN THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT IT SUGGESTS NO CLEAR SUPPORT FOR INTRODUCING DIRECT ELECTIONS INT OUR LEGISLATURE NEXT YEAR. IT DOES INDICATE THAT THERE IS A MAJC ITY SUPPORT FOR INTRODUCING DIRECT ELECTIONS BEFORE 1997? IN T AT CASE, WOULD THE GOVERNMENT MAKE A FIRM COMMITMENT ON THE WH TE PAPER THAT WE SHALL HAVE DIRECT ELECTIONS BEFORE 1997?
H.E. I CAN'T TELL YOU EXACTLY WHAT WILL GO INTO THE WHITE PAPER AT THE MOMENT ́ECAUSE THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, WILL WANT ΤΟ ΤΑΚΕ PLENTY OF TIME TO CO SIDER ALL OF THE DETAIL THAT IS IN THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT BEFORE COMING DECISIONS ON THE COMPLETE PACKAGE SO
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CAN TELL YOU. SOMETHING ABOUT THE ARAMETERS WITHIN WHICH THAT DECISION WILL BE TAKEN. I THINK THE PAMETERS MUST BE SEEN AS THE WAY IN WHICH THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONGAVE RESPONDED. THAT HAS SHOWN THAT MOST OF THOSE WHO TAKE AN INTEREST IN THIS SUBJECT DO BELIEVE THAT THERE SHOULD BE SOME ELEMENT OF DIRECT ELECT ONS BEFORE 1997. IT HAS ALSO SHOWN THAT THERE IS A CONSIDER/ 3LE SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY WHICH HAS NOT RESPONDED, DOESN'T HAVE A VIEW, OR HASN'T PUT FORWARD A VIEW. AND THIRDLY IT HAS SHOWN THAT ON THE QUESTION OF 1988, THE COMMUNITY IS SHARPLY DIVIDED. sc THAT CREATES THE PARAMETERS WITHIN WHICH DECISIONS HAVE TO BE TAKEN. BUT I CAN'T, AS I SAY, TELL YOU PRECISELY WHAT THE DECISIONS IN THE WHITE PAPER WILL BE BECAUSE THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL HAS STILL TO REFLECT ON THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY OFFICE REPORT AND THEN TO GE ITS ADVICE AND I EXPECT THAT TO TAKE A FEW WEEKS' TIME YET.
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FANNY WONG: SI S.Y. CHUNG HAD SAID THAT IN THE ASSESSMENT THE POLITICAL REVIEW, THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL IS UNDER PRESSURES BOTH CHINA, BRITAIN A ID LOCAI PUBLIC OPINION. SO, WOULD YOU WEIGHT WOULD BE ATTAC IED TO EACH OF THESE THREE ELEMENTS, GOVERNMENT BOW TO THE PRESSURE OF CHINA AT THE EXPENSE OF VIEN?
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