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BONG KONG 4 JULY 1989
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Again, you are joining the ranks of the hecklers!
So far as catastrophe is concerned, what we can do fc to try
and ensure a full, widespread, deep perception of just how
cataclysmic that would to and a willingness by buy governmuts tū
respond generously and effectively in the face of that, and that is
the proposition I have already been putting to some of my
colleagues. That is the ultimate cataclys■ scenario.
Ahead of that, no ! anỹ, the most instant thing is to secure
a sensible response to the pattern of economic sanctions, namely to
rule them out. In between, it may be possible I cay no more than
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that to secura 60 mora specific help frum a wider range of
countries in response to the cry for some kind of insurance policy.
I do not kauw.
QUESTION (ATV #RVS):
Your colleague, Robert Adley has suggested that Britain would
turn its back on Bong Kong if Hong Kong were to become ungovernable
What are your thoughts on that, Sir, the
before 1997.
possibility that Hong Kong my become ungovernable?