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OFFICIAL AS SAYING THAT GRANTING PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TO FRIENDLY NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES WAS JUSTIFIED. THE OFFICIAL ADDED THEY UNDERSTOOD DIFFERENT NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES HAD THEIR OWN POLITICAL STANCE BUT THEY HOPED THE HK MEDIA WOULD COOPERATE WITH THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
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36. THE PAPER REPORTED (8.6) ACCORDING TO A POLL AMONG 2,000 SECONDARY STUDENTS, THE GOVERNOR WAS THE MOST POPULAR POLITICAL FIGURE IN HK WHILE HKMAO DIRECTOR LU PING WAS THE MOST UNPOPULAR.
37. THE HK ECONOMIC TIMES (10.6) HAD COMMISSIONED A TELEPHONE SURVEY ON 3 TO 4 JUNE ON THE SUBJECT OF THROUGH TRAIN. OUT OF THE 802 RESPONDENTS, 34.5 PERCENT SUPPORTED AN UNCONDITIONAL THROUGH TRAIN: 26.7 PERCENT SUPPORTED A THROUGH TRAIN UPON DECLARATION OF ALLEGIANCE TO BL BY LEGISLATORS: AND 23.2 PERCENT SUPPORTED THAT APART FROM DECLARATION LEGISLATORS HAD TO SATISFY CERTAIN CRITERIA LAID DOWN BY THE CHINESE SIDE. WHEN ENQUIRED ON WHETHER THEY WOULD SUPPORT ANY CHINESE MOVE TO BAR MARTIN LEE AND SZETO WAH FROM THE THROUGH TRAIN, ONLY 17 PERCENT OF THE RESPONDENTS EXPRESSED SUPPORT AND 60 PERCENT AGAINST. 51 PERCENT SUPPORTED THE GOVERNOR'S CONSTITUTIONAL PROPOSAL.
38. AN OPINION SURVEY CONDUCTED BY THE CITY AND NEW TERRITORIES ADMINISTRATION IN MAY FOUND PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE HAD IMPROVED AND 75 PERCENT OF THE RESPONDENTS WERE SATISFIED WITH THE PRESENT SITUATION IN HK COMPARED WITH 68 PERCENT IN MARCH THIS YEAR.
39. SING TAO DAILY (11.6) GAVE THE RESULTS OF A POLL IT COMMISSIONED ON JUNE 8 AND 9 AMONG 1,418 PEOPLE. THE POLL FOUND 44 .8 PERCENT OF THE RESPONDENTS EXPECTED THAT THE FIFTH ROUND OF SINO-BRITISH TALKS WOULD SEE PROGRESS: 68.7 PERCENT AGREED THE LEGCO PANEL SHOULD DISCUSS THE 1994/95 ELECTORAL REFORMS: 41.9 PERCENT SUPPORTED THE PASSAGE OF THE BEC BILL IN LEGCO: 67.2 PERCENT DID NOT SHARE THE CHINESE SIDE'S VIEW THAT THE BRITISH WERE PLAYING PETTY TRICKS AND THUS POSING OBSTACLES TO THE TALKS.CENDS PART TWO OF TWO)
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