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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1984
THIS WAS WHERE THE HAVE-NOTS+ WHO REMAINED IN HONG KONG COME IN.
IF THEY ALREADY HAD EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR THESE SMALL FACTORIES AND HAD A SMALL CAPITAL, THEY MAY TAKE UP THIS GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR A PROFITABLE BUSINESS AND HELP STABILISE THE COMMUNITY.
THE BELIEVERS+ WERE THOSE WHO HAD EXPRESSED THE IR CONFIDENCE AND WOULD TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE EVEN BEFORE THE PUBLICATION OF THE DRAFT AGREEMENT.
THOSE WHO WERE SINCERE WOULD STICK THROUGH +THICK AND THIN+ AND +TILL DEATH DO THEY PART+, HE SAID.
THE COMMUNITY WAS ONLY WORRIED ABOUT THE SINCERITY OF THOSE WHO LOUDLY SAID +I HAVE CONFIDENCE+ IN FRONT OF THE TV CAMERAS, BUT WHO HAD ALREADY SENT IN THE IR APPLICATIONS FOR EMIGRATION, HE SAID.
+LASTLY, I TURN TO THE BELIEVE-NOTS+,+ MR CHAN CONTINUED. +AFTER EXPRESSING THE IR WORRIES, THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG GOT A LETTER OF COMFORT WITH A CHEQUE FOR AN AMOUNT BIGGER THAN THEY HAD EXPECTED.
+WHY ARE THEY STILL WORRYING ABOUT CASHING IT AFTER JULY 1,
19977+
TO UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM ONE HAD TO LOOK AT THE COMPOSITION OF THE HONG KONG PEOPLE.
ABOUT 150 000 WERE NON-CHINESE AND THE REST WERE OF CHINESE
ORIGIN.
OF THE 5.3 MILLION PEOPLE, ABOUT 2.6 MILLION WERE HONG KONG BORN.
THE REMAINING 2.7 MILLION, MOSTLY CAME TO HONG KONG FROM MAINLAND CHINA DURING THE VARIOUS POLITICAL MOVEMENTS.
FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN A SOCIETY GOVERNED BY THE RULE OF LAW, IT WAS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THE TURMOIL WHICH THESE PEOPLE UNDERWENT.
SOME WERE SUDDENLY DEPRIVED OF ALL THEIR EARTHLY POSSESSIONS AND FOUND THAT THEIR OWN CHILDREN TURNED INTO THE IR PROSECUTORS ON CHARGES WHICH WERE NON-EXISTENT.
NEIGHBOURS AND RELATIVES TURNED INTO WITNESSES AND THE POE WAS THE JUDGE.
THE EARTH SEEMED TO HAVE OPENED UNDER THE IR FEET AND HEAVEN CAME DOWN LIKE A COLLAPSED CEILING,
/IF THEY