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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1988
MR TSAO SAID THE QUESTION WHICH MANY PEOPLE
IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AND INTEREST NOW WITHOUT COMMITMENT.
"THIS
11
MAY ON
COMPROMISE, MR TSAO SAID.
HAD
RAISED BOTH OUTSIDE WAS WHY NOT REGISTER AN
THE
SURFACE APPEAR
ΤΟ
BE
AN ATTRACTIVE
IS ISSUE
AND HUMAN
то WHETHER WE CAN AFFORD
AWAY FROM ENGINEERING,
DEVISED TO ENSURE
TO
TO COME,
A
"BUT, THE REAL POINT AT RESOURCES, FINANCIAL, DIVERT PROJECTS WHICH FORM THE MAJOR PART OF THE PACKAGE
THE YEARS IN HONG KONG'S STABILITY AND PROSPERITY
H HE ADDED. ONE-OFF GIGANTIC PUBLICITY EXERCISE,
GIVE US THE ANSWER.
"NO AMOUNT OF STUDY BY CONSULTANTS WILL ONLY THE GOVERNMENT IN THE END, CAN PROVIDE IT," HE SAID.
ME TSAO SAID THERE
WAS
ALTHOUGH EQUALLY
THERE NO
NO WAS POINT IN
POINT IN
A MAKING
DECISION, REGISTRATION WHICH IN ITSELF WAS UNDESIRABLE.
DELAYING A CONTINGENCY
WITH
EXPERTS
HE POINTED OUT THAT A NUMBER OF PROPOSED EXPOS REGISTERED THE RIE THAT HAD FALLEN BY THE WAYSIDE HAD BEEN DESCRIBED BY IN THIS FIELD AS FAILURES"
"I DOUBT 1F HONG KONG WOULD WISH TO HAVE ITS NAME MENTIONED YEARS TO COME, IN THE CONTEXT OF A FAILURE.
IN
BOUND TO
WITHDRAW, THERE WOULD "FURTHER, IT WE WERE TO REGISTER, THEN BE ALL SORTS OF THEORIES: THE MOST READY AND POPULAR ONE IS BE THAT WE DID SO UNDER UNSPECIFIED POLITICAL PRESSURE.
"1F THE INTENTION OF HOSTING AN EXPO IS, AS MR CHEONG TO INJECT CONFIDENCE, THEN TO WITHDRAW OUR BID WITH THE BIE TO HAVE THE OPPOSITE EFFECT," MR TSAO SAID.
ARE CONVINCED
THAT
ASSERTS, [S BOUND
THERE ARE SOUND PRACTICAL WE "BUT IF
NOW RATHER THAN ALLOW REASONS FOR NOT GOING AHEAD WE SHOULD SAY SO THE ISSUE TO DRAG ON AND ENCOURAGE FURTHER EXPECTATION TO BE BUILT UP," HE ADDED.
MOOTED,
AN EXPO, WHEN IT
STIMULATING ONE.
FIRST WAS MR TSAO NOTED THAT THE IDEA OF
BUT THE WAS
A WELCOMED AS
MOST
RESERVATIONS ABOUT THE ADMINISTRATION HAD MADE IT CLEAR THAT IT HAD
GROUP PROPOSAL WHICH WERE SPELT OUT TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL AD HOC AND TO THE PUBLIC THROUGH THE PRESS.
LOOK MOST CAREFULLY "IT WOULD BE IRRESPONSIBLE FOR US NOT TO
POINT INTO THE PRACTICABILITY AND FEASIBILITY OF THE PROJECT FROM THE OF VIEW OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
/"IN PARTICULAR,