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Jim Berger, Washington Trade Daily, Richard
Lawrence, Journal of Commerce, Drew Weinshank, Defense
Weekly, Jack Cushman, New York Times, George Watson,
senior contributing editor, ABC News, Mr. Barry wiggham,
Mrs. Lavendar Patten, Reginald Stuart, Assistant News
Editor, Knight-Ridder Newspapers, and Chairman of the
National Press Club Speakers' Committee, His Excellency
Sir Robin Renwick, Ambassador of the United Kingdom and
Northern Ireland to the United States, Jack Reynolds, a
member of the National Press Club Speakers Committee who
arranged today's luncheon, Avril Walker, The Economist,
Keith Stafford, News Editor, Reuters, Stephen Robinson,
London Daily Telegraph.
(Applause.)
MR. ADAMS: I would also like to thank staff
members Melissa Bender, Pat Thornsbury, and Melanie Abdul
De Roque for organizing today's luncheon.
Our guest today, the Right Honorable Christopher
Patrick Patten, is the last Governor of the last of
Britain's Royal Crown Colony of Hong Kong. That job is
unique, because he knows to the second when it becomes
history midnight, July 1, 1997.
The governorship is a mid-career change for the
Mr. Patten
former Conservative Party chairman.
orchestrated the campaign which retained John Major as
prime minister while at the same time losing his own
parliamentary seat. He is now the key and controversial
figure in the world's most rapidly growing economic area,
one that encompasses Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South China.
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