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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1987

THE TENDENCY THE GOVERNMENT WAS

HOWEVER, MR CHEN SAID WHAT WAS MORE WORRYING WAS

TO BE RESPONSIVE TO OPINION,

THAT IN TRYING BECOMING UNDULY SENSITIVE TO POLITICAL PRESSURE.

"BECAUSE OF THIS, I AM

THAT THE CONCERNED

AND MAY GRADUALLY

CONDUCIVE ΤΟ HE SAID. "IS THIS

INCREASINGLY GOVERNMENT

PRESENTLY EXECUTIVE-LED ·· SYSTEM, UNWITTINGLY BECOME LEGISLATIVE-LED. SUCH A TREND IS NOT THE EFFICIENCY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF GOVERNMENT, WHAT HONG KONG WANTS?" HE QUESTIONED.

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MR CHEN STRESSED THAT THE PRESENT SYSTEM HAD SERVED WELL AND THERE WAS REALLY NO COMPELLING REASON FOR HASTY CHANGES.

"WHAT WE REALLY NEED IS, PERHAPS, FINER TUNING WELL-RUN MACHINERY," HE SAID.

MR CHEN SAID CHANGES

HONG KONG AND DRASTIC

OF AN ALREADY

MUST BE

IN INTRODUCED

A

PRUDENT AND

GRADUAL MANNER.

WANT "WE MUST FIRST

ΤΟ KNOW WHAT THE POST-1997 POLITICAL BEFORE

DECIDE WE COULD STRUCTURE IS LIKELY TO BE

WHICH DIRECTION ΤΟ ENSURE POLITICAL REFORMS DURING THE TRANSITION PERIOD SHOULD TAKE A SMOOTH TRANSFER OF GOVERNMENT IN 1997.

THERE "WE MUST NOT FORGET THAT

IS A FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE IN ANY DEMOCRACIES, BETWEEN HONG KONG AND OTHER INDEPENDENT STATES.

THEY FIND IT THE PEOPLE CAN THROW OUT OR CHANGE THEIR GOVERNMENT IF

KONG CAN NEVER BE SUCH A INEFFECTIVE OR UNSATISFACTORY. BUT HONG DEMOCRACY EITHER NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.

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FINALLY, MR CHEN SAID: 1 THINK THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG SHOULD WORK CONCENTRATE ON DOING WHAT THEY HAVE ALWAYS DONE BEST, THAT IS TO

WHICH IS THE VERY FOUNDATION HARD TO ENSURE HONG KONG'S PROSPERITY,

FOR HONG KONG'S EXISTENCE, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

"CONTINUED PROSPERITY DEPENDS ON ECONOMIC THAN HASTY AND DRASTIC CHANGES, HE ADDED.

DEVELOPMENTS RATHER

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