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THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1987

"WHAT MATTERS NOW IS THAT THROUGH POSITIVE ACTION, HE SAID.

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MEET WE

THE

CHALLENGE BEFORE US

STAND

"NOW MORE THAN EVER BEFORE, THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG MUST UNITED, OR BE CONQUERED BY DIVISION AND DELUSION OF OUR OWN MAKING.

"

AND DISCUSS COHERENTLY HE URGED THE PEOPLE TO READ CAREFULLY

IN THE GREEN PAPER; EVALUATE AND COHESIVELY THE OPTIONS CONTAINED

THE GOOD THEM RATIONALLY AND COOLLY; AND EVENTUALLY MAKE CHOICES FOR OF HONG KONG.

HK NOT READY FOR DIRECT ELECTION

THE

THE HON NGAI SHIV-KIT SAID THE SUGGESTION FOR DIRECT ELECTIONS TO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN 1988 IS OBVIOUSLY A RAPID CHANGE TO

ARE WHEN CONDITIONS

NOT YET BASIS OF HONG KONG'S POLITICAL SYSTEM READY FOR IT.

ON THE CHIEFLY VULNERABLE INTRODUCE

DEBATE SPEAKING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL DURING THE

BEING OF HONG KONG, GREEN PAPER, MR NGAI SAID THE ECONOMY EXPORT-ORIENTED, SMALL IN SIZE AND WEAK IN FOUNDATION, WAS

NOT DESIRABLE TO TO OUTSIDE INFLUENCES. IT WAS THEREFORE ANY RASH POLITICAL REFORM.

СТЕР. UNDER

"IF CHANGE IS REQUIRED, IT SHOULD BE MADE STEP BY NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD WE CARRY OUT DRASTIC CHANGES TO THE POLITICAL SYSTEM TO WHICH WE ARE SO USED AND UPON WHICH OUR PROSPERITY DEPENDS, HE SAID.

HE NOTED THAT IN THE CONTROVERSY CONCERNING DIRECT ELECTIONS ELECTIONS MEANT TO LEGCO NEXT YEAR IT HAD BEEN SUGGESTED THAT DIRECT

THE PEOPLE IN DEMOCRACY; AND THAT DEMOCRACY MEANT THE CONFIDENCE OF

A CONTINUED PROSPERITY THEIR FUTURE; AND THAT CONFIDENCE MEANT THAT

WERB WAS ENSURED. IT HAD ALSO BEEN SUGGESTED THAT IF DIRECT ELECTIONS

FOR HONG KONG, HE NOT INTRODUCED NEXT YEAR, THERE WOULD BE NO HOPE ADDED.

HE SAID HE FELT SORRY FOR THIS KIND OF RIDICULOUS LOGIC, WITH WHICH HE TOTALLY DISAGREED.

THE HE SAID THAT

EFFICACY OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM AND ITS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WERE SOMETHING ABOUT WHICH MANY ADVOCATES OF DIRECT ELECTIONS SAID NOTHING.

BENEFITS TO HONG KONG'S

/HE ADDED