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ON

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1987

"MAY I TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO URGE ALL OF US TO TAKE NOTE

AND EXAMINE SERIOUSLY WHETHER OR NOT IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF

THIS FACT, COOL OUR HEADS,

OPENLY OVER SQUABBLING INTRODUCTION," HE SAID.

JUST

A FEW

OF

YEARS'

THE QUESTION HONG KONG ΤΟ CONTINUE

IN DIFFERENCE

IT'S

OF

DISRUPTION

IT WAS NO LONGER CONSTRUCTIVE TO CONTINUE TO FOSTER TO THE GENERALLY HARMONIOUS ATMOSPHERE PREVAILING IN THE COMMUNITY.

CLOSER

THIS

INDEED, NOW IS THE TIME FOR ALL OF US TO START WORKING

FROM THE GOVERNMENT AN ASSURANCE TOGETHER WITH A VIEW TO SECURING

TO INTRODUCED ELECTED DIRECTLY THAT THERE WILL BE A

HE SAID. COUNCIL. IN EITHER 1991 OR 1992,

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ELEMENT

SURVEY REPORT FULFILLED ITS FUNCTION

IN

ΤΟ

FUNCTION OF PRESENTING HONG KONG PUBLIC

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

THE SURVEY REPORT HAS FULFILLED ITS AS MUCH DETAIL AS POSSIBLE THE RESPONSE OF THE THE GREEN PAPER, THE HON SELINA CHOW SAID IN THE TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

OUT SET

CLEARLY AND FACTUALLY MRS CHOW SAID THE REPORT HAD DIFFERENT GROUPS OF VIEWS SUBMITTED BY THE PUBLIC ACCORDING TO THEIR NO ASSESSMENT AND VARIOUS SOURCES AND ORIENTATIONS AND IT ATTEMPTED

THE READERS DREW NO CONCLUSIONS FROM THE VIEWS IT PRESENTED, LEAVING MAXIMUM FREEDOM TO DO BOTH.

THE CONTROVERSY ON DIRECT ELECTIONS AS EXPECTED, SHE SAID,

SINO-BRITISH WHICH HAD HAUNTED OUR COMMUNITY SINCE THE SIGNING OF THE JOINT DECLARATION PERSISTED.

"IT WOULD BE QUITE FRUITLESS TO SPLIT HAIRS TO JUDGE THE ENTIRE REPORT ON A TABLE OR TWO."

OVER

FIGURES,

OR

BE BOGGED THE MRS CHOW SAID

TEMPTATION TO EXTRACTED FIGURES WAS GREAT BUT MUST BE RESISTED.

DOWN

A BY

FEW

"MUCH HAS BEEN MADE OF THE 100,000 PRE-PRINTED SUBMISSIONS THE 230,000 SIGNATURES.

AND

AND WHATEVER "WITH THE GREATEST RESPECT TO THEIR SIGNATORIES,

ORGANISED VIEWS, WHICH SHOULD THEIR PERSUASION, THEY ARE AFTER ALL NOT BE ASSIGNED THE WEIGHTING OF REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES OF THE POPULATION."

ENTIRE

/SHE SAID

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