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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1987

REFERRING TO THE SPRECHES BY MEMBERS DURING THE POLICY DEBATE, HE SAID THE USE OF THE TRRM "POLITICAL ARENA" WAS QUITE APPROPRIATE, AS THERE WERK NOT ONLY GLADIATORS FIGHTING AGAINST GLADIATORS BUT ALSO GLADIATORS KILLING OR KILLED

FIERCE ANIMALS SUCH AS LIONS AND TIGERS.

BY

CHINESE

FOR THE CIVIL LITERATURE ABOUT

HE SAID CHINESE PEOPLE USED THE "TIGER" TO REPRESENT GENERALS AND ARMED FORCES, BUT IT WAS DEFINITELY NOT SUITABLE SERVICE, HE ALSO QUOTED A PIECE OF CLASSIC CONFUCIUS TELLING HIS DISCIPLES THAT "HARSH OR CRUEL ADMINISTRATION WAS FIERCER THAN TIGERS".

SPIRIT OF COMPROMISE SHOULD PREVAIL

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HONG

PEOPLE KONG

SHOULD WORK

TOGETHER IN A SPIRIT

COMPROMISE RATHER THAN OF CONFRONTATION AND MISTRUST, THE HON STEPHEN CHEONG SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

PROBLEMS LYING THE PEOPLE SHOULD ADDRESS AND RESOLVE THE MANY

WITH A SENSE OF DEDICATION AND AHEAD OF THEM BY WORKING TOGETHER PRAGMATISM, HE SAID.

HONG KONG HAD то IN ORDER TO SURVIVE AS AN AUTONOMOUS POLITY, ACHIEVE AND MAINTAIN THE TWIN GOALS OF STABILITY AND PROSPERITY.

ΤΟ ACT INTEGRITY SUCH AS TENDED KONG

MR CHEONG SAID THAT FOR ANYONE, OR ANY PRESSURE GROUP,

DISCREDITING THE LIKE A WESTERN-STYLE OPPOSITION PARTY IN

ALLEGATIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT THROUGH UNSUBSTANTIATED ACCUSING THE GOVERNOR OF INVITING INTERVENTION FROM PEKING TO INDICATE THAT NOT ENOUGH CONSIDERATION HAD BEEN GIVEN TO HONG REALITIES.

THAT THERE CAN BE NO

PRESENT CONSTITUTED,

IF THE REALITY OF HONG KONG IS BUCH READY ALTERNATIVE TO THE GOVERNMENT AS IT IS AT IT WOULD SEEM REASONABLE FOR ALL OF US TO CONSIDER IN PERFORMING PUBLIC DUTIES SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT

HE SAID. COUNTERPARTS IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES,

IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES OPPOSITION PARTIES

ACCEPTING A ROLE FROM THAT OF OUR

AIMED AT THE ADMINISTRATION DOWN THE PARTY IN POWER BY DISCREDITING POLICIES, WITH A VIEW TO GETTING INTO POWER THEMSELVES.

BRINGING AND ITS

FEASIBLE IN HONG

HE BELIEVED THAT THIS SCENARIO WOULD NOT BE KONG, BECAUSE IT COULD NEVER BE AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY.

/HE SAID