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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1988

THAT THE PUBLIC WAS THE BENEFITS OF DEMOCRATIC RECENT DISTRICT BOARD

DR SOHMEN SAID THAT IF PROOF WAS NEEDED NOT YET FULLY AWARE OR CONVINCED OF PARTICIPATION IN THE POLITICAL PROCESSES, THE ELECTIONS SHOULD HAVE PROVIDED IT.

INTRODUCTION OF DIRECT ANXIOUS NOW SO TERRIBLY WILL THROUGH UNIVERSAL THIS READY OPPORTUNITY

THE EARLY "IF, AS THE PROPONENTS OF ELECTIONS CLAIM, THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG WERE TO HAVE A CHANCE TO EXPRESS THEIR POLITICAL SUFFRAGE, WHY DID THE VOTERS NOT MAKE USE OF TO DEMONSTRATE THIS DESIRE CONVINCINGLY ONCE AND FOR ALL?

OUR MIDST "THE STARK TRUTH IS THAT THE POLITICAL ACTIVISTS IN

AS JUSTIFICATION DO NOT HAVE THE BROAD-BASED SUPPORT WHICH THEY CITE

THE FINDINGS OF THE SURVEY FOR THEIR ATTACKS ON GOVERNMENT AND ON OFFICE, HE SAID.

IF THE ACTIVISTS WISHED TO BE SEEN AS RESPONSIBLE

A BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND THEY MUST LEARN TO SHOW MAJORITY SENTIMENT, HE SAID.

IN

POLITICIANS, ACCEPTANCE

OF

RITE WHILE IN THE ORIENT THE BURNING OF PAPER MIGHT WELL BE A

DEMONSTRATIONS IN FRONT OF OF PURIFICATION OR EXORCISM, THE PUBLIC THE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT AND

THE NEW TERRITORIES IMMEDIATELY WHITE PAPER BROUGHT ΤΟ HIS MIND FOLLOWING THE PUBLICATION OF THE

THE WORLD HAD MEMORIES OF ONE OF THE MOST EVIL TOTALITARIAN SYSTEMS EVER PRODUCED.

KONG STILL THAT PROCESS WITHOUT

THESE SCENES STRENGTHENED HIS CONVICTION THAT HONG

OF POLITICAL EDUCATION, AND HAD A LONG WAY TO GO ON THE ROAD PRECIPITOUS CHANGES IN THE GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES AND ADEQUATE PREPARATION COULD EASILY BACKFIRE.

SURROUNDING THE DR SOHMEN ALSO COMMENTED THAT THE CONTROVERSY

STIGMATIC LABELS CONTENTS OF THE WHITE PAPER HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO THE OF "DEMOCRATS" AND "ANTI-DEMOCRATS" OR "CONSERVATIVES" AND "LIBERALS"

TO

HE SAID THESE CATEGORISATIONS WERE INAPPROPRIATE AND TENDED

THE VIEWS OF THE THE ISSUES AND MISREPRESENT CONFUSE

LARGELY PROTAGONISTS, PARTICULARLY OUTSIDE HONG KONG.

OF

THE

THE PRACTICAL ATTRIBUTES

DEMOCRACY UNDOUBTEDLY WESTERN EXISTED IN HONG KONG ALTHOUGH THEY WERE NOT INSTITUTIONALISED IN SAME FORM AS IN THE PRESENT MOTHER COUNTRY.

OF AND IT WAS SIMPLISTIC AND MISLEADING TO ARGUE THAT A SYSTEM

READILY ENSURE "GREATER" LOCAL UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE BY ITSELF WOULD

OF ACCOUNTABILITY, DEMOCRACY, BETTER REPRESENTATION, A HIGHER DEGREE OR GREATER AUTONOMY AFTER 1997.

LACK OF GOVERNMENT.

PICTURE

THESE SUPERFICIAL GENERALISATIONS ALSO OVERLOOKED

FORM A

FOR

FUTURE COMPOSITE

THE

OF

THE PRESENT KONG HONG

/THE CURRENT .....................