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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1988

"HONG KONG IS A DENSELY POPULATED CITY WHERE NEWS TRAVELS FAST.

FROM NERVOUSNESS

TIME THE COMMUNITY IS VULNERABLE TO BOUTS OF ACUTE TO TIME, HE SAID.

ASIDE.

"

"POWERFUL REASONS INDEED, AND NOT ONES TO BE CAST LIGHTLY

"LOOKING BACK NOW, IN A LESS HEATED ATMOSPHERE, STILL STAND AS VALID," HE ADDED.

REASONS THAT

THIS COUNCIL

"IT WAS FOR THESE APPROACH AND DECIDED TO DRAW THE LINE WHERE IT DID, AT FIRST INSTANCE," HE SAID.

THOSE REASONS

ENDORSET THAT LEAST IN THE

OUT то THE MEDIA AND HAD OWNERS, PUBLISHERS, EDITORS, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN VIEWS FROM ALL PERSPECTIVES.

MR TSAO SAID THAT HE HAD REACHED

PEOPLE AT SPOKEN TO

ALL LEVELS WORKING JOURNALISTS

——

CONTACT

WITH

"THIS LIAISON HAS OF COURSE INCLUDED REPRESENTATIVES

INDUSTRY'S MAIN UMBRELLA ORGANISATIONS INCLUDING THE HONG KONG JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION," HE SAID.

OF THE

LEGAL PROFESSION AND I WAS ALSO IN TOUCH WITH THE

FROM SOME MEMBERS OF THE MUCH VALUABLE ADVICE SURPRISINGLY, THE VIEWS ALL POINTED TO ONE DIRECTION."

RECEIVED

BAR. PERHAPS NOT

BASTION OF THE

MR TSAO SAID HONG KONG WAS AND WOULD REMAIN A

FREE PRESS.

"THERE WAS NEVER ANY DOUBT IN THE GOVERNMENT'S MIND ABOUT INTENTION, HE SAID.

THAT

"BUT IF

THERE

WERE DOUBTS

ELSEWHERE, LET THEM

NOW BE

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DISPELLED.

DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.

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