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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1991

AT

LARGE,

SIR DAVID IN THE COMMUNITY FURTHERMORE BUSINESSMEN AND COMMUNITY LEADERS, WHO MIGHT APPEAR SUPPORTIVE OF GOVERNMENT IN PRIVATE, SEEMED RELUCTANT TO ENTER THE FRAY.

DEBATE.

SOME ALSO PREFERRED TO CRITICISE RATHER THAN JOIN

SAID,

THE

CONSTRUCTIVE

OF IDENTIFIABLE

HE CAUTIONED THAT IF THERE WERE TO BE A LACK

THE GOVERNMENT WAS SUPPORT IT COULD LEAD TO A SITUATION IN WHICH

PROVE MIGHT

BE WHICH DECISIONS RELUCTANT TO TAKE DIFFICULT

THE PRESS

IN AND MEMBERS, IN LEGCO SOME AMONGST UNPOPULAR COMMUNITY.

"I

AM SURE THAT WILL NOT HAPPEN BECAUSE WE KNOW ONLY TOO THAT LEADERSHIP IS ABOUT TAKING TOUGH DECISIONS AND CONVINCING THAT THOSE DECISIONS ARE RIGHT EVEN IF SOMETIMES IT TAKES A LONG ΤΟ DO So,

OF SAYING WHAT YOU STAND FOR, AS WELL AS WHAT AGAINST," HE SAID.

TO

THE

WELL

PEOPLE TIME

YOU STAND

LEADERSHIP

SIR DAVID STRESSED THAT THE GOVERNMENT MUST DEVELOP IN DEVELOPING NEW POLICIES WHICH MET THE ASPIRATIONS OF THE COMMUNITY.

PRAGMATISM WHEN SHOW

THOSE POLICIES ARE DEBATED "WE MUST PUBLICLY AND PASSED THROUGH THE NEW COMMITTEE STRUCTURES.

"AND AT THE TOP LEVELS OF THE CIVIL SERVICE WE JUDGED BY HOW WE PERFORM PUBLICLY AS WELL AS HOW WE WORK SCENES, HE SAID.

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SIR DAVID

MUST ALL BR BEHIND THE

TO BE

ALSO PROMISED THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD TRY MORE OPEN AND TO EXPLAIN ITSELF BETTER TO MEMBERS AND TO THE MEDIA.

"THIS

EXAMINING

WILL NOT ALWAYS BE EASY BUT WE ARE NOW BUSILY HOW TO IMPROVE OUR WAYS OF OPERATING AND OF COMMUNICATING OUR POLICIES

AND OUR PROBLEMS IN THE COMING YEARS.

—

"ALL THIS MAY SOUND A DAUNTING PROSPECT BUT AS I LOOK AROUND ME NO TREPIDATION AND NO FACES, ON THESE BENCHES I SEE NO GLOOMY UNCERTAINTY, HE SAID.

"I

GOVERNMENT SIR DAVID ALSO STRESSED THAT CIVIL SERVANTS ON THE

SHELTERING IN THE BUNKER BENCHES DID NOT "FEEL LIKE LAME DUCKS, WAITING FOR THE SUN TO GO DOWN" AS SOME LEGCO MEMBERS SUGGESTED.

"ON THE CONTRARY, WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD AHEAD, HE SAID.

Th

TO THE CHALLENGES

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WOULD HAVE

HE ADDED.

A

SLOGAN

"IF WE WERE A GOVERNMENT PARTY WE BELIEVE WE PRETTY GOOD MANIFESTO TO TAKE TO THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG,

SIR DAVID SAID THE GOVERNMENT MIGHT CAMPAIGN UNDER THE "VOTE FOR THE GOVERNMENT THAT DELIVERS THE GOODS".

/HE POINTED