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services to the population. We will support social infra- structure developments which provide access to basic needs for more vulnerable groups and correct obvious deficiencies such as weaknesses in public health. Otherwise we will give greater priority to productive investments which will help the rescurce base and human potential."

lebuy

22 November 1978 No Clohe

R G PETTITT

PTD (G 51A/G)

This seems basically helpful (though I am disapported that A Pettitt, who is after all part of 03m, did not clear his proposals with the Oom specialists). I hope however that we can avoid the jargon of the last two sentences, and I would like to know the exact significance of the terms "financial settlement" and "independence settlement" (ave they different things, or just a alternative ways of referring to what we have hitherto known as the golden handshake? Can you please try to clear this with the people referred to in para

3?

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W. 4.27.

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