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detailed account of reactions in Hong Kong to the report's publication,

there seems a reasonable hope that the controversy will now die down.

4.

Once the final report of the Committee of Inquiry is

available, we may need to consider whether there are any aspects of

the case that require further action from us. On the face ot it,

though the dissident teachers were far from blameless, the Education

Department seem to have shown a certain lack of sensitivity in the way

they handled the case. But there is no point in raking over the

embers at this stage.

We should concentrate on doing all we can to

encourage both sides to cooperate in making the compromise proposed

by the Committee work.

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