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DSR 11C

Implications for HMG: Aggravated problems of confidence

in transitional period. Major immigration pressures.

Difficult to negotiate adequate guarantees for population.

j) of above, (b), (c) and (d) have less to offer Chinese,

(d)

and (f), and seen only as short transitional

arrangements.

(e)(h) or (i) offer basis of long-term

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