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9. At discretion, you may explain the Parliamentary timetable and related problems to trusted advisers, and should in any case discourage them strongly from putting forward extreme demands into which they might become locked. That would be damaging not only for the Government but for the other

Territories themselves.

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE

LONDON SWI

21 July 1981

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