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GOVT CIRCLES AND WERE CERTAINLY ENCOURAGED TO ACCEPT NCNAS

INVITATION. AFTER YOUNG BUSINESSMEN WHO VISITED BEIJING LAST SPRING,

HKONG OBSERVERS IS PROBABLY MOST REPRESENTATIVE (THOUGH NOT/NOT

NECESSARILY IN DEMOCRATIC TERMS SINCE THEY REPRESENT ONLY THEMSELVES)

OF HKONGS MIDDLE CLASS WHICH NO/NO DOUBT CHINA WOULD LIKE TO ATTRACT

UNTIL 1997 IF NOT/NOT AFTER.BUT THEY ARE MOBILE AS MOST HAVE UNIV

DEGREES FROM ABROAD AND SOMETIMES ARE FOREIGN CITIZENS.GROUP

INCLUDES FRANK CHING, RESPECTED FORMER JOURNALIST AT ASIAN WALL

STREET JOURNAL, JOSEPH CHENG,CHINESE UNIV PROFESSOR PRESENTLY ON

ONE-YEAR TERM IN AUSTRALIA.CHMN OF GROUP, CHRISTINE LOH, WILL NOT/NOT

ACCOMPANY GROUP BUT DID VISIT LDN RECENTLY ON BEHALF OF HKONG

OBSERVERS WITH HKONG GOVT BLESSING.

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