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2 Jecones widespread and unmistakable between now and 1987. The 3 influence of the newly-formed. Hong Kong Link, which last month

4 published its call for early direct elections in "Hong Kong

5 Towards the Future", will we believe be secondary to pressure

from within Hong Kong itself.

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7: 3.

The above assessment applies generally to the relatively 8 Large group of MPs, both inside the Ango-Hong Kong Parliamentary 9 Group and out, who have visited Hong Kong in recent years and who 10 have developed an interest in Hong Kong largely through the

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progress of the negotiations.

But there is, within the

12 Anglo-Hong Kong Group, a very small number of MPs, mainly on the 13 Left, who take a doctrinaire view of the need for early direct

elections in Hong Kong and who will attack the 1987 review as

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15 woefully inadequate if it proposes anything Less than these. 16 These MPs include Messrs Canavan, Parry,

Freeson, Gould and Bray.

17! This group does not carry weight with other Members on Hong Kong 18 issues.

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25 FUTURE OF HONG KONG

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