VIETNAMESE REFUGEES
12. YOU MENTIONED OUR RECENT DECISION TO TAKE 500 PLUS VIETNAMESE REFUGEES FROM HONG KONG. YOU HOPED THE CANADIANS COULD HELP A PIT MORE AND THUS ENCOURAGE OTHERS. MR CLARK SAID THAT A QUARTER OF THEIR INTAKE OF 4000 REFUGEES LAST YEAR HAD COME FROMHONG KONG. THAT PROPORTION WOULD PROBABLY PREVAIL NEXT YEAR, BUT HE DID NOT KNOW WHETHER THE OVERALL TOTAL WOULD BE MAINTAINED. IT MIGHT DROP TO 3,000. THE NUMBER FROM HONG KONG MIGHT THUS RE BETWEEN 700 AND
1,000.
BILATERAL POINTS
(A) MR CLARK MENTIONED THE PROBLEM OF UK PENSIONERS IN CANADA AND YOU BRIEFLY REAFFIRMED OUR POSITION.
(R) INVESTMENT CANADA. WH SMITH AND LONGMANS. YOU WELCOMED THE DECISION ON W H SMITH AND HOPED THE PATTERN WOULD BE MAINTAINED FOP LONGMANS. MR CLARK UNDERTOOK TO LET US KNOW AS SOON AS THEY HAD A POSITION. PUBLISHING WAS AN UNUSUALLY SESITIVE AREA. (MR MCMURTRY WAS AFTERWARDS SYMPATHETIC TO LONGMAN'S CASE) (C) SEALS
MR CLARK SAID THE SEALING PROBLEM WAS VERY RTOUGH
AND HE
FEARED GREENPEACE WERE PLANNING TO EXTEND THEIR CAMPAIGN OF OPPOSITION INTO OTHER FURS. YOU AGREED THAT THIS COLD BECOME VERY DIFFICULT, GIVEN PUBLIC ATTITUDES.
(D) EXPO 36. MCM URTRY HOPED MRS THATCHER COULD ATTEND THE
BRITISH NATIONAL DAY.
DAY
STANDARD PALACE NAD SAD
FID UND MCAD SEAD Sov D
HKD
3
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