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8. NATIONALITY: (FURTHER TO MY TELNO 267), A BLLC MEMBER WRITING IN THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL REVIEWED SUCCESSIVE NATIONALITY ACTS. HE BELIEVED THAT HK PEOPLE SHOULD NOT PIN HIGHER HOPES ON THE LABOUR PARTY: BOTH LABOUR AND TORY PARTIES SOUGHT TO BAR OUTSIDERS. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HK AND THE FALKLANDS OR GIBRALTAR WAS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE INVOLVED AND THE COLOUR OF THEIR SKIN. THE ONLY POSITIVE ELEMENT IN THE RECENT DEBATE WAS THAT HK PEOPLE COULD SEE CLEARLY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HK AND BRITAIN. HE CALLED ON HK PEOPLE TO CONTINUE TO BUILD HK AS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE WERE PROUD TO LIVE. SING PAO BELIEVED THERE WAS A REASONABLE HOPE THAT THE HKG DELEGATION TO LONDON WOULD ACHIEVE RESULTS ON THE REQUEST FOR THE RIGHT OF ENTRY. WAH KIU YAT PO HOPED THE TEAM WOULD ACCOMPLISH THE JOB IT SET OUT TO DO: AND THE EXPRESS AND HK DAILY NEWS URGED SUPPORT FOR THE TEAM.
9. BL: THERE WAS SUPPORT FROM MINOR LEFTWING PAPERS FOR LU PING'S ASSERTION THAT THE BL SHOULD NOT (NOT) BE DRAFTED BY FOREIGN EXPERTS. THEY STRESSED PATRIOTISM, EXPERIENCE AND THE FACT THAT THE SAR WAS PART OF CHINA. TIN FUNG YAT PO SAID THAT THE SUGGESTION TO INVOLVE FOREIGN EXPERTS WAS AGAINST THE CONCEPT OF HK PEOPLE
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10. OTHERS: A FURTHER BLUEPRINT' FOR THE FUTURE POLITICAL SYSTEM BY LAW LECTURER ALBERT CHEN WAS CARRIED IN MING PAO, WHICH
THE PROPOSED A MIXTURE OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT ELECTIONS,
ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ADVISORY ASSEMBLY, AND THE CONTINUATION OF DBS AND ADVISORY COMMITTEES. THERE WAS CONTINUED CIRITICISM OF LU PING'S DEFINITION OF ACCOUNTABILITY BY A COLUMNIST IN THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL. MING PAO IN AN EDITORIAL DEFENDED ITS CHANGE OF STANCE FROM CRITICISM OF CHINA TO ONE OF MORE PRAISE AS A RATIONAL JUDGEMENT IN THE LIGHT OF CHINA'S OPENING UP.
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