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THE DEMAND WOULD NOT (NOT) PE MET. THE SAME PAPER PEPOPTED THAT "
THE LATEST OVERSEAS EDITION OF ''OUTLOOK'T CARRIED A POUNDUP
OF LU'S VISIT, BUT HAD ONITTED **SENSITIVE REMAPYS" ON THK
PEOPLE RULING HK AND ON PRESS FREEDOM. SPEAKING ON TV, PAP
ASSOCIATION CHAIRMAN DEN'S CHANG CALLED ON LU TO INFORM BLCC MEITEPS
OF HOW HE WOULD REPOPT THE VIEWS HE HAD COLLECTED TO THE PLDC.
3. NATIONALITY: ACCORDING TO THE LONDON CORRESPONDENT OF ORIENTAL
DAILY ON 8 FEBRUARY, THE HOME OFFICE HAD AGREED TO AMEND THE IPAFT
NATIONALITY OPDEP TO ALLOW APOUND 400 EX-SERVICEMEN TO OPTAIN FULL
EPITISH CITIZENSHIP. THE REQUEST FOR THE SAME TO PE GRANTED TO THE 10,000 ETHNIC MINORITIES WOULD BE PEJECTED. THE HOME OFFICE SOURCES
WERE QUOTED AS SAYING THAT HMG WOUL" TAKE STEPS TO ENSURE THAT
BONAFIDE HK TRAVELLERS COULD VISIT THE UK WITHOUT THE NEED TO CAPPY
EXTRA CERTIFICATES OF PROOF. ON ? FESPUAPY THE SAME PAPER QUOTES
SOURCES AS SAYING THAT HMG WOULD ALLOW PNO PASSPORT HOLDERS TO STAY
FREELY IN THE UK FOR UP TO SIX MONTHS. THE HK STANDARD RAN A
SIMILAR FRONT PAGE STORY ON 8 FEPPUAPY. THE RETURN OF THE HK
DELEGATION FROM LONDON WAS WIDELY REPOPTED. CARTER SAID THAT THEPE
HAD BEEN USEFUL DISCUSSIONS AND THAT THE BRITISH OFFICIALS HAD
PROMISED TO STUDY THE UMELCO REQUESTS, BUT HE DECLINED TO GIVE
DETAILS. VAPIOUS PAPERS REPOPTED THAT THE GOVERNOR WOULD MEE SIP
GEOFFREY HOWE AND IR. RENTON DURING HIS VISIT TO LONDON, TO
DISCUSS NATIONALITY, TRADE AND THE JLG. SOME PAPERS SAID THAT THESE
ISSUES HAD COME UP IN HIS MEETING WITH SIR PERCY CRADOCK. ON 5
FEBRUARY, K SITAL OF THE COUNCIL OF HK INDIAN ASSOCIATIONS PEFEFFET
TO THE CONSERVATIVE CENTRAL OFFICE PAPER AND ACCUSED HMG OF
DELIBERATELY MISLEADING WPS DY FAILING TO MENTION THE UNANIMOUS
LEGCO SUPPORT FOR THE THREE PEQUESTS” HE CONDEMNED THE
ATTITUDE OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY AND CAID THAT WHILE SENI OF
OFFICIALS SYMPATHISED WITH THE MINORITIES, THEY WERE UNWILLING TO
DO MUCH ABOUT IT.
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4. POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT: INTEPVIEWED BY SING PAO, MARTIN LEE SAID THAT THEPE WAS NO NEED FOR CHINA TO SUPPRESS HK PEOPLE'S
WISHES FOP DEMOCRACY AND FOP A HIGH DEGREE OF AUTONOMY IF SUCH WISHES DID NOT (MOT) CONTRAVENE THE JOINT DECLARATION. HE SAID THAT
AS CHINESE LEADERS DID NOT (NOT) HAVE A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF HONG
KONG, IT WOULD ONLY MAKE THINGS WORSE IF THEY WERE TO MAYE ALL
DECISIONS FOR HK. IT WOULD TE MOPE APPPOFF LATE TO ALLOW HY PEOPLE
TO PO THE JOP AS THEY WEPE HOPE FAMILIAP WITH HY AFFAIPS. LEE SAIT
THAT THE UMELCO PANEL ON CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIPS AGREED THAT THE
1367 PEVIEW SHOULD BE A THOPOUCH ONE. THE HYG WOULD DE ACKED TO
INCLUDE THE PANEL'S VIEWS IN THE GREEN PAPER, FAILING WHICH THE
PANEL WOULD PUTLISH THE IF OWN PROPOSALS. MAFIA TAY HAS FEPORTED AS
SAYING THAT DIFFICULTIES IN CONVERGENCE OF THE POLITICAL SYSTE'S
WOULD TE PEDUCED IF HY PEOPLE COULT TEACH A CONCENSUS ON
POLICIAL REFORMS FOR THE REFERENCE OF THE BRITISH AND CHINESE
GOVERNMENTS. DESMOND LEE TOLD ECONOMIC JOURNAL THAT THE SAR
LEGISLATUPE SHOULD HAVE THE POWER TO NOMINATE, DISMISS AND IMPEACH
THE CHEIF [XECUTIVE. DOPOTHY LIU SAID THAT SOME IMPORTANT TERMS
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