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moment than further

negotiations. with Peking.

I mean, -it- -is- -very- -important- -that- this

administration in Hong Kong doesn't start falling

apart and,

and, I think, there are dangers that it

could faced with the political

future.

answer to the

And, I think, one of David Wilson's

problems is that he doesn't have a great deal

So that that, I

of

administrative

experience.

think, will be his first task.

His second task, I think, will be to look at how

Hong Kong's Own

constitutional

development

can

proceed; how that can be the wishes of the Hong

Kong people in terms of how the Legislative and

Executive Councils develop and isn't simply going

to be Hong Kong doing what Chinese, through their

own basic law, want to happen.

DAVID LEY:

Now you say that he may

be

lacking in

administrative experience, yet he served in Hong

Kong

as a

British diplomat in 1960 to '63 and