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very charitable way of describing the whole situation 1s to say

that the blind had been leading the blind.

Sir, in these circumstances,

can our people be

blamed for suspecting that these two surveys had been conducted

for and on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong with the sole

object of ensuring that the results would not justify the

introduction of direct elections in 1988? Can our people be

blamed in tying these two surveys to the Green Paper

and taking

Chin a

to the

into account the very strong objections from

introduction of direct elections in 1988, and conclude that

this political review is nothing but a fraud.

Sir, this Administration owes much to our people to

assure them that it has not been party to any dishonest scheme

in deceiving them and that it can and will come to a just

decision which takes fully into account the wishes of Our

people.

For these

reasons, I

who have spoken out on the 2

surveys

share the view of the experts

in urging this

Administration to totally reject A GB McNair's findings to

Questionnaire in relation to the

Sections F3 and F5 of the

issue of whether direct

introduced in 1988.

elections

should or should not be