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YOUR TELNO 1454 MARTIN LEE'S CALL ON LORD GLENARTHUR
I AGREE GENERALLY WITH YOUR PROPOSED TACTICS IN PARA 2 OF TUR. BUT IT IS AS WELL TO BEAR IN MIND THAT ON THE ISSUE OF THE BASIC LAW WE ARE NOT IN CONFRONTATION WITH MARTIN LEE IN THE SAME WAY AS DURING THE 1987 REVIEW. OUR AIMS ON THE BASIC LAW ARE NOT DIAMET- RICALLY OPPOSED, EVEN IF OUR METHODS DIFFER. I THEREFORE SUGGEST THAT LORD GLENARTHUR SHOULD SHOW AN INTEREST IN THE POINTS LEE IS MAKING BY ADVISING HIM THAT THE BEST TACTICAL APPROACH IN TRYING TO MAKE CHANGES TO THE DRAFT BASIC LAW IS:
A)
TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE GOOD POINTS IN THE DRAFT:
B)
TO BE SELECTIVE IN HIS CRITICISMS: AND
C)
TO PUT FORWARD REASONABLE ALTERNATIVE VERSIONS THAT DO NOT INVOLVE MAJOR REWRITING.
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ONE POINT ON WHICH MR LEE MAY SEEK REASSURANCE IS WHAT ACTION
ARE HMG WILL TAKE ON ARTICLES IN THE DRAFT BL WHICH IT CONSIDERS
THE CONTRARY TO, OR AT LEAST NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SPIRIT OF, JD. THIS POINT WAS OF COURSE COVERED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE IN HIS PRESS CONFERENCE IN HONG KONG ON 31 MAY.
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