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question to make it easier to understand.

It is pertinent to

note, however, that in relation to these areas where AGB McNair

had decided to depart from the

actual wording of the options

contained in the summary of the Green Paper, these questions

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were nothing

as

complicated

or

technical as

option

(4) in

Section F3

question is: Why did AGB McNair think

dealt which

with

direct

elections.

The obvious

fit to make alterations

to

these less complicated questions

without at the same time

making

any

improvement to

the

most important

but

most

unsatisfactory question in the entire Questionnaire?

Further, the first option in Section F3 was "to make

no change". The second was "to conclude

to the

"to

that direct elections

The third was

element

of direct

Legislative Council are not desirable".

conclude that, in

some principle,

elections is desirable, but that it should not be introduced in

1988".

respondents were

The

therefore

opportunities

to

elections in 1988.

questions

in that it clearly suggested a particular answer.

balanced by an alternative which went the other way.

say

Each of these

"No"

the to

given

introduction

three

clear

of direct

three

was

leading

Each was not

last

When the respondents finally came

option, which was a mouthful, and expressed

convoluted

to the

fourth and

in the most

manner, the respondents really had to reach

the very