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quiet way

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or in the PRC for that matter.

The students of

Hong Kong are very pragmatic - they look in terms of

finishing my degree quickly and then start to make money and

It is very

then it 1 have the chance to get out of here.

sad.

MR MICHAEL WELSH: Yes, it is very sad, actually, May I say

that the majority of people I think that I have spoken to,

nearly all are in favour of democracy, but step by step. I

think you would agree that your feeling is that if you don't

get it before 1997 you won't get it.

MR MARTIN LEE: Yes,

for the simple reason that can anybody

in his proper senses would know, or would say that he is

confident that although a communist government will not give

it to us when the British Government is still here, it will

somehow give it to us when the British Government is gone?

MR MICHAEL WELSH: Can I just ask you one other question with

regards to the democracy. In most countries, and in Britain,

when the vote came about, it was said that the poorest man

has the right to pick his political masters as the richest

man..

MR MARTIN LEE: Yes, indeed.

HR MICHAEL WELSH: why is that not so followed up in this

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