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(b)

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And regarding officials:

is:

should CBF remain on EXCO, or

thee a suitable opportunity to adjust the official

IS

membership?

of LEGCO Select Committees:

Development

i s this an

area where the 1987 Green Paper might be able to go further than merely noting developments, such as by way of offering encouragement or plans for the future?

(c)

Advisory Boards and Committees: might we not go further in welcom i ng or encouraging these developments,

(b) above?

as with

I thumul SiJS will wish to be careful in appearing to push the Goremor on this perhaps he showed wite that the pupsed oftions are family cautions in terms of what and Westminister offess to envisage, and ask whether the Gor. believes the pupials

as a

some in

some in Hong Kong

are

corectly judged as bering acceptable & public spinar in HK 0

whole. It might be awkward for HKG/HMG to be put in the portion of offising to usist 4K demands for the Chinese would be alarmed if in the event we had to go further than

Mire

democracy;

ovided for in the Green Paper; and there might be advantage in stating some mure radical

Iptions to have them rejected after measmed

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-But ard'

buble debate.

they

be?

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