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A SIMILAR SERIOUSLY UNSETTLING EFFECT AT THIS CRUCIAL MOMENT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SAILING SEASON TO THE DISASTROUS REMARKS BY CONGRESSMAN DORNAN LAST YEAR. AS ONE VILLAGER PUT IT ''YOU CANNOT TELL US THAT THE NUMBER TWO IN THE US POLITBURO IS STUPID OR UNINFORMED AS TO US POLICY''. AT LEAST A FAVOURABLE FACTOR SO FAR HAS BEEN THE RELATIVE ABSENCE OF THE USUAL TYPHOONS ACROSS THE CENTRAL AREA.
3 FROM ALL MY CONTACTS HOWEVER IT IS CLEAR THAT THE VIETNAMESE GOVERNMENT ARE EXTREMELY SENSITIVE TO THE DEPARTURE RATE (THE EFFECT ON VIETNAM'S INTERNATIONAL IMAGE AND IN THE US DURING THE BUILD UP TO NORMALISATION). ON THE OTHER HAND THEY ARE COMPARTIVELY RELAXED OVER ARGUMENTS ABOUT THE NEED TO KEEP UP THE RATE OF VOLUNTARY RETURNS. I THINK WE SHOULD CONSIDER POSSIBLE WAYS OF EXPLOITING THIS TO MAXIMUM EFFECT IF WE ARE FACED WITH RENEWED DEPARTURES.
WILLIAMS
YYYY
DISTRIBUTION
127
MAIN
121
.VIETNAMESE MIGRANTS IN HK
ECFAD/ODA//HD
SEAD
PS
LEGAL ADVISERS
PS/MRS CHALKER
PUSD
INFO D
ECD (E)
FINANCE D
FED
HKD
NAD
NEWS D
RMD
UND
EMAD/ODA
PS/LORD CAITHNESS
PS/MR LENNOX-BOYD
PS/PUS
SIR J COLES
MR AINSCOW
MR BONE
MR MUIR
MR BURNS
MR FREEMAN
MR KERBY
MR MANNING
EAPD/ODA
ADDITIONAL
2
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