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RESTRICTED COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE
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MDHIAN 6092
RESTRICTED
COMMERCIAL IN CONFIDENCE
FM DTI
HKA 182/3
TO IMMEDIATE BTC HONG KONG
TELNO CREDA 85
OF 09173OZ MARCH 92
FROM HALL, PEP
Capies to Burns
Rickelts
Cox
LANTAU FIXED CROSSING
SIR GORDON MANZIE (ANGLO-JAPANESE CONSORTIUM) TELLS ME THAT HE AND A LARGE AJC PARTY WILL ARRIVE IN HONG KONG ON 11 MARCH FOR FURTHER TECHNICAL DISCUSSIONS WITH THE HONG KONG AUTHORITIES ON 13 AND 14 MARCH. THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN A LARGE NUMBER OF TECHNICAL QUESTIONS, MOST OF WHICH MANZIE CHARACTERISES AS QUOTE CLARIFICATIONS UNQUOTE. THE AJC UNDERSTAND THAT SIMILAR SESSIONS ARE BEING HELD WITH THE KOREAN AND HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL GROUPINGS. ACCORDING TO MANZIE, THE ALL JAPANESE CONSORTIUM ARE NOW EFFECTIVELY OUT OF THE RUNNING. HE HAD EARLIER BEEN TOLD THAT THE KOREANS HAD ALSO BEEN EFFECTIVELY DROPPED, BUT THIS NOW APPEARS UNTRUE.
2. MANZIE SAID THAT DISCUSSIONS IN HONG KONG LAST WEEK ABOUT THE OUTSTANDING RESERVATIONS LEFT OVER FROM THE AJC'S ORIGINAL BID HAVE GONE WELL. INDEED IN ONE (UNSPECIFIED) THE HONG KONG AUTHORITIES HAD ACCEPTED THE VALIDITY OF THE AJC'S ARGUMENT, AND WERE PREPARED TO AMEND THE CONTRACT CONDITIONS ACCORDINGLY.
3.
TRAFALGAR HOUSE ARE MUCH EXERCISED ABOUT A STORY IN THE UK PUBLICATION QUOTE CONSTRUCTION NEWS UNQUOTE OF
5 MARCH, WHICH QUOTED FLETCHER (TH) TO THE EFFECT THAT THE AJC HAD REVISED THEIR BID DOWNWARDS AND WERE NOW WELL PLACED TO WIN THE CONTRACT. THIS STORY, SAID MANZIE, HAD BEEN PICKED UP BY THE HONG KONG CHINESE LANGUAGE PRESS. FLETCHER HAD NOW WRITTEN TO THE EDITOR TO COMPLAIN THAT HE (FLETCHER) HAD NOT IN FACT SPOKEN AT ALL TO THE MAGAZINE, AND THAT HIS PR MAN, WHO HAD, HAD SAID NO SUCH THING. THIS HAD LED TO A FULL RETRACTION AND APOLOGY FROM THE EDITOR, WHICH HAS YET TO BE PUBLISHED. TH ARE FAXING YOU DIRECT COPIES OF THE STORY AND SUBSEQUENT
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