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9.

We

believe

that an announcement

on 20 October

would allow us just sufficient time to have the amendment

enacted by December 1993 (assuming of course a reasonably

smooth passage in LegCo). If we are to go down this route,

we would need to brief the BEC chairman, on a confidential

one or two days before 20 October so as to bring him

basis,

on side.

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