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17.

Acceptance of the need to set a deadline is

probably linked to the community's refusal to be deterred by

suggestions of CPG retaliation in the event of a breakdown

in Sino-UK talks on constitutional issues:

PBR Poll, 7/8 October

(a) 60 per cent were not worried about a lack of

CPG economic

collapsed.

cooperation if the Peking talks

(b) 78 per cent were not worried about a CPG

takeover of the

territory before 1997 if the

Peking talks collapsed.

THE DESIRE FOR INVOLVEMENT

18.

Opinion polls

demonstrate considerable

community

nervousness about its

lack of involvement in negotiations

with the CPG:

HKU Poll, 11 September

(a) 70 per cent opposed a secret agreement.