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South China

Sunday Morning Post

AA13 HKD

December 17, 1992

Mr Douglas Hurd Secretary for State

Foreign & Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH

Dear Mr Hurd

Thank you for your letter of December 9, and I am delighted you have agreed to my interview request.

I see this will take place at a particularly appropriate time, coinciding with the introduction of legislation on the 1995 elections to the Legislative Council.

However, since a written interview lacks the personal touches and immediacy so effective in getting any message. across, can I ask if it can instead be a face to face interview, with a written list of questions/subject areas submitted in advance, and a photographer also present?

I would attach great importance to such an interview and, as measure of this, be inclined to send a reporter over to London especially for it.

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Hoping this is possible.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Lynch EDITOR

PL/jl

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