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FEBRUARY COVERED 810 RESPONDENCE BY PHONE. 60 PERCENT WERE AGAINST CHINA'S SUGGESTION THAT THE GOVERNOR SHOULD WITHDRAW HIS PROPOSALS PRIOR TO THE RESUMPTION OF TALKS. 56 PERCENT AGREED THE PACKAGE SHOULD BE TABLED TO LEGCO BEFORE NEGOTIATIONS TOOK PLACE BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES. 80 PERCENT INDICATED THAT LEGCO MEMBERS, IN SCRUTINISING THE REFORM PROPOSALS, SHOULD TAKE THE CHINESE ATTITUDE INTO ACCOUNT. ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE GOVERNOR THE OVERALL RATING WAS 6.06 OUT OF 10: AREAS THEY WERE MOST SATISFIED WITH WERE PROMOTION OF DEMOCRACY (35.2 PERCENT) AND WORK IN RELATIONS TO PEOPLE'S LIVELIHOOD (28.3 PERCENT): THE AREA THEY WERE MOST DISSATISFIED WITH WAS THE HANDLING OF SINO-HONG KONG RELATIONS.
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A SURVEY BY THE ORIENTAL DAILY NEWS AND THE HONG KONG ECONOMIC TIMES ON PERFORMANCE BY LEGISLATORS (12.2) FOUND THE RESPONDENTS WERE MOST SATISFIED WITH ELSIE TU FOLLOWED IN SEQUENCE BY EMILY LAU, LAU CHIN-SHEK, CHEUNG MAN-KWONG AND MARTIN LEE. AMONG THE POLITICAL GROUPS, THE RESPONDENTS WERE MOST SATISFIED WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF UDHK FOLLOWED BY CRC AND MEETING POINT.
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A CNTA SURVEY (17. 2) CONDUCTED IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR SHOWED AN INCREASE IN THE CONCERN BY RESPONDENTS ON HONG KONG'S FUTURE. THE SURVEY INTERVIEWED ABOUT 1,600 PEOPLE BY TELEPHONE AND 42 PERCENT INDICATED HONG KONG'S FUTURE WAS THEIR MAJOR CONCERN, COMPARED WITH 26 PERCENT IN THE LAST SURVEY IN SEPTEMBER 1992. OTHER MATTERS OF PUBLIC CONCERN WERE HOUSING AND ECONOMIC ISSUES.
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A HONG KONG STANDARD SURVEY (17.2) FOUND 38 PERCENT OF THE 460 RESPONDENTS SAID LEGISLATORS SHOULD SUPPORT THE GOVERNOR'S BLUEPRINT, WHILE 37 PERCENT SAID IT SHOULD BE AMENDED AND 21 PERCENT SAID LEGISLATORS SHOULD VOTE AGAINST IT. IT WAS NOTED THE STRONGEST SUPPORT CAME FROM THOSE IN THE 18-24 AGE GROUP, AMONG WHOM 46 PERCENT SAID LEGISLATORS SHOULD VOTE FOR THE PACKAGE, 13 PERCENT SAID VOTE AGAINST AND 39 PERCENT SAID AMEND. IT WAS NOTED THE GOVERNOR'S APPROVAL RATE JUMPED FROM 36 PERCENT IN DECEMBER 1992 TO 65 PERCENT IN FEBRUARY AND HIS DISAPPROVAL DROPPED FROM 29 PERCENT TO 22 PERCENT. THE POPULARITY OF CRC ALAN LEE DROPPED (32 PERCENT WERE SATISFIED WITH MR LEE'S PERFORMANCE AND 47 PERCENT WERE DISSATISFIED). THE RATE OF UDHK MARTIN LEE HAD ALSO DROPPED FROM 63 PERCENT IN DECEMBER 1992 TO 56 PERCENT.
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25. THE EXPRESS AND HONG KONG ECONOMIC JOURNAL (17.2) NOTED
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