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(b) Vote

registration

for the LegCo elections was

'an unimpressive 50 percent. The turn-out rate

was even more dismal.

(c)

In consequence,

very

meagre

credibility.

a referendum would attract a

participation

and

lack

11.

He said that, a primary focus for the CPG attack

would be the replacement airport:

(a) The CPG had made its position plain, and no

further concessions were possible.

(b)

Lu's reference

to a ban on using CPG airspace

should be read as a threat to bar all traffic

at Chek Lap Kok after 1997.

(c) Hence, the business community would be led to

believe that the airport would never have any

commercial value.

(d) In addition, the general public would be led

believe that continued work on the ACP

would be a complete waste of taxpayers' money.

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