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Many local Labour Parties don't even know yet that they may be entitled to an extra woman delegate to Labour Party conference. The CLPD Women's Action Committee is circulating this model resolution: 'THIS conference deplores the action of the National Executive Committee in these last few weeks, in once more obstructing the constitutional right of CLPs to send an extra woman delegate to this Annual Conference.

Conference notes that this obstruction is inconsistent with the assurance given by the National Agent last year that every attempt would be made to make absolutely sure that the provisions of the Constitution would be met and that they are reasonable in order to see that constituencies do get the additional women delegates to Conference' Conference regrets the National Executive's failure to act on the advice of its own officers and to clarify the criteria for the election of extra women delegates. Failure to do so will only result in fewer women delegates to a conference which is overwhelmingly male-dominated and which therefore projects an image to the public of being primarily concerned with the interests of men and of failing to project the concern of the majority of the electorate, women.

Conference instructs the Nationel Executive Committee to act promptly on the advice of Party officers and last year's Conference and to agree the constitutional safeguard already proposed by the National Executive Committée's office"

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Britain and China have been discussing the future of Hong Kong for over a year. The Chinese government has declared its intention to take complete control of nine-tenths of Hong Kong's territory when the lease on which it is held by Britain expires in 1997. By the time the third round of talks began in Peking this week, the Hong Kong dollar had lost one-third of the OVER 350 people have so far been charged or sentenced under Britain's 'informer system" in Northern Ireland. Hilda MacThomas, a writer for An Phoblacht/Republican News tells the story of the latest "supergrass" ', Robert Lean. The article international value it had a year ago Hong Kong is still a British September 1983 P: Zones.

On the political front, the Constitution has been amended to create Special Administrative Regions (SARs). Into this category the Chinese government has placed Hong Kong as well as neighbouring Portugueseadministered Macao, and Taiwan. These regions have, according to the Constitution, a high degree of autonomy.

About Hong Kong China says:

1). Chinese sovereignty over Hong Kong is not for negotiaThe harsh suppression of the Chinese Democratic Movement has shattered illusions that Deng's regime is any improvement on the Gang of Four.

Peking would have grave problems in assimilating these six million indifferent or hostile people to its political rule, especially if the local economy takes a nosedive. For all these reasons Peking adopted its position of "one nation, two systems" and "self-rule for Hong Kong"

British negotiators can threat-

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