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Article: Stepping into the unknown in Hong Kong: democracy advocates outline fears, resolves as '97 deadline nears. (Catholic Church and other Western institutions after China reclaims Hong Kong: includes a related article)(Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- October 4, 1996
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HONG KONG - "Pray for us," said lawyer Andrew K.F. Cheng in his air conditioned, ninth floor office in Hong Kong's downtown Central district. And when you come back, if I am in prison, please come to visit me."
That bleak remark was in stark contrast to the daily bustle outside on Li Yuen and Peddar streets in the tropical clime of crowded, commercial, colorful Hong Kong, where workers jammed the humid lunchtime streets and carried little terry cloth pieces to mop their brows and necks, and where life seemed concentrated on just getting through the day.
Cheng, who has photographs of his wife and two young daughters pinned to the wall behind his desk, ...