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\cflM) AW _gn and Commonwealth Secretary's '84) about arrangements to deal with the possibility that President Amin may pass through London in transit to Hew York to attend the U.lf. General Assembly later this month and your Private Secretary's letter of 30th August in response to this. I agree that even a brief stop while in transit could arou; protest and affront Parliamentary and public feeling, though not on anything like the scale which would have met his coming to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the Silver Jubilee celebrations. My personal direction under the Immigration Act 197^> that he should be excluded from the United Kingdom, remains in force. The elaborate contingency plans we made to counter his coming In June were aimed at countering a deliberate attempt to force or bluff his way into the country to attend the C.H.G.K., and to resist departure. I doubt whether the present contingency requires measures on that scale; some of those measures would in any event be irrelevant to it. But I agree that adequate precautions should be taken to prevent, so far as possible, his landing and to control him until he leaves on his onward (or return) flight. I suggest, therefore, that officials in the Departments concerned should be instructed to prepare revised arrangements. Two practical problems have been identified In this situation if the medi.