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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, August 22, 1977

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By we Jam Oatis associated press sixty six were allowed to Settle in Israel and it nut in the United but others have been turned away they arc the boat More than refugees who have fled cum mums Vietnam in Small Prince Sadruddin Aga High commissioner for says the Story of these people is a modern Day sometimes Assum ing tragic the commissioner appealed to governments to take the refugees noting the likelihood that some were lost at sea after passing ships refused to let them aboard for fear of being forbidden to discharge them at ports of that Fate confronted 66 vietnamese in a founder ing boat in the South China sea this As ships of several nations refused to pick them but an israeli freighter did and prime minister Man alter Tegen arranged for them to be flown to Israel and Given settlement rights like those granted vietnamese who dislike communism cannot escape it by skipping across the be cause opposite Vietnam Border arc Laos and All so they leave by More and More have been doing so since South Vietnam fell to communist forces in according to since the Start of per sons have fled Vietnam by those leaving the first half of this year outnumbered those leaving in All of to there were this May and this against last the top month for of the nearly 450 were still aboard vessels at the end of june at various places around the South China not allowed to a portuguese enclave in Mainland turned away or in others were allowed to stay wherever they made Shore five out of 10 in 13 in saudi Arabia and 15fi in Many were flown on to other countries that accepted them for settlement to 201 to Canada and to the United which has permanently resettled some refugees who left by All Means of transportation since the fall of South but More than boat people arc still wailing in Camps in various countries for governments to allow them to remain in the last years of revolution in people have fled Laos and cambo Dia by sea or More than Are in Camps in Thailand awaiting permission to resettle president Carter is agreed in principle to let into the United slates on top of the it has Al ready baby five Days old among 137 refugees on ship not allowed to land in l8t 1977 the stars and stripes Page 15  
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