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VIET-FORNIA - SEPT 12, 1978 !!! The Refugees Are All Around Us - Did We Really Fight A WAR For This ? (page B4 - "The REGISTER" - Orange County, California) |
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U.S. To Ask Some 70 Nations To
Double Quotas On Refugees (Mon. July 16, 1979 - "The REGISTER" - Orange County, California) |
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is going to next weekend's international refugee conference in Geneva with hope of persuading other nations to follow President Carter's example and double their quotas of homeless Indochinese. ....
The United States was taking in 7,000 refugees a month - two of every three refugees fleeing from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Carter's decision to double that quota will bring 168,000 refugees a year to the United States. Now, the idea is to persuade other countries to do as much, doubling their quotas from 40,000 to 80,000. The "boat people" who make it to land - an estimated 20 to 50 percent drown - are packed in overcrowded camps in Malaysia, Thailand, and Hong Kong. .... |
South Vietnamese Marines
"the humiliated remnants of a routed army" throng Pioneer Commander (page 10-11 - "TIME MAGAZINE" - APRIL 14, 1975) |
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Just before the Communists took Danang, there was looting, pillaging, murder and madness. In their panic to get away, soldiers elbowed past women and children to board the planes and boats that managed to evacuate 90,000 people from Danang in the hours before the city fell to the Communists. In some cases civilian refugees were killed by troops stampeding away from the enemy.
"True enough," said one Army tactician, "the Vietnamese soldiers fight with their families along, but they even deserted their families to fight their way aboard a plane or a boat." On board the American ship Pioneer Commander, sent to Danang to take refugees to Cam Ranh, 300 miles to the south, passengers were shot or pushed overboard by soldiers trying to make room for themselves. .... |
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