DEEP SPACE: "Sanctuary" - 10/08/93 - ACT FOUR           44.

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					MINISTER ROZAHN
			Yes.
				(to Haneek)
			I was sent here to tell you that the 
			Ministers --
				(a nod to Sorad)
			-- in accord with the Vedek Assembly -- 
			have decided to deny the Skrreeans' 
			request.

	Haneek stiffens... she wasn't expecting this... she can't 
	take her eyes off Minister Rozahn...

					MINISTER ROZAHN
				(to Haneek; 
				sympathetically)
			I'm sorry.

	Haneek feels the desperation seeping into her, starting to 
	overwhelm everything else...

					VEDEK SORAD
			Bajor simply cannot absorb three 
			million refugees at this time...

					MINISTER ROZAHN
			After what the Cardassians did to 
			our planet, we can barely take care 
			of our own.

					HANEEK
			But no one is asking you to take 
			care of us... !

					VEDEK SORAD
				(sympathetic)
			This decision is not based strictly 
			on Bajoran self-interest.  Such a 
			huge increase in population would 
			prove to be tragic to your people as 
			well as ours.

					HANEEK
			But Bajor has more than enough room 
			for us.  The plains of the northwest 
			peninsula are practically uninhabited.  
			The land's ideal for farming.

					MINISTER ROZAHN
			It used to be... before the 
			Cardassians got their hands on it.