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- <title>
- June 26, 1989: World Notes:Refugees
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 26, 1989 Kevin Costner:The New American Hero
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 46
- World Notes
- REFUGEES
- Pulling In the Welcome Mat
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- <p> With compassion for the Vietnamese boat people nearly exhausted
- after an exodus that began in 1975, last week's Geneva conference
- on Indochinese refugees produced a unanimous vote to adopt a tough
- new policy.
- </p>
- <p> For the 50,000 asylum seekers who landed in Southeast Asia
- before governments in the region stopped guaranteeing them refugee
- status, there was good news: resettlement countries such as the
- U.S., Canada and Australia agreed to take in 55,000 more escapees.
- But for those who arrived later, the outlook was bleak. Only the
- few who can prove that they left to avoid persecution and not just
- to escape economic privation will be eligible to enter other
- countries. The rest will be encouraged and perhaps eventually
- forced to return home. But at the moment, Viet Nam is refusing to
- take them back.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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