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- <text id=89TT3239>
- <title>
- Dec. 11, 1989: World Notes:Hong Kong
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 11, 1989 Building A New World
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 73
- World Notes
- HONG KONG
- Goodbye, and Here's $620
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Long dreaded and long delayed, the forced repatriation of
- Hong Kong's 44,217 Vietnamese boat people is about to begin. The
- U.S. opposes the new policy on humanitarian grounds, at least
- until conditions in Viet Nam change for the better. But the
- British government, convinced that less stringent policies will
- not stop the flow of illegal immigrants to the crown colony, is
- determined to go ahead. Under the plan, the British and Hong
- Kong governments will reportedly provide about $620 in cash for
- each deportee, or a total of $27 million if all who are
- currently in the colony are sent home.
- </p>
- <p> For those subject to forced repatriation, the plan will
- seek to set up a monitoring system to ensure that they are not
- punished by the Vietnamese government. But that was small
- comfort for one group of boat people in Hong Kong, who hung from
- their windows a banner reading, WE WOULD RATHER DIE HERE THAN
- GO BACK TO VIET NAM.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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