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WORLD, Page 46World NotesREFUGEESPulling In the Welcome Mat
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.
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.