VIETNAM DEMANDS CHINESE ACCEPT 4,000 REFUGEES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R000600060039-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 18, 2004
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: August 1, 1978
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEW YORK TIMES
THE NEW YORK TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1978
Vietnam Demands Chinese
Accept 4,000 Refugees
BANGKOK, Thailand, July 31 (AP) -
Vietnam demanded today that China ac-
cept more than 4,000 ethnic Chinese
camped on the border in two northern
Vietnamese provinces.
China closed the border two weeks ago.
World News Briefs
after some 150,000 ethnic Chinese had flea ers) - Fighting between Cambodia and
from Vietnam because of the confiscation Vietnam in the last two weeks has been
of their businesses and property and anti- the heaviest in their border war for some
Chinese discrimination. months, Western diplomatic sources said
The Chinese Government announced here today. They said that the fighting
July 12 that only Chinese with papers was most intense in the area north of the
issued by the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi Parrot's Beak, Cambodian territory that
and Vietnamese exit visas would be al- thrusts into southern Vietnam.
lowed to cross the border. The Hanoi
radio said that the 4,000 were living in
temporary huts and were short of food
and water. It said that 400 were ill and
that one person had died.
BANGKOK, Thailand, July 31 (Reut-
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