U.S. WILL ADMIT MORE 'BOAT PEOPLE,' STATE DEPT. SAYS

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• Document Release Date: May 18, 2004
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• Publication Date: June 16, 1978
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-U.S. Will Admit
More `Boat People,'
State Dept. Says
Associated Press
Up to 12,500 "boat people" still liv-
ing on the vessels they used to flee
Vietnam will, be admitted to the
United States over the next year
along with another 12,500 Indochinese
refugees, the State Department said
yesterday.
Another 12,000 East Europeans,
most of them Soviet Jews and ethnic
Armenians, will be admitted, also
through the use of Attorney General
Griffin B. Bell's emergency "parole
authority."
The overall refugee total of 37,500
includes 500 South Americans, prin-
cipally from Argentina, Chile and
Uruguay. A number of them are con-
sidered political dissidents.
There are more than 100,000 refu-
gees in Southeast Asia. Australia,
France, Canada and other countries
lave taken in several thousand. At
the same time, Vietnamese are flee.
%g their country at the rate of 5,000
to 6,000 a month.
In the past three years the United
States has admitted 164,000 Indochin-
ese refugees, at an estimated $550
million cost. An additional 8,000 will
teach this country by September.
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