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...last week, they did not look much different from other passengers. The men wore business suits; the women were dressed in slacks or saris. Most of them spoke fluent English. But they were very special travelers: 82 Asians who had been peremptorily ordered out of Uganda by Strongman Idi Amin Dada, even though they were all citizens. Suddenly made stateless, they constituted the first wave of a group of 1,000 refugees that the U.S. has agreed to accept...
...effort to rescue the Ugandans has been one of the speediest operations in the history of U.S. immigration. Taking at face value Amin's dire threats of retribution if the Asians do not leave by Nov. 8, the U.S. invoked a special provision of the Immigration Law that permits the U.S. Attorney General to accept refugees under his "parole." Once they arrive in America they can apply for permanent residency and eventually citizenship...
...Asians of British citizenship have landed in England from Uganda as a result of General Idi Amin Dada's expulsion order. Several thousand more are resettling in Canada, India and some 27 other countries. The assets they have left behind, with little hope of full compensation, are estimated to be worth more than a billion dollars. Despite rumors of wealth secreted in Britain and Switzerland, many of the refugees have arrived, as one British social worker observed, "with only what they can stand...
Britons Approve. Such excesses have helped make Amin Public Enemy No. 1 in the eyes of most Britons -and created some sympathy for the arriving Asians. Last week Amin called British High Commissioner Richard Slater into his office before live TV cameras and accused him of plotting against the Ugandan government; London angrily recalled its representative. Most Britons, according to a recent Harris poll, approve of Prime Minister Edward Heath's firm commitment to absorb the refugees...
...refugees originally expected, will immigrate to Britain. Even so, there will probably be another 5,000 Asians left behind, and they are the unluckiest of all. They earlier rejected British passports in favor of Ugandan citizenship, which has been arbitrarily revoked by Amin. They are now stateless. Britain has declined to consider restoring them to citizenship, and has referred their case to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. But there is growing concern whether any international body can act swiftly enough to save them from being further victimized...