Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...else, and Carter had other matters on his mind in the Far East. In Tokyo, he announced that the U.S. would take in 14,000 Vietnamese refugees a month, double the figure now, and won agreement from his fellow summiteers to press for an international conference on the boat people's plight. In Korea, from which Carter had once pledged to withdraw U.S. troops, he had to reassess a military situation that makes withdrawal difficult...
...Save us! Save us!" shouted a Vietnamese refugee last week as Malaysian naval vessels towed two boats back out to sea. With some 520 people aboard, they had arrived in Malaysian waters the previous day and had desperately tried to unload their passengers. One boat was listing badly; supplies of food and water were exhausted. Since departing from Viet Nam five days earlier, the boats had been raided and robbed three times by Thai pirates. Now, as the Malaysian navy pulled them back to sea, the refugees were in a panic. "We don't know what they intend...
Their destination was simply the open sea. As part of its get-tough policy toward the Vietnamese boat people, who have been arriving on its shores in ever growing numbers, Malaysia in the past two weeks has sent nearly 15,000 Vietnamese refugees back to sea. Malaysia has disposed of 55,000 unwelcome guests in that brutal fashion since Jan. 1, but there are still 76,000 Vietnamese exiles in the country's refugee camps...
...policy was born of desperation, although it seemed shockingly inhumane. Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad announced that his government was going to get tough with refugees from Viet Nam. Not only would Malaysia shoot on sight at any more of the so-called boat people who tried to land on its shores, said Mahathir, but it would push back to sea the 76,000 who have already landed there. If necessary, continued Mahathir, Malaysia would build boats in which to remove them. Said he: "If they try sinking the boats, they won't be rescued. They...
Most of the boat people are set adrift in hopelessly overcrowded craft with inadequate food and water. Many of the vessels have capsized in tropical storms; others have been attacked at sea by pillaging Thai pirates...