Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so overwhelming a problem as energy, of course, cannot preoccupy a U.S. President to the exclusion of all 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...
An international effort begins to rescue Indochina's dispossessed "
The Malaysians presumably were also trying to shock the West into belated recognition of a human tragedy that has global dimensions. In Southeast Asia today, there are perhaps 360,000 Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian refugees, and the total could easily double by the end of the year. In the midst...
For the moment, the biggest problem is a stopgap one: to rescue the boat people immediately. A recently formed Tokyo-based group called Refugees International is urging the U.S. and other countries to provide emergency facilities, such as abandoned government bases, to be used for housing refugees temporarily until permanent...
He won a gold medal running the 400-meter hurdles in a record 47.82 sec. at the Munich Olympics in '72. But that didn't matter in the hallucinogenic country that Uganda became under Idi Amin. For three years John Akii-bua, 29, was forbidden to leave the...