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...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...
...most urgent problem is the plight of at least 200,000 people who have fled from the righting. Some have escaped into the countryside. But most have flocked into refugee centers in the capital, straining the capacity of church and charitable organizations beyond the breaking point...
...plight of the refugees in Southeast Asia grows worse
Mahathir's ugly words may actually have done the refugees a service, since the threat shocked the Western world into belated recognition of a human tragedy that is almost beyond solution. One Italian newspaper called the situation a "liquid Auschwitz," meaning that in its size and horror the plight of the Southeast Asian refugees is taking on some of the aspects of Hitler's "final solution...
...month. Of these, about 7,000 a month are going to the U.S. The result is that the camps and resettlement areas of Southeast Asia are choked with more than 300,000 refugees. Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has called for an international conference on the plight of the refugees, and the subject is certain to be discussed at this week's summit conference in Tokyo...