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...standard, but erroneous, defense of the grant is that it was meant not to offer a "political judgment," as London's Sunday Times put it, but merely to help the refugees???there are up to 100,000?who are cared for just beyond Rhodesia's borders by the revolutionary Patriotic Front. Opponents of the guerrillas argue that many of the refugees were forced to flee Rhodesia by Patriotic Front troops. Even if that is true, there is no doubt that many women and children in the camps are in a pitiable state and that their need for Christian charity...
...government crackdown on private enterprise that began in March. Most larger businesses were taken over by the government, and thousands of Chinese have fled the country or are waiting, miserably and without shelter, at the Viet Nam-China border for the chance to get out. An estimated 8,000 refugees???Chinese and non-Chinese?have found their way to Hong Kong alone since the fall of Saigon. Another 10,000 or so have made it to France...
...perhaps the incalculable enrichment of America by those refugees???by Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, Artur Schnabel and Paul Tillich?that started the process of change. By special legislation in 1948, the U.S. began admitting more than 400,000 "displaced persons." Then came 32,000 refugees from the Hungarian revolt of 1956 and some 650,000 from Fidel Castro's seizure of Cuba in 1959. But only under President John F. Kennedy, great-grandson of an immigrant farmer from Ireland's County Wexford, did overall reform begin. According to the Immigration Act of 1965, which finally took effect...
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