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Washington has pledged to give "full and thorough consideration" to that request, even though Managua has lately become a mecca for Marxist mischief makers from around the world. The Sandinistas claim that they need the arms to ward off a possible counterattack by 7,000 national guardsmen that Somoza's legendary combat leader, Commandante Bravo, claims to have standing by in Honduras...
...would take the primary responsibility for bringing it about. In fact, she and her Cabinet colleagues had worked out the Tory government's African position before the conference began. But by publicly announcing it at the Lusaka summit, in response to African demands, she made it seem as though she had heeded Commonwealth views...
...spite of the worldwide crescendo of concern for them, Indochina's refugees remain the victims of acts of God and man. Though President Carter dispatched a five-ship Seventh Fleet task force to pick up whatever boat people it could find, the Navy rescue mission was temporarily halted after twelve days, when the 150 m.p.h. winds of Typhoon Hope whipped the South China Sea into a cauldron of death. Some 443 Vietnamese aboard three junks barely made it to Hong Kong after being pushed back to sea from Macao by Portuguese officials the day before the storm...
...Though many Western countries pledged at Geneva to raise their refugee immigration quotas, nothing has yet been done to shorten the shocking delays involved in resettling the homeless who are languishing in camps in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Hong Kong. In Bangkok, where the U.N. maintains a 15-story skyscraper, the UNHCR has only 48 full-time employees to deal with a refugee population currently totaling 175,000. At the country's 16 refugee camps, a swamped staff of just twelve field workers is assigned to monitor aid and assist in resettlement. At least 40,000 of the inhabitants...
...Though the U.S., which will take 168,000 refugees over the next twelve months, has by far the largest quota (next biggest: Canada, which has pledged to accept 50,000 by the end of 1980), it also has one of the most time-consuming screening procedures. A family eligible for immigration typically must wait 14 to 16 months while its members are subjected to a series of four widely separated interviews by different organizations, all covering the same ground. Refugees with communicable diseases like tuberculosis may be delayed indefinitely. By the time a refugee is on a U.S.-bound plane...