SAIGON AID TEAM
Some Members To Leave
New Zealanders and Australians serving with the Asian Christian Service team in Saigon, would be withdrawn from South Vietnam as soon as possible because of
security risks caused by the deterioration of the situation
in Saigon, the Rev. R. M. O’Grady, assistant general secretary of the National Council of Churches, said this week. Nationals of other countries with military commitments in Vietnam would also be withdrawn, but a small group of neutral workers from India, Indonesia and Ceylon would be left to carry on the work. Workers with a team in Gia Be would be withdrawn as soon as replacements were available. Two of the New Zealanders, Mr S. Smith, of Christchurch, and Miss A. Thompson, of the West Coast, would return home, but it was likely that Miss L. Wray, of
Waimate, would join a new service team to be set up in Laos by the East Asia Christian Conference.
Other workers who had had to be withdrawn from Vietnam would help to form the core of the new team, which would give aid to some of the 600,000 refugees from the Vietnam war now living in Laos.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31724, 6 July 1968, Page 21
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