Refugees’ plight
An estimated 40 per cent ) of refugees who escape from - Vietnam in small boats die - before they reach their des- - tination, according to a Can- - adian immigration official, : Les Gallagher, of the Federal Manpower and Immigration - Department, said that many 5 reached land only to be - towed back out to sea by 1 the local authorities, and the 1 situation of those allowed ■ ashore on a temporary basis was at best precarious while a they waited in refugee .1 camps for resettlement in a 3 third country, he said. — -1 Halifax.
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Press, 9 November 1978, Page 8
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