Refugees safe at last
NZPA-Reuier Bangkokl I A Vietnamese fishing boat! carrying 400 refugees has] reached sanctuary in Thailand, for the second time in! a week. All the “boat people” on board were guaranteed a new home in West Germany when their boat was first towed into Thai waters last Saturday by the West German freighter Tom Jacobs. But the Thai Navy, appar-i ently unaware of the West German offer, gave the refugees provisions and towed I their vessel back out to sea. Thailand mounted an air- ' sea search for the boat after:; the mix-up was discovered,i and yesterday the Vietnam- " ese were back again. Thailand has said in the I 1 past that all refugee boats I will be towed back out to|' sea, but in practice since h April the refugees have been I’ sent to camps in the south- i east. ] In Washington, the Carter i Administration has an- i nounced that it is prepared to admit 26,375 refugees from South-East Asia and , Lebanon and political pris-' , oners from Cuba. Included in the total were ; 2500 refugees aboard the , freighter Hai Hong, which is , stranded .in Malaysian ; waters. The announcement came j after the Malaysian Home Affairs Minister (Tan Sri Ghazali Shatie) appealed to; 1 President Carter to give ad lead to setting up proper transit and processing cen- ' tres for Indo-Chinese refu- ■ gees. Malaysia now had ' 42,511 Vietnamese boat 1 people — “well beyond the 1 level of tolerance.” 1
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