REFUGEES: Save Us! Save Us!

An international effort begins to rescue Indochina's dispossessed "

A poor man's alternative to the gas chambers is the open sea. Today it is the Chinese Vietnamese. The Cambodians have already been added to the list of people who are going to die. Why not Thailand tomorrow, and Malaysia, Singapore and others who stand in the way of Viet Nam's dreams?"

— Foreign Minister Sinnathamby Rajaratnam of Singapore

"Save us! Save us!" shouted a Vietnamese refugee last week as Malaysian naval vessels towed two boats back out to sea. With some 520 people...

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