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THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1989

PROBLEM IN AFTER

"I THINK FIRST OF ALL WE'VE GOT TO SET THE WHOLE CONTEXT. WE'VE HAD 30,000 BOAT PEOPLE THIS YEAR. WE'RE LOOKING 50,000 IN ALL.

"IT'S

AND PUT EVERYBODY UNDER GREAT STRAIN THERE'S A GREAT CONFLICT OF EMOTION FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SAYING THAT WE SHOULD DO MORE, MAKE BETTER ARRANGEMENTS, LIBERAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR ALL THE BOAT PEOPLE.

YOU

KNOW

THAT COMMUNITY MAKE MORE

"AND THE NATURAL FEELING OF LOCAL PEOPLE THAT WE SHOULD NOT OVER-GENEROUS IN THE PROVISION OF SPACE AND FACILITIES.'

BE

PEOPLE IN

INEVITABLY, SIR DAVID SAID, WITH THESE NUMBERS OF RESTRICTED SPACE, THERE WERE GOING TO BE SOME TENSIONS, AND THAT THESE SORT OF TENSIONS OCCASIONALLY OVER-SPILLED INTO VIOLENCE.

WHETHER IT'S ON

AFTER

"OF COURSE WE DEPLORE ANY SORT OF VIOLENCE BEHALF OF THE BOAT PEOPLE OR ANY OF OUR STAFF WHO ARE LOOKING THEM, AND THEREFORE WE ARE QUITE DETERMINED TO GET TO THE BOTTOM ANY ALLEGATIONS, HE ADDED.

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SIR DAVID SAID A FULL REPORT HAD BEEN CALLED FOR AND WOULD BE PURSUED VIGOROUSLY.

OF

THAT IT

VERY THE CHIEF SECRETARY POINTED OUT THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS

VIETNAM AS THEIR ANXIOUS TO PERSUADE THE BOAT PEOPLE TO RETURN TO FUTURE WAS VERY BLEAK.

"THAT IS WHY WE'RE SO KEEN ON THE RETURN OF PEOPLE TO EITHER ON A VOLUNTARY BASIS OR ON AN INVOLUNTARY BASIS IF THAT TO BE NECESSARY," SIR DAVID SAID.

VIETNAM PROVES

HE STRESSED, HOWEVER, THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT SEND PEOPLE ARRANGEMENTS IN THE BACK UNTIL IT WAS TOTALLY SATISFIED THAT THE

BACK WERE MONITORING OF CONDITIONS OF THOSE WHO WERE SENT ORGANISED AND ARRANGED.

PROPERLY

THE

"WE'VE GOT TO BE TOTALLY SATISFIED FROM ALL POINTS OF VIEW THAT SIR ARRANGEMENTS ARE AS COMPREHENSIVE AS THEY POSSIBLY CAN DAVID SAID.

BE,"

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