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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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