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to respond by accepting more refugees from Hong Kong.

officials are taking similar action with the US Embassy

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US Position

4. US has accepted about 62,000 Vietnamese refugees from Hong Kong, 60% of all those

1985 it took about 1,600, and

for 1986.

resettled from Hong Kong. in is considering the same number

US officials previously indicated that more

refugees might be accepted i f Hong Kong agreed to the

measures described in para 3 above.

Ine US will

from

the transit centre, since it will have more decide whether to resettle ship rescue

benefit

time to

cases.

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