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mavey quote, "unforeseen emergency refugee sicuations, L F justifiea oy humani barlan Owner Pi OY

in the MACI Ma interest i f It can't be accomplished under CMW Norma : Con sui procedure. Therefore, why is this reserve quoba being proposed) would the administration anticipate utilizing this reserve quota withour prior consultation Of the Congress? Please, your View ON

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SECRETARY SHULTZ: As I said, I think it i is a prediction more confident prediction, unfortunately

that there are clearly enough wiid cards in the situation that we know that there are going to be needs that fall outside the boundaries of the specific requests that have been made And I've tried to outline in my testimony some of the uncertainties. For example, the immigration levels from th Soviet Union have been at a very,

We keep urging them to allow NOT & emigration. If they should do so, we need to be ready to take those people There are a kind of inventory,

you might say, of potential refugees from Eastern

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Europe that are there. There are uncertainties around the world in Africa,

in Latin America, in Southeast Asia, for that matter, that I tried to identify, that lead us to conclude that there will be needs in

some of these areas, and we can 't really identify which ones. So rather than allocate out the whole 70,000, We thought it might be more proper to make the allocations area by area carefully as could, and then say right up front, fran

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that we think that are going to have to juggle around a Tittle bit.

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CHAIRMAN SIMPSON: I would acknowledge those uncertainties. I think that's very real. But I think that's exactly why we put that specific language in- of the special provisions in the Refugee Act just

exactly to address those uncertainties. So, without going further on that at this point,

look forward to working with the State Department, and we'l See if

can assure that I think the present language will do it very nicelv. If it doesn't, we'll

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