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THE 400 000 LONG-STAYERS (THOSE WHO ARRIVED PRIOR TO 1986) AND FOR THE 160 MINORS AT GALANG.
SOME OF THE LONG-STAYERS, ESPECIALLY THE WOMEN, WERE SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION AS A RESULT OF THE TEDIUM AND LACK OF PROSPECTS.
SUICIDE COULD BECOME A PROBLEM,
AN INCREASING NUMBER WERE BECOMING MENTALLY DISTURBED.
IF THEY WERE NOT ACCEPTED WHILE THEIR MENTAL PROBLEM WAS RELATIVELY MINOR, THEIR CONDITION WOULD DETERIORATE WHICH WOULD DIMINISH THEIR CHANCES OF ACCEPTANCE.
FINLAND, SURPRISINGLY, HAD ACCEPTED SOME REFUGEES INCLUDING SEVERAL OF THE MENTALLY DISTURBED,
THE PROBLEM WITH THE MINORS WAS IN IDENTIFYING THE PARENTS IN VIETNAM
AS THE PARENTS WOULD PROBABLY DENY THEIR KINSHIP,
BOTH TO AVOID POSSIBLE LEGAL CONSEQUENCES AND TO RETAIN
A CHANCE OF FAMILY REUNION.
7. SAID, WHO IS VERY SCEPTICAL ABOUT THE VIETNAMESE, COMMENTED DERISIVELY ON FOREIGN MINISTER NGUYEN CO THACH'S STATEMENT THAT ONLY VIETNAM WOULD DETERMINE WHOM THEY WOULD TAKE BACK.
SAID HAD LITTLE TIME FOR >> VOLUNTARY REPATRIATION?
NON BONA FIDE REFUGEES SHOULD BE SENT BACK INVOLUNTARILY
THEY HAD NO INCENTIVE TO GO BACK VOLUNTARILY HAVING ALREADY SOLD AND RISKED EVERYTHING,
P3V'S RECENT REQUEST AT GALANG FOR THOSE INTERESTED
IN REPATRIATION TO INDICATE SAME DREW A BLANK.
8. HE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED THE LAO/THAI ARRANGEMENT BE CONSIDERED AS A BASIS FOR THE VIETNAMESE AS WELL, WHICH ACCORDING TO HIS PERCEPTION IS TO DIVIDE THEM INTO THREE GROUPS :
(1)
CRIMINALS
(2)
THOSE LURED BY PROPAGANDA TO LEAVE, AND
(3) THOSE WHO JOINED OTHERS WHO HAD ALREADY FLED
AND THEN ACCEPT ALL IN CATEGORIES (2) AND (3).
HE CLAIMED THAT CATEGORY (1) COMPRISED ONLY 45 CRIMINALS
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