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to
that
say that we want either everything or nothing: a scheme
provides
something must be better than no scheme at
all.
(d) Vietnamese Boat People
18.
Another
problem which has been much on the minds
of all of us this year is the continuing inflow of boat
people from Vietnam. Since my address to this Council last
October, some 34,000 Vietnamese have arrived in this small
and crowded territory.
This is the highest number in any
year since 1979. The strain on our resources, and on our
patience and compassion, has been enormous. But we have
coped. We have housed, fed and cared for all those who have
come. We have turned no-one away. This is something of
which we can all be proud.
19.
Many people outside
realise what a burden the
•
Hong Kong do not seem to
continuing flow from Vietnam
I myself am only too conscious that it has
community.
I
creates for
severely strained the tolerance of Our
sympathise with those who argue that we have now done
enough. It is not by choice that the Government spends
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