Action of the kind this bill proposes would not be without precedent. In 1956. in the wake of the Hungarian revolution. we accepted 38.000 Hungarians into our country. In 1959. we accepted 260.000 Cubans. We helped to evacuate 46.000 Asians from Uganda a few years ago after they were ordered out of that country by General Amin. In 1968. we admitted 10.000 Czechoslovakian refugees. An evacuation project of the magnitude envisioned by this bill will not be easy. It may be impossible. The bill provides that evacuation will not take place if the President determines that it is not feasible.
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