Mr. President. I introduce for appropriate reference a bill to assist refugees of Vietnam. The final blunder of Vietnam may be that the administration has chosen evacuation of nearly 100.000 Vietnamese as a substitute for accommodation in their own country. That policy should be reversed. Ninety percent of the Vietnamese refugees would be better off going back to their own land. And I say that in a humanitarian spirit. America will not turn away those few who might be endangered by a return to their homeland. But I have never thought that more than a handful of government leaders were in any real danger of reprisals. The great majority of Vietnamese refugees do not fall into that category. Most of them left in panic out of fear of a bloody final battle for Saigon that did not materialize. Nor is it likely that the new government will engage in the bloodbath our policymakers have talked about so much.
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