Mr. Speaker. in his column of May 6. Art Buchwald could find nothing humorous in the indications of American hostility to the refugees from Vietnam. Instead he wrote with obviously deep feeling. urging America to live up to its finest traditions. as follows: LooK WEST. Miss LIBERTY. AND SHiNu YoUR LIGHT (By Art Buchwald) The Statue of Liberty was gazing toward Europe when I tapped her on her shoulder. "Maam." I said. "if you look the other way. we have about 130.000 Vietnamese refugees coming in from Guam and the Philippines. I thought you might hold your torch high and light the way for them." The statue seemed irritated. "We have too many people In this country now. What am I going to do with 130.000 Orientals?" "The same thing you did with everybody else.
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