Mr. Speaker. just for the record. I call my colleagues attention to a report in Wednesdays Washington Post which indicates that more than 2.650 Vietnamese and Cambodian refugees now wish to return home. The article also notes that the new government in South Vietnam has reacted positively to overtures by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. who has sought to determine whether those who return would be welcome. I raise this point. because I seem to recall a lot of criticism. bordering at times on ridicule. directed both at me and at Senator McGovERN when we suggested last month that many refugees might want to go back when the bloodbath scare subsides and ought to be offered the opportunity to do so. The hundreds who have already expressed a wish to return are apparently far more trusting than our friends in the executive branch who have responded to the new governments in South Vietnam and Cambodia only by imposing a total trade embargo on those countries and pulling off a triggerhappy police action in the Gulf of Siam. The text of the article follows:
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