The gentleman may be interested to know that when I and a delegation totaling 12 Congressmen were in Hanoi in midAugust. we got some assurances from the Vietnamese that they would do what they could to regularize the outflow of emigrants. Of course. they were a little bit puzzled. On one hand. we ask them to let people go when they want to leave. On the other hand. we ask them not to let them go to create too great a refugee problem. So there is a bit of an ambiguity there. Also. when we say. "Dont create a lot of refugees." we are really asking them not to be Communists. They are not about to do that. It is a rough regime. and a lot of people do not want any part of it and do not want to stay there. I might point out. people in Vietnam are seeing all these pitiful boats full of refugees drowning. The Vietnamese Government is naturally not showing the picture. so a lot of these people are leaving the country without any knowledge of what they are getting into. These are some of the complicating factors I thc ight the gentleman might be interested in.
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