Let me put one thing in perspective when we are talking about 1 year. This coming spring of 1980 will mark 5 years since the fall of Saigon. The large bulk of about 130.000 Indochinese refugees were resettled in the United States by Christmas of that year. If we are talking about a burden on the States of the refugees who came in 1976 and 1977. we are talking about a total flow in 1 year of about 11.000 from Indochina. the second year about 17.000. It was not in those 2 years that we had the tremendous buildups. It is subsequent to that period. just in the last year plus. so I just do not think that is the problem.
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