Certainly. few humanitarian issues are more compelling than their plight. Some 6.000 political prisoners are still being held because of their past association with the former Government of South Vietnam. or because of their association with the United States. Five years ago senior officials of Vietnam offered to release these political prisoners if the United States would accept them. In 1984. before our Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs. during our annual consultation on refugee admissions. Secretary of State Shultz did just that: he accepted on behalf of the United States the offer Vietnam had made. Since then there has been silence and no progress.
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