Boat People
Among the many human tragedies of the conflict in Vietnam was the remarkable odyssey of the Vietnamese "boat people." Throughout the early months of 1975 there was mounting a...
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Boat People
With the images of Vietnam still fresh on their minds, Americans in the mid-1970s were confronted with horrifying news footage of half-starved Vietnamese refugees reaching the shores of Ho...
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At least 56 African migrants died this month trying to make the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.Ron Redmond, a spokesman for the U.N. High Com...
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As the talk show host chatted with the young filmmaker about his next project, Truc Ho, founder of the television network on which the program aired, started to pay closer attention.But then you do...
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Washington (dpa) - US President George W Bush plans to give two
speeches in the next week to make his case for keeping American
troops in Iraq despite the unpopularity of th...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
THE MISLEADING VIETNAM ANALOGY (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles)
With rhetoric that would stir any patriot but logic that should
persuade ...
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(EDS: RECASTING WITH MORE INFO)
Four people who entered a port in northern Japan's Aomori
Prefecture in an open boat of unknown nationality Saturday morning
said in Korean that they are from...
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Washington (dpa) - US President George W Bush on Wednesday warned
that a premature pullout of troops from Iraq could result in human
suffering like that following the Americ...
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A boatload of 59 dazed and exhausted African men arrived Tuesday in the Canary Islands, the latest wave in a constant flood of desperate migrants seeking a better life in Europe.The boat containing...
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Australia said Wednesday that it has struck a deal with the
United States under which the two countries will exchange asylum
seekers intercepted at sea and currently being held at offshore
d...
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(EDS: UPDATING WITH FRESH INFO IN THE FIRST 4 GRAFS)
Four people who entered a port in northeastern Japan's Aomori
Prefecture in an open boat of unknown nationality Saturday morning
told inv...
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(EDS: ADDING INFO AT 5TH-7TH, BOTTOM 2 GRAFS)
Four people who entered a port in northeastern Japan's Aomori
Prefecture in an open boat Saturday morning told investigators they
left a China-N...
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Boat People
Boat People
U.N. says 56 African boat people die
