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 CIS NO: 89-H381-68
 TITLE: Crisis Facing Vietnamese Refugees Seeking First Asylum in Thailand.
 SOURCE: Committee on Foreign Affairs. House
 DOC TYPE: Hearing                   COLLATION: iii+134 p.
 DATE: Feb. 24, 1988
 CONGRESS-SESSION: 100-2             SUDOC: Y4.F76/1:V67/9
 ITEM NO: 1017-A; 1017-B
 LC CARD NO: 89-601840               MC ENTRY NO: 89-12328

 Hearing before the Subcom on Asian and Pacific Affairs to examine Thai and
 U.S. responses to the recent increase in Vietnamese refugees seeking first
 asylum in Thailand.
   Supplementary material (p. 123-134) includes correspondence.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnamese refugees seeking asylum in Thailand, US and
     Thai response
 DESCRIPTORS: SUBCOM ON ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS. HOUSE; THAILAND;
     INDOCHINESE REFUGEES; FOREIGN.RELATIONS

 89-H381-68 TESTIMONY NO: 1         Feb. 24, 1988 p. 4-73
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     SANTOLI, AL
     LOWMAN, SHEPARD C. (both members, U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR))
     WINTER, ROGER P. (Director, USCR)
     KHOA, LE XUAN (President, Indochina Resource Action Center)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Nature and extent of increase in Vietnamese
     refugees arriving in Thailand; problems facing Vietnamese refugees;
     details of Thai Government interdiction at sea of Vietnamese refugees
     seeking first asylum; recommendations for U.S. responses, including
     proposals to maintain and/or raise current Vietnamese refugee admissions
     ceilings.
 INSERTION: 
     -- USCR, "Mission to Thailand" preliminary report (p. 5-20).
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnamese refugees seeking asylum in Thailand, US and
     Thai response
 DESCRIPTORS: U.S. COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES; INDOCHINA RESOURCE ACTION
     CENTER

 89-H381-68 TESTIMONY NO: 2         Feb. 24, 1988 p. 73-121
 WITNESSES (and witness notations):
     SIGUR, GASTON, J., JR. (Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and
        Pacific Affairs, Department of State)
     MOORE, JONATHAN (Coordinator for Refugee Affairs, Department of State)
     BROWN, WILLIAM A. (U.S. Ambassador to Thailand)
 STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION: Review of increase in Vietnamese refugees
     arriving in Thailand; details of U.S. efforts to end Thai Government
     rejection of Vietnamese refugees seeking first asylum; issues involved
     in U.S. admissions ceilings for Vietnamese refugees.
 CONTENT NOTATION: Vietnamese refugees seeking asylum in Thailand, US and
     Thai response
 DESCRIPTORS: DEPARTMENT.OF.STATE