Hanoi Regime Reported Resolved To Oust Nearly All Ethnic Chinese
Refugee and intelligence sources say Vietnam appears determined to expel all ethnic Chinese and is exacting hundreds of millions of dollars from them before their departure, much of it to repay Soviet aid and arms sales; Yu Hoang, Vietnamese official in charge of emigration in Ho Chi Minh City, says Govt wants to expel Chinese as quickly as possible and asked him for help; says there are still 800,000 to 1.2 million Chinese in southern Vietnam following departure of 300,000 during last year; Red Cross official believes that as more refugees put out to sea, likelihood of their reaching foreign shore is declining; calculates that proportion of those drowning or dying of exposure, hunger and thirst at sea has risen from 50% to 70%; refugees comment (L)
