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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A July 17, 1975 The Utah Independent Page 11 Stand THE SCOTT REPORT PHU QUOCS FINAL 5 . CHAPTER by Paul Scott The final Washington: chapter of the tragic story of Phu Quoc is now being written in blood, tears, and internment in Vietnam and largely indifference from the outside world. Approximately half of the 40,000 refugees taken to the island. 50 miles from the coast of South Vietnam, during the Communist offensive on the mainland early this year, have been returned and placed in special internment camps set up near Saigon by their Communist captors. From these and indoctrination centers" many of these Phu Quoc refugees have literally disappeared. Officials of the United Nation's International Refugee office have been told by Communist authorities in Saigon that the refugees are being returned to areas in Vietnam from where they originally lived. Since most of these refugees fled originally from Communist North Vietnam in the 1950s, this report could mean that these refugees have been returned to internment camps in the North or killed. A number of killings are believed to have taken place shortly after the refugees arrived in the internment camps near Saigon. Dozens of refugees were last seen being forced aboard trucks at the Saigon camps and taken into the The trucks returned country-sid- e. empty except for the guards and drivers. At the time of this writing, an estimated 15.000 refugees are still being held on Phu Quoc in two old prison camps on the Southern part of the island. These prison camps were turned into refugee camps earlier this year when the refugees were brought by U.S. and South Vietnamese ships to the island. Most of these refugees were evacuated from the Northern and of South Central provinces Vietnam during the Communist offensive. from refugees the past escaping the island month indicate that there arc anywhere from three to five thousand refugees in the Northern mountains of Phu Quoc. These refugees fled to this Reports in region from the Southern camps when North Vietnamese troops took over the installations and the major cities and airports of the island. Most of these refugees are still seeking ways to escape from the island. They sail nightly in small boats to international waters in hopes that passing ships will rescue them. When none apepars, they return to their hiding places in the mountains. HUNDREDS ARE An estimated 300 RESCUED have been picked up in the past 10 weeks by foreign vessels passing The rescued near Phu Quoc. Southern and Western coasts of South Vietnam and surrounding islands seeking to be rescued. While a handful of American and foreign steamship companies are working with a private , of , organization in the their ships near the coast of South Vietnam to pick up these refugees, the Ford Administration has decided to look the other way. U.S. naval vessels have been pulled out of the areas and their commanders forbidden to offer . assistance South to Vietnamese refugees on the grounds that the U.S. evacuation of refugees is over. When a group of Catholic bishops recently brought up the matter of the refugees on Phu Quoc with President Ford at a White House he listened meeting, their to intensely pleas for help but made no commitment. The Bishops later were notified that the evacuation of refugees had ended so nothing would be done to help these refugees. When in Washington recently. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the exiled Soviet writer, forecast that more than one. million persons will be killed in South Vietnam by the Communist and another two to three million placed in internment camps over the next five years. As far as those refugees from Phu Quoc are concerned, the killing and internment already has The question each begun. American must begin asking: Can we as a people who cherish freedom stand by and let all of South Vietnam become a Phu Quoc? that will government abandon its allies to the enemy will soon abandon its own people unless those people take the necessary measures to protect their God-give- n freedom and begin extending it to others. A THE HELPING HELPLESS The Inter-America- n Commission on Human has just 'adopted two Rights resolutions the denouncing conditions in Cuban prisons and for a investigation of the way Fidel the to abolish sex discrimination. While the courts have been reluctant to take jurisdiction over the internal of a church or religious organization, they will step in when civil rights are involved. The courts have stepped in to protect the civil rights of children when --affairs refugees stress that there are literally thousands of Vietnamese floating in the waters off the any The Mopping Up Report Schlafly Phyllis Continued from page need full-sca- treats Castro le lit more than 10.000.... Although nupicrous filed at the been have complaints United Nations on the wav Castro treats political international s. Bob Jones University prisoners, the organization's Human Rights Commission has taken no steps to check them out. OUR SURVIVAL DOESNT MATTER? Have you noticed that as the Communist World expands and the Free World shrinks, that as the powers and influence of the Communists grow, the greater the threat of Communism to us becomes; the less we are concerned about tried to assert its First Amend- ment right to freedom of religion and argue that it is a religious college, and that the tenets of its religious faith require a difference in admissions policies between the races. The Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Supreme Court rejected this argument (because Federal was involved) and forced freedom of religion to give way to Federal rules against race discrimination. tax-exempti- on There is every reason to assume that, if ERA becomes the most recent constitutional amendment, the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Supreme Court will rule likewise on sex and allow our constitutional right to freedom of religion to be limited by the new rule requiring the Federal Government to use its power to abolish all difference of treatment between the sexes in every aspect of our lives touched by Fedunder eral and state laws - including the Internal Revenue Code, Section 501(c)(3) and Section 170(c)(2). -- tax-exempti- on The womens liberationists have access to an impresd sive roster of legal talent to fight their causes through the courts. The Equal Rights Amendment - with its total bar on sex discrimination - will give them the constitutional basis to achieve their objectives in forcing churches and synagogues to ordain women, and to admit them to total equality and sameness of treatment in churches, seminaries, and religious schools and organizations, or forfeit their status. high-price- -- -- tax-exem- pt The Big Tax Rip-O- ff m About $342,000 in federal funds will be used to seek detailed information on the sexual activity of Michigan State University students. According to Senator Proxmire, the grant who is now a was awarded to a former Professor in the Michigan State department of human development. The amount was almost $100,000 more than was requested. Graduate students will get $5.50 an hour to interview 400 male and 400 female students as well as with other students who report to the schools health center. Each interview is to be 5 hours long. In our day we could have given them a detailed description of our sexual activities, including everything we knew about sex, in a five minute interview. Guess we havent realized what has had. Small wonder that the an impact this grade average is dropping. The students simply dont have time to study. , . science-administrat- sex-freedo- or m Pasadena Review City of South Pasadena, CA -- South Why No Protest? - - Why? Gazette Telegraph Colorado Springs, Colorado it? It seems that the stronger Communism becomes, the weaker becomes; and that while this should make us more concerned, we become less concerned. We arent even concerned over our own survival, as if it didnt matter. -- J. Kesner Kahn Anti-Communis- m dead city, silent and empty. The doors of town houses have been forced and gape open, revealing ravaged interiors. The shop windows have been mashed. There is no traffic on the streets except for the occasional bicycle of a KmerRouge soldier carrying a Chinese rifle. About two million people vanished from the city in five days, ordered out to the rice paddies of the liberated zones. Private cars were abandoned anywhere, with all a four doors hanging open. The streets were littered with broken crockery, tires and furniture.. .Some soldiers were sweeping up, with their rifles on shoulder. They did not talk. They did not smile. Entire populations of large cities were forcibly evacuated, leaving all belongings behind, to prepared areas where they will remain until sufficiently purified to be allowed back. Hostile mothers and fathers searching for their young, but urged on by bayonets. Many begged French doctors in hospitals for the mercy of merciful deaths euthanasia for their family while still together, says the shocking report (and President Ford told his hed Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matthew 7:15 . - press-conferen- heard ce nothing about Cambodia) (probably too busy golfing!) journalists in the deserted city asked where the people had been taken, they were told they had gone to retraining camps, and that they will (someday, maybe) be When to their homes clean and with no useless belongings, to start their life from zero, free of the artificial needs of the Western world which was never theirs. Which might sound a little inviting at times, until you consider the human suffering involved in such a revolutionary break, returned -- and When it is disclosed that a government agency for the Revenue has Service Internal the power to instance, on citizens individual bank their accounts the snoop say, is civil libertarians heard round the world. As uproar among well it should be. The pitiable anomaly is that the same voices are mum, as if they'd quite visibly installed a scotch-tap- e tourniquet on their tongues, if it is shown the government keeps its eyes on individual businessmens books. Witness the case of House Banking Committee Chairman Henry Reuss, the Wisconsin Congressman who wants to require banks to report to the government just who is getting loans as indecent an interference as ever the government could inaugurate. The selfsame critics of government snooping may as well be away fishing, so conspicuously quiet are they about it. French newspaper correspondent got his story through the strict Cambodian censorship after the fall of PhnomPenh to the RmerRouge Communists; and only after the last, aliens had left Cambodia was his story released for publication. And its not a pretty story, lie reports that PhnomPenh is now political prisoners.. ..Amnesty international is asking its members to write to. Premier Castro to reveal how many political prisoners he still has The Central- behind bars. lists the Intelligence Agency number Jehovahs Witnesses denied blood transfusions to their children for religious reasons. The courts have stepped in to order compulsory school attendance even though this violated the religious convictions of the Menno-nite- one Only the freedom. like it?! loss of human How would YOU News & Views Vista, California DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 1776 Four specific references to the dependence of our nation on God: ...the laws of Nature and of Nature's God..." ...that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights...". ...appealing to the Supreme .1 udge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions... ...with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence... Keep the telephone of your mind forever transmitting thoughts of love, purity and joy; then when selfishness, lust and hate try to call up they get the busy signal. After a w hile they will forget your number. |