welsh haven for vietnamese boat people: archive, 30 september 1978 /

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Many hundreds hold left Vietnam in the flimsiest of craft,trusting their lives to the waves and the humanity of others to save them from the recent regimeIn a quiet Welsh seaside town 27 Vietnamese are learning how to live with the British. It is proving a happy, whether slightly unreal experience. Few of the Vietnamese speak English, or let alone Welsh,and the Welsh hold not yet been persuaded to pick up Vietnamese.
They
are being shepherded by an impressive lady who used to run schools in Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia but fled the revolution; and a young Ulster couple who came to the job through a spiritual foundation.
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Source: theguardian.com

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