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GsViets, Texans <5 try for peace at conference home on (I 1 w henl« tfinishedotL United Press International mlxn l HOUSTON — One key to defus- putnwf ing the “potential disaster” of In dochinese retugee resettlement in cs and they! Texas will be finding them jobs out- n n .L e?t side the overcrowded fishing indus- k / ' try. a refugee told a federal peace- ack imlV/ making meetin S Wednesday, ards ’ li fi^W e are talking about the whole I , tS ’, i,®Gulf Coast as an area of potential v 1 di saster > Dr - Nguyen Van Chau, director of Resettlement Inc. of , "j | j/ r Beaumont, warned refugees, fisher- . ti!' i " men > politicians and social workers gathered for the meeting. - ra [’ c “' ^®'We have to work very fast. We . ^ want to investigate all alternatives, jcnard even f arrn i n g j a ll types of business II , Kl)t . eV(l we could bring in for Indochinese to get (them) out of areas of sharp con flict like shrimping, crabbing.” Ine ron'Obr.dChau said there are 1,500 In- 1 ^Indochinese refugees involved in ■andthenHiMtas’ fishing industry. He warned k'dky in a 1 tfl a t number soon could double with the influx of more refugees, who like ting wife (i ^ hot climate and who work cheap- U P liom PI; er than Americans, g I do is wijMThe problem is not racial pre- nber One, a judice,” said Emery' Waite of Kemah e made® on Galveston Bay. “It’s economic survival (for the fishermen).” r the Prince®We’ve got too many boats now,” : I cigarettep agreed Bo Cunningham of Seadrift est pocket oniSan Antonio Bay. “We have no- differencei thing against the Vietnamese peo- ion< \ onto pie There’s just not enough re tie. Causet sources. It’s gonna come to the point of gold, 1 where nobody’s making a living.” Bee. The shooting death of Billy Joe art thin* Aplin by a Vietnamese man in Sead- Juanita sai rift last year and other incidents were blamed on fishing-related tensions between Vietnamese refugees and native Texans who complain they are ing crowded out. ^BATTALION Page 5 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1980 J.C. Harlan, president of the Sea food Producers Association of Rock- port, said his town, with the help of a Vietnamese fluent in English, had kept the peace by communicating and cooperating. But he also said the Vietnamese fishermen active in the area had merely replaced Texans who left the business and had not added to the economic stress. Chau said there are other areas of tension — the language barrier, re fugee ignorance of local laws and cus toms and Texan ignorance of Viet namese culture. He called for aggressive action to solve these prob lems. Chau praised the City of Port Arthur for creating seminars for re fugees to educate them about their new surroundings. The 60 persons attending the meeting — representing communi ties all along the Texas Gulf Coast as well as state and federal agencies and social organizations — held work shop sessions to try to agree on prob lems and coordinated solutions. Efrain Martinez of the sponsoring Justice Department Community Re lations Service said the meeting was the latest CRS effort to solve prob lems for the 25,000 Texas refugees but the first meeting to assemble all groups involved. “We hope to accomplish an en lightenment of all the parties as to the status of the Indochinese on the Gulf Coast and ways to help,” Mar tinez said. Cunningham, a Seadrift city coun cilman, said tensions in that tiny Gulf Coast community have subsided since the Aplin death. bducted infant reunited ith her mother in El Paso United Press International L PASO — A Mesquite woman se daughter was abducted Mon- was reunited with the 2-month- infant Wednesday at the El Paso llllllllllllllltllllli;*C(|H)ty Sheriffs Department. THEM! 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