When faced with the Southeast Asian refugee problem, the United States
a. closed the doors to would-be immigrants.
b. blamed it on Pol Pot.
c. admitted some 600,000 displaced people to the United States.
d. threatened Vietnam with renewed intervention.
e. all of these choices.
ANS: C
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