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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (7845)7/27/2006 1:44:26 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 220338
 
many did

just met wife's friend while in France, a prince of Laos, who had used some of his gold to buy passage way

in the particular instance, guns would have got him and family killed, food would have spoiled, and land was confiscated in any case

at least in this particular episode, gold was THE way

the same happened to many boat people, enough to have merit a mention in Times magazine of that era, andI do remember correctly


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