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  1. The term boat people is used for illegal 
  2. emigrants travelling by sea, especially 
  3. Vietnamese who left their country after the
  4. takeover of South Vietnam in 1975 by North 
  5. Vietnam. Over 160,000 Vietnamese fled to 
  6. Hong Kong, many of which were attacked at sea
  7. by Thai pirates.
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  9. Subject by: John Denver
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