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Transcript: Profile: Norwegian freighter carrying more than 400 asylum seekers being refused permission to dock in Australia
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- NPR Morning Edition
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- August 28, 2001
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Profile: Norwegian freighter carrying more than 400 asylum seekers
being refused permission to dock in Australia
Host: RENEE MONTAGNE
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM
RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
The fate of more than 400 asylum seekers onboard a Norwegian freighter
off Australia's northwestern coast remains uncertain. The vessel
picked up the refugees on Sunday from a sinking Indonesian ferry,
but now Australia and Indonesia are refusing to allow the freighter
to dock. Trent O'Keefe reports from Sydney.
TRENT O'KEEFE reporting:
It began with a call by Australian rescue authorities for a ship to
go to the aid of an overcrowded vessel in danger of sinking about
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