Acevedo, who was in charge of public relations at the Committee, perished in the crash of Swissair Flight 111 on September 2.
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The State Department recently announced that it will reduce the number of refugees who will be admitted to the United States in 1999. The escalator is going in the wrong direction. In the new fiscal year, the admission ceiling will total 78,000, compared with 83,000 in the year just ended. The latest ceiling resumes a downward trend that began in the 1993 fiscal year, when the ceiling dropped to 132,000 places. The admissions ceiling includes openings for 12,000 refugees from Africa, up from the 7,000 that had been allocated to the region in recent years.