Word: amerasian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legacy is written most urgently, and perhaps most hauntingly, in the faces of the Amerasian children who cling with desperation to almost any foreigner they encounter. Before opening Ho Chi Minh City's doors to Western newsmen, the government tried to shut away many of these children in a nearby detention center. Last week one boy, barely in his teens, who had escaped the roundup, began holding onto an American journalist, writing down what looked like a G.I. serial number and repeating, over and over, "Papa." Within minutes, a policeman seized the boy and dragged him away in handcuffs...
...assigning blame and guilt solely to military men for the tragedy of the illegitimate Amerasian children [NATION, Sept. 24], you overlook the thousands of newsmen, civilian contractors, Government employees and merchants who flocked to Viet Nam in pursuit of the dollar...
Secretary of State George Shultz fails to tell us who pays when the Amerasian youngsters are brought to the U.S. If these children are shunned by their maternal families, tell me why we are also taking their family members. Who is to know if we are being used, as we were by the Cubans, as a dumping ground for prisoners...
...still in Viet Nam. Many of these youngsters are outcasts, shunned by their maternal families and living at a barebones subsistence level In an effort to help solve the problem, Secretary of State George Shultz presented to Congress last week a proposal to admit 8,000 so-called Amerasian children to the U.S. over three years. "Because of their undisputed ties to our country, these children and family members are of particular humanitarian concern to the United States," Shultz told a Senate judiciary subcommittee on refugees. He also asked that American doors be opened for an esti mated...
PERHAPS, PROBABLY. But considering the difficulty this moderate piece of legislation has had, a more liberal bill, as one McKinney staffer says, "is just not going to happen." The Amerasian Immigration Act appears the best practical hope for these children...