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Three Administrations in Washington have insisted that Vietnam meet several conditions before diplomatic or commercial relations can return to normal. All Vietnamese troops must be permanently withdrawn from Cambodia and a peaceful settlement must be reached in that ravaged land. The roughly 15,000 Amerasian children (now young adults, like many of the children of the MIAs) must be allowed to leave Vietnam if they wish, and political prisoners freed from re- education camps. Questions about the remaining POW/MIAs should be resolved. So runs the checklist of U.S.-Vietnamese policy, as it has for much of the past decade. Hanoi...
...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...