Word: buchananism
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...late. Says Maryland Congressman Robert Bauman: "After five years of losing initiative a change at the last minute to win back our support isn't going to help." So much criticism of Nixon was voiced at a conference of conservatives in Washington last January that Presidential Assistant Patrick Buchanan rather defensively asserted: "The President may not be a card-carrying conservative, but he is certainly a fellow traveler...
When Lee Sanne Buchanan met her newly adopted Vietnamese baby boy at the Denver airport in 1968, she joined one of the most exclusive parents' groups in the U.S. Though tens of thousands of South Vietnamese children became orphans that year, fewer than a dozen found homes in the U.S. Moved by the plight of those left behind, Buchanan resurrected a dormant aid organization to provide food and care for the orphans as well as to oil the adoption machinery...
...Today Buchanan's organization, now known as Friends for All Children, operates in 23 states and is one of five U.S. agencies processing adoptions from South Viet Nam.* Their job is immense. There are an estimated 800,000 orphans in South Viet Nam; more than 20,000 are crammed into understaffed, under-equipped orphanages that are often breeding grounds for deadly respiratory and intestinal diseases. Moreover, because of social taboos against mixed-blood offspring, many of the children who are half-American have been abandoned by their Vietnamese mothers now that the G.I.s have all gone home...
Hoarding Food. Like many Vietnamese children, Kim-Oanh, the second adopted child of Lee Sanne Buchanan, arrived in Denver at the age of five suffering from malnutrition; at meals she would hold her plate to her face while she wolfed down her food. Other Vietnamese newcomers hoarded food in bureau drawers. The adopted son of Randy and Debbie Boroughs of Wayne, Pa., is very conscious of every bite. "Once he dropped a grain of rice on the floor," recalls his mother, "then quickly got down from the chair, picked it up and put it in his mouth." Yet, to this...
...young refugees, day-to-day contact with war has bred an obsession with death. Some children worriedly interpret wrinkles and white hair on visitors or grandparents as a sure sign that their end is imminent. After returning from a trip to South Viet Nam, Lee Sanne Buchanan fell seriously ill with hepatitis, and Kim-Oanh shrank back from her. "I don't like you any more because you are going to die," she said...