Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Down the gangplanks of the first rescue ships to reach Guam filed thousands of refugees who had fled the Vietnamese coast in small boats-barefoot, poor and bandy-legged, bringing little more with them than the soiled, flimsy clothing they wore, carrying infants and small bundles of belongings. They were not the endangered elite of a fallen nation, but instead plain soldiers, fishermen and gnarled farmers. One wealthy Vietnamese immigrant who watched them said superciliously: "You can tell by their accents that they are only peasants. They are the wrong people. They should never have come. They will only make...
...refugees on Guam were more representative of South Viet Nam as a whole. According to TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, who interviewed scores of the refugees last week, most were originally Northerners, predominantly Roman Catholics, who fled not out of last-minute panic but for reasons that they had long pondered. They often refer to the U.S. as "Freedom Land...
Culture Shock. Miami's Cuban community took in four families-31 refugees-who were housed in a nondescript motel in the city's Little Havana section. "It's only natural," says Sylvia Goudie, who fled Cuba in 1960. "If we, the Cubans, don't help them, who is going to do it?" In Loma Linda, Calif., the Seventh-day Adventist community sponsored en masse the 388 doctors, nurses and medical technicians from Saigon's Adventist Hospital...
...plan fell apart, leaving stranded hundreds of Vietnamese employees of the U.S. embassy, USAID and USIS. Some were never called, and buses were too crowded or failed to make their way to designated pickup points. In one shocking instance, a senior member of the embassy's Mission Council fled his post for the embassy hours before he should have, leaving his agency's evacuation program a shambles...
...during the war conveniently isolate the refugees from the context of American involvement in Vietnam and Cambodia, and ignore America's responsibility to all of the people it has affected in the course of the war. To refuse to recognize that the U.S. is responsible for all those who fled their homes and who fled Indochina--whether they were high government officials and U.S. employees afraid of "blood-baths," or peasants afraid of the last days of battle or perhaps even more U.S. bombs--is to deny the dominant role America played in Indochina right to the end. That role...