Word: guam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife had already passed through Guam and Honolulu en route to San Francisco with a party of some 13 women and children; Mrs. Ky was staying with relatives in the Bay Area last week. Should Ky and any of his high-ranking colleagues similarly land on American shores, they would not be confounded by red tape. The Attorney General has used his "parole power" to ensure entry into the country of all Vietnamese who run a "high risk" of retaliation at the hands of the Communists. A similar provision has already enabled Cambodia's former President...
Tens of thousands of evacuees had already reached the three principal U.S. "staging areas" in the Pacific: Guam, Wake Island and Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. Others were scattered on Saipan, 250 miles from Guam, where 56 refugees landed after commandeering a South Vietnamese C130; at the U.S. naval base at Subic Bay, 110 miles from Clark, where about 6,000 were staying; and at Thailand's Utapao Airbase, where almost 3,000 Vietnamese sought refuge. Soon they would be moving on to three military bases on the U.S. mainland-Camp Pendleton, Calif., Fort Chaffee...
Under pressure from the Philippine government, the U.S. had reduced the number of refugees it was sending to Clark and designated Guam as the premier staging area in the Pacific. Worse still, Philippine officials threatened that they would arrest South Vietnamese military and government officials who were expected to arrive there at week's end aboard U.S. naval vessels: whether the Filipinos would choose to enter a U.S. base to do so remained uncertain. At the same time, U.S. authorities were coping with disgruntled American evacuees who did not fancy their lodgings and were impatient to be on their...
...Guam was not the U.S. Government's first choice. A far more convenient location was Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, where the first 10,000 evacuees from South Viet Nam were processed. But a day after the big influx began, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos let it be known that the refugees were not altogether welcome; with Manila seeking an accommodation with both Peking and Hanoi, Marcos worried about offending these potential friends. Almost immediately, those who had begun to settle into Clark's "Tent City" were hustled aboard Air Force C-141s and a chartered American...
Even with the addition of up to 50 officials from the mainland, Guam's eight-man immigration corps was simply unable to cope with the crowds. To ease the pressure, U.S. officials finally halted refugee flights to Guam for 24 hours and diverted evacuees to Wake Island, 1,500 miles farther east...