Word: guam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...notes and ask us to explain the U.S. Congress, when the evacuation is coming, and most poignantly, how they can get onto the passenger list." Following the path of some of those who managed to get out, Hong Kong Correspondent David Aikman flew to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, which was rapidly becoming a sort of Ellis Island for the Vietnamese evacuees...
...imminent Communist takeover of South Viet Nam. Before the week was out, some 30,000 refugees had been deposited in diverse havens (see following story). These included a tent city at U.S.-controlled Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines; a tin city of corrugated-roof barracks in Guam, once used by the crews of the B-52 bombers that devastated much of Indochina before Congress grounded them in August 1973; barracks at huge Travis Air Force Base in Northern California; an Evangelical church in the sere hills of Los Gatos, 50 miles south of San Francisco; a beer hall...
...temporary refuge for most of the Americans and Vietnamese evacuated from Saigon was the U.S.-administered island of Guam in the Western Pacific-"where America's day begins," as tourist brochures endlessly remind visitors. For thousands of Saigon evacuees, a curious mixture of delicate old Vietnamese ladies, Cholon Chinese, middle-aged American contractors and former Saigon bar girls, their days began last week at some extraordinary sites, among them: "Tin City," a neat compound of one-story barracks at Andersen Air Force Base, and Asan, a rusting, long-abandoned Seabee camp...
When Sergeant Shoichi Yokoi surrendered in the jungles of Guam in 1972, all Japan was excited by the emergence of "the last soldier" of World War II. Yokoi immediately became a national hero. When the second "last soldier" of World War II, Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, was found in the Philippines last March, Tokyo sent a chartered jet to bring him home. When a third last soldier was captured on the remote Indonesian island of Morotai last month, the Japanese began to show a little embarrassment. How many more aging sons of Nippon can still be fighting for the Emperor...
...only U.S. carrier serving that country; Pan Am in return will surrender all but one of its flights to France, Portugal, Spain and Morocco. Both carriers will trim their U.S.-to-London schedules. Pam Am will get most of TWA's transpacific routes to such places as Bangkok, Guam and Bombay, but will turn over to TWA its share of the heavily traveled route from the mainland U.S. to Hawaii...