Word: guam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Words. In the U.S., Jadot "looks upon the whole country as his parish," a fellow bishop notes. "He has grasped the ethnic culture of Cleveland and the Chicano culture of the Southwest. He understands Guam and the problems of blacks." Jadot's casual style is in itself quite American. A few weeks after his arrival in Washington, a group of priests invited him to dinner; he accepted on condition that he could wear sports clothes. He will spend hours chatting over beers with young seminarians, or take a break from his 16-hour workday to tool...
...standing on the hot tarmac of the El Toro Marine Air Station at Santa Ana, Calif., along with 49 other Vietnamese-all waiting to board the C-141 Starlifter that would take them to Guam, the first leg of their journey back home. They were among the 2,500 refugees who have petitioned to be flown back to Viet Nam by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (1,200 have already left). Most of them, especially the single men, are returning because they want to be reunited with their families. But increasingly, those who seek repatriation reflect an unfortunate fact...
...doubt that the program can be completed before next spring. About 48,000 refugees-more than one-third of the total-have been "out-processed" to homes. Meanwhile, 62,000 still languish in four refugee camps in the U.S., and 18,000 have not yet left way stations on Guam and Wake Island...
...between 300 and 400 people a day. Fort Chaffee, Ark., sends about 200 people each day from its population of more than 24,000. Yet no sooner are their bunks emptied than others arrive to replace them, with some 40,000 refugees backed up and still to come from Guam. A fifth camp, which will eventually hold 15,000 refugees, opened last week at a military post at Indiantown Gap, Pa., to help handle the problem...
Matlovich's act was the culmination of a long personal odyssey. The son of a career Air Force sergeant, Matlovich grew up on military bases in such places as Charleston, S.C., Alaska and Guam. In 1963, after graduating from high school in England, he joined the Air Force. "I knew I was homosexual then," he says. "I had been since I was in the seventh grade...