Word: hmong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southeast Asia. According to the State Department, the Soviet Union was manufacturing substances with the highly toxic chemical tricothecene mycotoxin and selling it to its allies for use against "resistance fighters" in those areas of the world. In addition, the U.S. government has reports from members of the Hmong tribe in Laos who claim to have seen this chemical dropped in the form of "yellow rain" from airplanes. If these charges are correct, the Soviet Union would be in violation of two international treaties, made in 1925 and 1972. Last spring, Matthew S. Meselson, Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences, challenged...
...According to a front-page story in the Washington Post last week, Defense Intelligence Agency analysts studying satellite photographs had spotted seemingly persuasive evidence of an American prisoner-of-war camp in Laos. The Central Intelligence Agency then trained and organized a group of Laotian mercenaries-many of them Hmong hill tribesmen-who crossed the border from Thailand and got close enough to take more definitive photos on the ground. The sad conclusion, according to Defense Department Spokesman Henry Catto: "There is no evidence that would lead us to believe there are Americans being held in Laos...
...Hmong tribesmen were apparently the first secret reconnaissance force to enter Laos on behalf of the soldiers missing in action but not the first ones to try. Angered by the refusal of the Carter Administration to accept and act on the uncertain proof that Americans are being held in Southeast Asia, families of the missing raised a dozen-man commando squad of their own-an underfinanced and overaged group of veterans from the Green Berets. Their improbable training center for an operation code-named "Velvet Hammer" was an academy for cheerleaders in Leesburg, Fla., near Orlando. Their leader was retired...
...Chicago, school officials are scrambling to find teachers fluent in Hmong to deal with the children of some 2,500 Hmong tribesmen who settled there after fleeing the mountains of northern Laos. In Los Angeles an estimated two-thirds of the city's roofers are illegal aliens. In New York City, the population of refugees from El Salvador has swollen from 2,000 to 20,000 in less than three months, and the numbers are still growing...
Another possibility put forth by the Hmong is that the deaths are related to stress and depression brought on by their relocation to the U.S. Says Tou-Fu Vang, who works in a federal refugee resettlement program: "The Hmong were kings of their area in the mountains. Now they find themselves in a situation that is completely out of their control...