Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began right at the San Francisco airport. There he encountered two Vietnamese students who pressed on him the names of 20 relatives trying to get out of the homeland. Aboard a plane from Hong Kong to Saigon, his seatmate was a Mrs. Xuan, who was attempting to get out some of her own Vietnamese relatives. She and Mills joined forces, and in a frantic two days in Saigon they rounded up 16 of her kin as well as the 20 relatives of the two students from San Francisco and five of Mills' old friends. He also took...
...them in solitary confinement, Mindszenty was released by freedom fighters in the 1956 uprising, but the arrival of Soviet troops force him to flee to the American legation in Budapest. Citing what he regarded as his duty as prince primate and as a patriot to remain in his homeland, Mindszenty stayed there for 15 years, writing, studying, and celebrating mass daily. He resisted the Vatican's pleas that the he leave until in 1971 a detente-minded President Nixon joined Pope Paul VI in asking him to leave. An embittered Mindszenty surrendered, entering into exile in Vienna...
...last images of the war: U.S. Marines with rifle butts pounding the fingers of Vietnamese who tried to claw their way into the embassy compound to escape from their homeland. An apocalyptic carnival air?some looters wildly driving abandoned embassy cars around the city until they ran out of gas; others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries on her head and another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters profligately tossed overboard from...
...retinue are fixing to stay. He is negotiating to buy a $103,000 two-story, four-bedroom home in Mariner's Cove (pop. 400), an upper-middle-class suburb east of Honolulu. He should have no trouble paying off a mortgage. On the day before he left his homeland, the National Bank of Cambodia reportedly asked Manhattan's Irving Trust Co., with which it has a correspondent relationship, to pay $1 million to the order of Lon Nol. Irving Trust has neither confirmed nor denied the allegation...
...property for us during that historic struggle." President Ford will proclaim over and over again as he did Friday night in Boston, taking care to get correct the name of the battle site and the heroes involved. "Let us be true to ourselves--to our heritage and our homeland--and we will never then be false to any people or nation," he will conclude as he did in the pulpit of Old North Church, and then the whole string of motorcars, mobile kitchens, security units, press cars, and speechwriters vans will once again grind into motion, moving to its rendezvous...