Word: huong
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...brother they had to leave behind. But soon they were caught up in the bewildering process of resettlement. Caseworkers from the International Rescue Committee helped the Trinhs apply for Social Security cards and welfare for the four youngest teenagers: Thanh, 19; So Trung, 17; So Lan, 16; and So Huong, 14. The I.R.C. gave the Trinhs $330 for food, supplied them with winter clothing and paid their rent and utilities for two months...
Learning English is the Trinh family's priority. The four teen-agers all attend public school in Brooklyn. They still feel estranged. Only one American girl in Ditmas Junior High School has tried to make friends with So Huong, for example. Says the ninth-grader: "I don't know how to talk to anyone yet, and I don't know how to do my homework." After school or work, the whole family spends long hours poring over their copy of Access to English as a Second Language...
...that he will not continue the dialogue unless the present government resigns and the U.S. withdraws its forces. They are employing the same tactics that the Viet Cong used in Viet Nam when they said they would negotiate only if Thieu stepped down. When Thieu stepped down, they said Huong was not eligible; and then when "Big" Minh came, there was nothing left to negotiate...
...RESIGNATION. Huong, under pressure from U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin and Saigon leaders to resign, capitulated at about 4:30 Sunday afternoon, saying that he would transfer the presidency to the "personality" chosen by South Viet Nam's legislature?and "the sooner the better." Hours later, the National Assembly voted 134 to 2 to give the job to Big Minh...
Later that day, Big Minh formally took power from the feeble Huong in a ceremony at the presidential palace. "We sincerely want reconciliation," he told the unseen Provisional Revolutionary Government. "You clearly know that. Reconciliation demands that each element of the nation respect the other's right to live." Minh proposed an immediate cease-fire "as a manifestation of our good will, and to quickly end the soldiers' and people's sufferings...