Word: indiantown
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...refugees' reception has varied widely. In Indiantown Gap, Pa., the idea of a refugee camp was viewed with hostility by the stolid Pennsylvania Dutch residents of Lebanon County. Within a month of the refugees' arrival, though, local sentiment changed. Volunteers offered clothing and blankets and took Vietnamese children on tours of the countryside. Eventually 420 refugees settled in the area. Less pleasant was the experience of the 42 refugees who went to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to work in a candy factory. Complaining of bad treatment, 15 or so of them left their jobs; their employer claimed that the Vietnamese...
...areas that do not have a Viet Nam-like climate. All the same, the Government's interagency task force on Indochina refugees pledges that all will be in their new homes by Dec. 31, and that meanwhile none will suffer from the fast approaching cold weather. At Indiantown Gap, Pa., one of the three remaining camps in the U.S., the Army is installing heating systems in the barracks and other buildings and is gathering winter clothing. There is also an educational program under way-to explain the phenomenon of winter to people who have never experienced...
...typical visit to small-town America. Jadot has given a speech in Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House (saying a few good words for country music), climbed aboard a corn combine during a rural-life conference in Iowa, and said Mass for Vietnamese refugees in Indiantown...
Fast action is needed. At the refugee center in Indiantown Gap, Pa., all the refugees must be moved out by early fall: the camp is not winterized. Though the other camps are located in warm climates, further delay can only demoralize the homeless Vietnamese. As TIME Correspondent Marcia Gauger reports from Indiantown Gap: "So far, despite the delays, the overcrowded conditions and the lack of privacy, most of the refugees remain unfailingly optimistic, if uncertain, about the future. They have a great dignity that must help them to endure the degrading circumstances of living in camps on handouts...
...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...