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More than 70,000 Cuban refugees have so far landed on U.S. soil, with thousands more still expected to arrive on the boats now at Mariel. Authorities opened a new refugee processing center last week at the military reservation in Indiantown Gap, Pa., to handle the spillover from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base and Arkansas' Fort Chaffee. By week's end the new camp held a capacity crowd of 20,000 and a fourth center, Camp McCoy near Sparta, Wis., opened its gates...
...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...