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Rose's story is just as stark. Left motherless at twelve, she found herself successively at the mercy of a drunken father, the Southwold servants' hall, and a lecherous young master. Orphan Sarah's beginnings were livelier - and even more unpleasant. As a girl she is saved from impending rape in Whitechapel, but the man who saved her turned out to be a perverted missionary. By contrast, the weekly blend of world crisis and teapot tragedy at Eaton Place - where all the books end - seems calm indeed...
...this process, it might help to reverse the old adage and treat this defeat not as an orphan but as the product of a thousand parents. Substantial errors have been made in Southeast Asia since the 1940s, including errors made by the present Administration and Congress. Evidently, we could not agree on the list of errors. We can let historians occupy themselves contentiously with that sport for many years to come. But if we can talk and act with a certain humility about past assessments and policies, we might turn an important corner and get on as a national family...
...mark. Inevitably, the issue became politicized. To some, the phrase "Operation Babylift" became associated with a government policy less noble than the words implied. Cynical suspicion mounted that the Administration was seeking to build political capital, a view bolstered by the sight of the President cradling a newly arrived orphan. "Seeing Jerry Ford walking down the runway with that baby in his arms, I wanted to throw a shoe at the TV," said Mrs. Blair Cooter, the mother of a nine-month-old Vietnamese boy adopted last year...
...past three weeks, 1,000 Americans, including businessmen and diplomats, have fled Saigon. Some left on commercial flights, which are booked solid through the end of April; others went as aides on chartered orphan flights. But for those who must stay until the last possible moment-probably around 1,000 key personnel and journalists-the exit may be dangerous...
...mass retreat might mean, in some cases, spiriting away tots whose parents are still alive. In addition, many Vietnamese view rather dimly the Western concept of adoption. They have a strong sense of cultural identity and do not often accept the common (and chauvinistic) American view that a Vietnamese orphan can do no better than come to the U.S. to be raised as an American...