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...only Vietnamese refugees who are likely to find their entry into U.S. society eased by their professions. Some 300 of South Viet Nam's 1,500 physicians, including the entire staff of the Saigon University School of Medicine, have turned up in California's Camp Pendleton and other refugee centers. So have at least 60 dentists and a number of pharmacists and nurses. Many are getting a head start on resettlement because of their backgrounds...
...last been streamlined so that a large family can be screened in two or three days instead often. There are 4,600 refugees at Eglin; almost 1,200 others have already been released from there, and the flow is continuing at 120 a day. California's Camp Pendleton, with a refugee population of 16,600, releases between 300 and 400 people a day. Fort Chaffee, Ark., sends about 200 people each day from its population of more than 24,000. Yet no sooner are their bunks emptied than others arrive to replace them, with some 40,000 refugees backed...
Finding Sponsors. The three refugee camps in the continental U.S. -Eglin, California's Camp Pendleton, and Arkansas' Fort Chaffee-were showing signs of strain as the massive resettlement program ground on. The refugee population at Chaffee swelled to more than 23,000. The Army was caught short on food supplies and cut the refugees' meals to two large spoonfuls of rice with a bit of chicken and a quarter of an apple. Still, morale was good, and it improved after the army announced it would increase the food rations...
...still finding enough American sponsors to help feed, clothe and house the refugees after they leave the camps. One fear is that after the initial publicity about the refugees dies down, so will the interest of potential sponsors. Said Joseph Battaglia, head of the U.S. Catholic Conference operation at Pendleton: "Unless there's a real surge of concern by the American people, we'll still be here this time next year. I think that in six months, there will be priests pleading with their parishes to remind them that refugees are languishing in the camps...
...mother is in Camp Pendleton with two of my sisters. She says things are pretty organized there, certainly better than Guam. They were some of the last people to leave Saigon. They flew to Bangkok and there some relatives in the government helped them get out of the country. My mother wanted to go to Paris, but the decided at the last minute to come to the U.S., because she was afraid the French might return them to Vietnam. She's one of the first people they would kill. She was active in politics, a sort of link between officials...