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...borders. At week's end 14,000 refugees had reached their new homes, usually with relatives who were already U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Another 34,000 were quartered temporarily at the three resettlement centers: Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, Fort Chaffee in Arkansas and Camp Pendleton in California (see following story). The remaining 67,000 refugees were still at or en route to U.S. bases on Guam, Wake Island and the Philippines...
...next stop is one of three military bases in the U.S., where they wait for sponsorship in America. At one of those bases, Southern California's sprawling Camp Pendleton, Marines have thrown up a vast tent city amid the tough green scrub and yellow-mustard weeds. The Marines, who displayed superb organization in setting up the camp, rounded up three blankets for every refugee and issued each a hooded field jacket. The refugees organized a committee responsible for small personal needs, medical services and English-language courses. There was something hauntingly familiar about a Marine captain's remark...
...moment, the Pendleton refugees were those drawn from the social and intellectual elite. In one of the eight refugee compounds, there were no fewer than 50 medical doctors among the 900 inhabitants. Some had worked for U.S. firms that arranged their evacuation. Others, like Teacher Van Ming Minh, escaped with the help of women who were either married to or going steady with American officials...
...would be to restore farm production so that Cambodia might be "completely independent of all foreigners." Meanwhile, the ousted President of the fallen Cambodian government, Marshal Lon Nol, was quietly adjusting to a new life with his family in a $103,000 bungalow in suburban Honolulu. At Camp Pendleton, Calif., the man who replaced him briefly as head of state, Saukham Khoy, 60, disclosed that Lon Nol had been paid $1 million by his own government to leave the country on April 1. "It was a good buy," Saukham Khoy insisted last week. In Hawaii, Lon Nol had no comment...
Despite the screening in Guam, some obviously unqualified refugees reached the U.S. Parts of Pendleton resembled Saturday night in Saigon, as bar girls clad in tight-fitting slacks flirted with Marines. An Air Force officer admitted that the eight women accompanying him were not, strictly speaking, dependents. "I'm not married to any of them, and I'm not related to any of them either," he said. "I met them when I was stationed in Nam, and I felt I had to get them out. The authorities must have known I was lying, but they realized...