Word: pham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last spring, many Americans were deeply troubled. Would the refugees aggravate the bloated unemployment rate? Did they carry exotic diseases? How could they possibly fit in? Last week the 100,000th Indochinese refugee was quietly relocated-and the nation hardly noticed. Officially, at least, he was Pham Phu Quoc, 38, a former South Vietnamese army officer who was settled near Racine, Wis., last week with his wife and their eight children...
When they arrived with their wives and children in Sutherland, Neb., last month, neither Pham Tuong Do nor Tran Van Khang was surprised by the obvious differences between the tiny (pop. 840) corn-country community and their native Can Tho, second largest city in South Viet Nam. But they were overwhelmed by their reception. Some Vietnamese refugees have been greeted in the U.S. with open hostility. Pham, Tran and their families were welcomed warmly, and with good reason. Sutherland, which is 20 miles from the nearest hospital, has been without a doctor since the town's lone physician quit...
...Pham and Tran are not the 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...
...while Saigon was being shelled, one Vietnamese army colonel picked up his wife and daughter, pirated a small speedboat still in the racks at the city's Club Nautique, took them down the Mekong River and out to sea, where they were rescued. His daughter's husband, Pham Van Tinh, a Vietnamese air force pilot, escaped separately from Tan Son Nhut airbase. Under heavy fire, he made a dash for a twin-engine cargo plane, shot the lock off the door with his pistol and flew into Thailand without maps or direction, following the shoreline. Tinh...
...will happen to me, only what has happened to me," mourned Hoan Lac, 39, a psychotherapist, who cried softly as she rocked her two-year-old child. "I have many friends in this country, but I have lost their addresses. I had to leave Viet Nam in 50 minutes." Pham An Thanh, 40, once a prosperous marketing manager for a paper and sugar distributing company in Viet Nam, fought back the tears as he noted that his current net worth is $4. "You know," he said in broken English as he fingered his worn trousers, "when I go, I forgot...