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...fled Vietnam on April 30, 1975, the day that Saigon fell. He made his way to Washington's "Little Saigon" and launched a caustic anti-Hanoi column for the Vietnamese-language biweekly Tien Phong. For years, he castigated the Vietnamese government for, as a colleague put it, "betraying the people...
...relief." That's how Phong Nguyen describes the $4,500 in financial aid he's receiving for his junior year at the University of California at Irvine...
...newcomers do have one advantage: many are joining family members who are already established in thriving Vietnamese communities. Yen Thi Duong, 40, recently arrived in Atlanta with her daughter and two children of her brother, Duong Xuan Phong, who had settled earlier in Atlanta with his wife Nga. Yen had sailed from Viet Nam last February on a rickety boat with 60 other people. Although the Malaysians opened fire on the refugees when they first tried to land, and many were later raped or robbed, the foursome wound up safely at a camp and were allowed to immigrate to America...
...only prisoners known to have walked away from Phong Saly are five of a group of 15 Thai nationals released from Laotian jails last month as a gesture of reconciliation. They tell a grim tale of forced labor, undernourishment and disease. Said one: "We were so thin, so hungry that we even tried to roast toads. We pleaded for medicine, but the doctor wouldn't give us any. We thought we would die." Others told of three prisoners thrown into tiger cages for having killed and eaten a guard's dog; one Thai claimed that disease had killed...
...Pathet Lao's plans for Phong Saly appear to be patterned on what the Vietnamese Communists euphemistically call a "new economic zone," a remote area where primitive agriculture can absorb a large population of political exiles who are there to stay. Inmates in other parts of the Lao gulag may also be sinking some unwanted permanent roots. Many who were shipped off to re-education centers two years ago are still there, and some prisoners' wives have been warned to pack up and join their husbands if they ever want to see them again. The Pathet...