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...Americans don't even realize it because it's just part of your lives. But we feel so free here, and we have peace of mind," says Dang Thuy Nguyen, TIME's former office manager in Saigon, who is now one of our telex operators in New York. Dang is one of TIME's four Vietnamese employees who were evacuated with their families during the last days of the Indochina war. All together, 37 Vietnamese sponsored by TIME have come to the U.S. Now living in Connecticut, New Jersey and California, they are learning to cope...
...know how I got here," said the elderly Vietnamese with the straggly Ho Chi Minn beard. "When my wife and I were evacuated from the Central Highlands, we thought we were going to Saigon. Instead, we ended up in America. It seems like a nice place, but what would an old man like me do here...
...followed their 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, the major foreign policy crisis of Brezhnev's tenure. It is not often today that Moscow's diplomats have thrown in their faces the challenge, "What about Czechoslovakia?" Somehow, the long, vain American attempt to prop up an unpopular government in Saigon made much of the world forget the swift Soviet crushing of a popular government in Prague. One by one in the Brezhnev years, Soviet-aided North Viet Nam, East Germany and Cuba have gained international acceptance. True, Moscow was a loser in Chile, but the Kremlin has reason...
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...
...rural towns with names like Ponca, Weeping Water and Loup City. The Federal Government plans to settle some Vietnamese general practitioners on Indian reservations. American physicians have begun heeding an appeal by the American Medical Association to take on refugees as assistants. One Chapel Hill, N.C., physician hired Saigon Pediatrician Nhieu Phan Van sight unseen...