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None of the children orphaned by the Communists' latest drive were being adopted-yet. They were still pushing on to Saigon or, in a very few cases, just beginning to be brought into the capital's crowded orphanages. There are, however, some 1.5 million other orphans already in the South, the products of years of war. The great majority are cared for by relatives or neighbors. But some 40,000 children-many of them outcasts because they are racially mixed offspring of long-departed G.I. fathers-have not even informal families or much of a future in Viet...
Such explanations still left a sizable number who were clearly running to escape Communist rule, as did some 900,000 Vietnamese in 1954 after the country was partitioned at the 17th parallel. That earlier exodus was organized and dominated by Catholics and anti-Communists and was encouraged by the Saigon regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. There was a great deal of propaganda at the time, and some not so subtle rumor mongering. Father Nguyen Dinh Thi, a priest who was part of that flight but who now lives in Paris, claims that some superstitious Catholic peasants were told that...
...future so shaky, the seven church-related and other private U.S. adoption agencies in the country tried to speed the emigration process. A breakthrough came when Edward Daly, the bluff president of World Airways (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) arranged with the U.S.'s Friends of All Children agency in Saigon to fly 450 orphans to the U.S. Daly has long been a benefactor of Vietnamese orphanages and offered to pay for the flight himself. But Saigon-based officials of the U.S. Agency for International Development told Friends of All Children that Daly's DC-8 would be unsafe...
...week's end under the auspices of several agencies; the Holt International Children's Service planned to evacuate hundreds more this week. Mrs. Betty Tisdale of Columbus, Ga., a former associate of the legendary Dr. Thomas Dooley and mother of five adopted Vietnamese girls, left for Saigon to bring back 400 children from the orphanage she had helped found. Mrs. Tisdale received permission from Army Secretary Howard Callaway to house them temporarily at Fort Benning...
Outside the U.S., the London Daily Mail chartered a Boeing 707 to transport 150 orphans from Saigon. The Australian air force ferried out 212 more, who headed to Sydney, and 63 children were sent to adoption in Canada. At week's end a West German agency was still negotiating with the Saigon government to take out 50 orphans...