Word: shelterer
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...help. So many proposals poured in that volunteer agencies helping the State Department relocate the refugees had trouble keeping pace. The agencies are charged with weeding out undesirable sponsors, such as families looking for a cheap maid or old men seeking young girls. Sponsors are asked to provide food, shelter and clothing until the refugee is selfsupporting. Somewhat optimistically, Brown expects all the refugees to be settled in their new homes by the end of July...
...week's end several planeloads of evacuees had reached the U.S. mainland. The Christian Church in Los Gates, south of San Francisco, suddenly found itself providing food and shelter for some 150 Vietnamese. In Mount Angel, Ore. (pop. 2,200), townspeople had expected to take care of 40 crippled Vietnamese children. But five yellow school buses disgorged an additional 133 refugees, including some adults. Cots were quickly installed in the Oktoberfest beer hall...
...Miami, were the best thing that could have happened to the orphans. Abel diverted the boys with stories, inventing characters like Rocky Head, Tomato Nose and a dog named Hungry Soup Bone. He also gave them fierce support. "When the police came at night to take us to the shelter," Michael remembers, "Abel told them to come back in the morning. When they insisted, he said, 'You'll take these kids over my dead body.' They came back in the morning...
...complicate the defense of Saigon and probably bring countless infiltrators in its wake, the government tried to seal off the capital. The road leading from Vung Tau was blockaded, and plans were afoot to resettle refugees in the Mekong Delta. But little was being done to provide food and shelter for the throngs at Vung Tau or even regroup the disbanded soldiers when they arrived...
...same time, however, Congressmen found that most constituents sympathized with the refugees and wanted the U.S. to aid them with food, medicine and shelter. Democrat Edward Koch of New York sensed among his constituents "great anguish about the condition of the refugees and a feeling that we have to do something to rescue those people who want to leave the areas being occupied by Communists...