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...refugees leave urgent personal messages about themselves in graffiti all around the camp-on the fences leading into the huts and immigration tents, on the sides of the shower stalls, even in spray paint across their tent flaps. Said one sign: "Tran Thi Hong da di California" (Tran Thi Hong gone to California...
After their ordeal, in the heat and uncertainty of life at Guam's Tent City, most of the refugees were only exhausted and played out. Like refugees anywhere, they spent their time sleeping, lying on their bunks, wandering aimlessly around the deserted airstrip that is now the main street of Tent City, always waiting. On their release for the States, a process that takes at least four or five days, the Vietnamese are left on the roadside to wait for buses to their flights, families sharing lines of cots stacked like beach chairs, sitting for hours under the scorching...
...next stop is one of three military bases in the U.S., where they wait for sponsorship in America. At one of those bases, Southern California's sprawling Camp Pendleton, Marines have thrown up a vast tent city amid the tough green scrub and yellow-mustard weeds. The Marines, who displayed superb organization in setting up the camp, rounded up three blankets for every refugee and issued each a hooded field jacket. The refugees organized a committee responsible for small personal needs, medical services and English-language courses. There was something hauntingly familiar about a Marine captain's remark...
...camp had one incongruous celebrity: former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who was billeted in a tent with 15 other refugees. Still sporting his familiar lavender ascot and displaying a forlorn jauntiness, Ky stood in long chow lines with the others, complained about the cold nights, and asked visiting reporters for warm underwear. He spoke vaguely of seeking an American sponsor to set him up as a farmer "in Arkansas or San Antonio," or of finding a new life as a cab driver. "For us," he said, "the only hope is that we shall return. When Hitler occupied Europe, people like...
...suddenly with considerable fervor, and for a variety of often contradictory reasons, all over the country. Senator McGovern, the 1972 presidential peace candidate, says: "I think the Vietnamese are better off in Viet Nam, including the orphans." The manager of a John Birch Society bookstore near the new refugee tent city at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida is afraid of "tropical diseases floating around." Right-wingers worry that there might be Communists among the refugees; those who opposed the war suspect that too many are corrupt generals and profiteering businessmen who were able to push or bribe their...