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...Force flew out another 100 or so Americans, their Vietnamese dependents and other Vietnamese whose lives might be endangered by the imminent Communist takeover of South Viet Nam. Before the week was out, some 30,000 refugees had been deposited in diverse havens (see following story). These included a tent city at U.S.-controlled Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines; a tin city of corrugated-roof barracks in Guam, once used by the crews of the B-52 bombers that devastated much of Indochina before Congress grounded them in August 1973; barracks at huge Travis Air Force Base...
...after the big influx began, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos let it be known that the refugees were not altogether welcome; with Manila seeking an accommodation with both Peking and Hanoi, Marcos worried about offending these potential friends. Almost immediately, those who had begun to settle into Clark's "Tent City" were hustled aboard Air Force C-141s and a chartered American Airlines 747 for the 1,600-mile flight to Guam. Soon C-141s were arriving directly from Saigon almost every half-hour with as many as 190 passengers aboard...
Paul Walkins, a landlord and member of the tent board said last night he thought the "vast Majority" of Tenants would pay the increase...
...What a Tent! The drop-style production mounted for Sills' debut is both attractive and sensibly economical ($175,000, cheap by current prices). The sets are fashioned after La Scala 1969, except that the second act is set in Maometto's tent rather than on his ship. And what a tent it is-opulent red carpets and ottomans, hanging lamps, each big enough to contain a man, table lamps that burn with a molten glow...
...away and live in a tent with Maometto, which is pretty good stuff for opera. Then Neocle shows up in chains - sound familiar? - and says, 'Listen, honey, you gotta go back to your father and your country; they're doing terrible things to all the virgins...