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When they arrived with their wives and children in Sutherland, Neb., last month, neither Pham Tuong Do nor Tran Van Khang was surprised by the obvious differences between the tiny (pop. 840) corn-country community and their native Can Tho, second largest city in South Viet Nam. But they were overwhelmed by their reception. Some Vietnamese refugees have been greeted in the U.S. with open hostility. Pham, Tran and their families were welcomed warmly, and with good reason. Sutherland, which is 20 miles from the nearest hospital, has been without a doctor since the town's lone physician quit...
...another matter getting any meaningful information from them." Actually, reporters have had an easier time questioning P.R.G. leaders than they had quizzing officials of the Thieu regime. General Tran Van Tra, head of the military administration for Saigon, has held several press conferences; recently Chairman Nguyen Huu Tho skillfully exchanged banter with journalists at a victory ball in Thieu's old Independence Palace...
...both the Communist victory and the birthday of Ho Chi Minh. All schools, hospitals and families displayed pictures of Ho as well as flags of the Provisional Revolutionary Government and North Viet Nam. Hanoi dispatched a prestigious delegation to take part in the festivities, including Politburo Member Le Due Tho and North Vietnamese President Ton Due Thang. Also making their first appearances in Saigon since the Communist victory were civilian leaders like non-Communist Nguyen Huu Tho, chairman of the P.R.G. Advisory Council...
...Saigon didn't give a damn for us," a Foreign Service officer stationed at the U.S. consulate in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho told TIME Correspondent William Stewart aboard the Blue Ridge. "We were promised Navy choppers, but the only thing we got was a phone call telling us there was an evacuation. Not just Vietnamese were abandoned but Americans too. The embassy was exercising no initiative, no control. We were told, 'We can't worry about Delta employees...
...Americans who wanted to get out were left behind in Viet Nam. Many escaped through their own efforts when it became clear that the official program was failing. In Can Tho, for example, notice of the evacuation only came at the very last minute. Since helicopters had been flown to Saigon or commandeered by the CIA, the consulate's American employees and a small proportion of its Vietnamese staff went by boat down the Mekong River to the coast. After six hours of futile searching for the ship that was to have met them there, they luckily chanced upon...