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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...
...long-shuttered 20-bed hospital and fixed it up as living quarters for the two families. Others donated furniture, kitchen utensils, television sets and children's toys and bicycles. All did their best to make the Vietnamese feel at home. "We are lucky to be here," Tran's wife told her new neighbors. "No," replied Mrs. Sandy Meissner, wife of Sutherland's mayor, "we are lucky to have...
...Pham and Tran are not the only Vietnamese refugees who are likely to find their entry into U.S. society eased by their professions. Some 300 of South Viet Nam's 1,500 physicians, including the entire staff of the Saigon University School of Medicine, have turned up in California's Camp Pendleton and other refugee centers. So have at least 60 dentists and a number of pharmacists and nurses. Many are getting a head start on resettlement because of their backgrounds...
...weeks that it is easy to strike up a conversation with North Vietnamese or Viet Cong soldiers, but it is 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...
...mass rally held at the gleaming presidential palace in Saigon on the 21st anniversary of the Communists' victory over the French at Dien Bien Phu, the new rulers officially introduced themselves. Chief among them was General Tran Van Tra, 57, a onetime peasant from a village near the North-South border who was head of the Viet Cong's armed forces during the war (TIME, May 5). Tra introduced the eleven-member military administration committee that will direct Saigon's return to normality. In his speech, delivered beneath a huge picture of Ho Chi Minn, Tra praised...