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...home, like parentage, must be legitimized through love; otherwise, it is only a fact of geography or biology. Most immigrants to America found their love of their old homes betrayed. Whether Ireland starved them, or Nazi Germany persecuted them, or Viet Nam drove them into the sea, they did not really abandon their countries; their countries abandoned them. In America, they found the possibility of a new love, the chance to nurture new selves...
...easy. Successive waves of immigration differ, of course, and a refugee from wartime Europe does not have the same experiences as a refugee from postwar Viet Nam 40 years later. But all immigrants have certain things in common, and all know the classic, opposite impulses: to draw together in protective enclaves where through churches, clubs, cafes, newspapers, the old culture is fiercely maintained; and on the other hand to rush headlong into the American mainstream, seeking to adopt indiscriminately new manners, clothes, technology and sometimes names...
...Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, the new arrivals "at the core are acting as parasites on their own people." In classic fashion they concentrate at first on shaking down local merchants. One difference, officials agree, is that the modern gang is vastly more violent and better armed than its predecessors. The Viet Ching, Vietnamese of Chinese extraction in Los Angeles, pack .357 Magnums and, occasionally, machine guns. In San Francisco, says Inspector John McKenna, "it's not uncommon to see guys carrying grenades...
Muller is one of more than 60 foreign-born staff members from 29 countries as far-flung as Australia and Bolivia, Germany and Viet Nam. Among the earliest of these new arrivals to America are Assistant Art Director Arturo Cazeneuve, from Argentina, and Layout Chief Burjor Nargolwala, from India. Both became U.S. citizens while serving in the Army during World War II. Time Inc. Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald, who contributed a two-page Essay to the issue, came from Austria in 1940 by way of France, Morocco and Portugal. Assistant Managing Editor John Elson was born in Vancouver...
...Gordon Sauter, executive vice president of the CBS Broadcast Group. Indeed, except for its length, the AIM program seems little different from -- or more troubling than -- the "editorial replies" run frequently by local stations or guest editorials on a newspaper's op-ed page. The danger is that the Viet Nam skirmish may intensify. AIM Chairman Reed Irvine is contemplating a reply to ABC's recent three-hour documentary on the nuclear threat. Says Irvine: "I'd love to do a program showing the other side of that coin...