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...sheer size and visibility of the Vietnamese influx into the U.S. at first dismayed many Americans who might have preferred to forget the Viet...
...Government has spent roughly $3.2 billion in transporting and resettling 185,000 boat people, in addition to 142,000 other Indochinese refugees and the 123,000 Vietnamese who were airlifted to the U.S. at the time of the American pullout from Viet Nam in 1975. That aid has been supplemented by scores of private voluntary agencies, such as the United States Catholic Conference, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and the International Rescue Committee, which have taken charge of the actual resettlement of the refugees...
...Some of the drama surrounding the boat people has faded and national memories are short." Meanwhile, 60,000 Vietnamese refugees are still waiting in temporary Southeast Asian camps. The rate of escape from Viet Nam has risen from an average of 3,000 a month at the end of 1979 to an average 6,500 last year, with no end in sight to the number of those ready to set sail for freedom...
...Trinhs? At first haltingly, then with increasing verve, they pour out their hopes and concerns. Says the eldest brother, Tuyen, 24: "I'll do anything for now, but some day I want to get a few acres of land and grow fruit trees as I did in Viet Nam." Tuyen is satisfied with his first job. He is stuffing feathers in down coats for a clothing manufacturer at $4.50 an hour. Brother Thanh is tinkering at home. "I found this broken television set in the garbage on the street, and I'm trying to find...
...brothers and sisters are all we have now; we will stick together as long as we possibly can." As the Trinhs sit around their table on their seven chairs, their eyes sparkle with life and good humor. Says Tuyen: "Our grandparents left China for Viet Nam, and now we, the third generation, have left for the U.S. We intend to do what our forebears did: survive...