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    "ocrText": "The original documents are located in Box 9, folder \"Indochina Refugees - General (1)\" of\nthe Theodore C. Marrs Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\nCopyright Notice\nThe copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of\nphotocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Gerald Ford donated to the United\nStates of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections.\nWorks prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public\ndomain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to\nremain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid\ncopyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library.\n69 Rent\nFORD is LIBRARY QERALD\n1/2\n69\n20- g.v\n15-\n10\nDm Watner- 15 Businen\n10\nJohn Vutum - 20 Lator\n104\nOriginal Rodenr fist -\n10\n114\nFish\nbud\nErlten\nVolage\nloten\nBinger\nCare\nKing Thank\naso\npudx\nDAR\ngants\nPell\nKensedy\nVory\nFung\nM\nAmbassater\n-\nDean Brom\nWath the -\nwhe\n-\ninglish\nEnich von Marbod\n-\n4\nModenton +\n2.\n-\nTalking Prints -priscelent-\nPoling splamnutter\nShip\nAffirmPoling\nRefegan,\nBiesterne\nDigitized from Box 9 of the Theodore C. Marrs Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nFite\nWASHINGTON\nMAY F. Refugee\nshat before benecin\nthis the\nnutry\nhas\nDRAFT\nDear John Paul\n:\nFORD & GERALD LIBRARY\nI was very pleased to note your help and support in\nthe opening and development of the refugee facility\nat Fort Chaffee. It is to the great credit of the\npeople of Arkansas, and their representatives, that\nthis new wave of immigrants is being welcomed in\nsuch good fashion.\nAs you know, I have formed an Advisory Committee\non Refugees. On May 20, the Committee visited\nFort Chaffee and returned with an appreciation\nof the combined and many efforts that go on round the\nclock. The task, of course, is to resettle these new\nAmericans\nas quickly and effectively as possible.\nIt is very satisfying to see the good work\nbeing done and I want you to know that I personally\nappreciate your continued support and cooperation.\nI know that your counsel is especially valuable and\nhope you will be incontact with Ted Marrs of my\nstaff and John Eisenhower, Chairman of the Committee.\nBest regards\nSincerely,\nThe Hon.\nGerald R. Ford\nRep. John Paul Hammerschmidt\nCongress of the United States\nMay 21, 1975\nDear John Paul:\nThank you for your telegram of May 13 expressing\nyour view that prompt and decisive measures be\ntaken to recover the SS MAYAGUEZ and its crew.\nThe seizure of the ship was clearly an act of\npiracy and when I had reviewed all of the facts\nwith Secretary Schlesinger, Secretary Kissinger,\nand the National Security Council, I decided that\nstrong decisive action was required. In my own\nmind, I knew that the American people and most\nmembers of Congress would support my decision.\nYour telegram is indicative of that support.\nThank you.\nWith kind personal regards,\nSincerely,\nJERRY FORD\nThe Honorable John Paul Hammerschmidt\nHouse of Representatives\nWashington, D. C. 20515\nGRF:RW:em\nAn Lac Orphans'\n\"Mothers Day\"\n\"Whenever my spirits were unusually low, I\nwould get into my jeep after sundown and drive\nto the An Lac Orphanage where there was always\nlaughter.\"\n- Dr. Tom Dooley\nQERALD FORD LIBRARY\nMadame Ngai Receives Kisses from\nAn Lac Orphans at Ft. Benning, Ga.\nFor 16 years, Mrs. Betty Tisdale has\nbeen loving and mothering the children\nof An Lac by long distance. Now she's\nbringing them home.\nLeft orphans by the decades of war in\nVietnam, the children have been living\nin the orphanage founded by the late\nDr. Tom Dooley and Madam Vu Thi\nNgai in 1954.\nHer love affair with An Lac began in\n1959 when she contacted the 34-year-old\nDooley at a New York hospital to volun-\nteer as a secretary.\nAfter his tragic death from cancer in\n1961, she decided to vacation in the lands\nDooley loved and served. She repeated\nthese visits annually in 1966 she stopped\nat An Lac, which means \"Happy Place.\"\nIt was to the children here that Mrs.\nTisdale became known as Coy My -\nMiss America - and Co Ngoan - Miss\nSweet. She did not forget the children\nand upon her return to America founded\nthe An Lac Orphanage Inc.\nLedger-Enquirer\nBetty and An Lac's Children\n\"An Lac\" Orphanage, Inc., 116 Nguyen Dinh Chièù, Saigon\n/ shall pass through\nRoute 1, Box 804\nWhitesville Road\nColumbus, Georgia 31904\nthis world but once.\nIf therefore,\nTelephone:\n404-323-1616\n404-323-7771\nthere be any kindness\n/ can show,\nor any good thing\n/ can do,\nlet me do it now;\nlet me not defer it\nMOTHER'S DAY 1975\nor neglect it,\nfor / shall not pass\nthis way again.\nDear wonderful friend of An Lac\nBOARD OF DIRECTORS\nAs I try to write to you on this particular day, I am filled with mixed emotions of\nHonorary Chairman\nNorman Cousins\njoy, tears, happiness and sorrow. Perhaps you will understand these emotions as I relate\na bit of what has happened to An Lac\nto the children\nto\nMme.\nNgai\nand to me!\nChairman\nPatrick D. Tisdale, M.D.\nExactly one month ago, I arrived at Fort Benning, Georgia with 219 children from\nAn Lac - that was the happiness part - but I had to leave 150 children - and Mine. Ngai\nVice Chairman\nMrs. Natahli Paine\nbehind, then. Perhaps I had better start at the beginning. Through your help in the past\nyears - or even just recently - we, all of us - had been able to be a part of helping the\nPresident\nMrs. Betty Moul Tisdale\nchildren of An Lac have a better life. We were able to accomplish much in the years\nsince Dr. Tom Dooley died. The children had better food, medical care and even showers,\nVice President\ntoilets and kitchens and dispensaries - but most of all, they had US they\nknew\nwe\nloved\nMiss Ina Balin\nMrs. David Brockman\nthem even though they were \"half a world away.\"\nMiss Norine Casey\nJohn Kopp\nOn April 1st, as I was sitting at my desk trying to answer your letters and send out the\nWayne McKinney, M.D.\nreceipts, the news and the television account of what was happening to Vietnam became\nJohn J. O'Leary\nominous. Suddenly, I knew that I could not sit by and not even try to save our children. I\nH. Stephen Spahn\nMrs. Frances Thompson\ndidn't know how I could do it - or whether it was even possible, but I knew I had to try.\nPhilip Woerner, M.D.\nMy first thought was to charter a plane and the staggering cost of one $257,000\nTreasurer\ndidn't deter me at all. Tom Dooley would find a way. But the news became more bleak and\nWilliam A. Lyman\nthe time became NOW, and I found that if I could be allied in a way with one of the seven\nSecretary\nrecognized agencies I could use the government airlift and fly the children back on govern-\nMrs. Lorna Stevens\nment\nplanes\nso the closest agency was the Pearl S. Buck agency and I asked them if I\ncould use their name to help our children - and they said I could. Nothing signed no strings\nBOARD OF ADVISORS\nJohn McL. Adams, M.D.\nattached and I was on my way! I took with me a very dear friend of An Lac and Tom\nMrs. Melanie Barber\nDooley, Dr. Wayne McKinny, and an Army Captain, Ed Bensman. Ed spoke Vietnamese and\nMiss Eileen Beck\nwas one of the First Infantry Division - Big Red One who had adopted An Lac many\nDavid Brockman\nAmbassador Ellsworth Bunker\nyears ago. Ina Balin, our Vice President, flew out from the Coast and arrived one day\nSenator Quentin N. Burdick\nearlier. My own dear family of ten children and husband, Dr. Pat, remained at home to\nMrs. Maureen Burke\nhandle the calls and details of \"what if the children do arrive\". In answer to that, we called\nMiss Melinda Burton\nMr. & Mrs. Donald Calaman\nour dear friends of the First Infantry - General Orwin Talbott and General DePuy - and\nMrs. Rosalie Carper\nthrough them, Secretary of the Army Bo Calloway gave me permission to bring the children\nMrs. Onolee Coffey\nto Fort Benning if I could get them out!\nBob Considine\nMrs. Norman Cousins\nBut\ncould IP?? Not being one of the \"seven recognized agencies\" for adoption,\nMr. & Mrs. Richard Darragh\nMalcolm Dooley\nit did not seem likely, but that would not keep me from trying.\nMiss Teresa Gallagher\nMrs. Kathleen Gassaway\nI got as far as the Philippines when they bombed the palace in Saigon and we were held\nSenator & Mrs. J. K. Javits\nup there for 14 hours - making my arrival in Saigon that much later. But, I did arrive\nMiss Sharon Jenkins\nwith Wayne and Ed and there was Miss Thuc and Mme. Ngai waiting for me - had been\nMrs. Vern Jones\nMr. & Mrs. Robert Kaufman\nwaiting for 14 hours. We rushed to An Lac and amid cries of \"Co Betty\" \"Co Betty\" from\nMr. & Mrs. Mortimer Levitt\nthe children - with hugs and kisses and lots of baby cuddling - I almost felt that there\nAmb. & Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge\nreally wasn't a war and I was there again \"just to be with them.\" But I soon realized that\nJohn O. Marsh\nBen Navarro\nmy time was short - the North Vietnamese were just 25 miles from Saigon and we were in\nWinfield Niblo, PhD.\ndanger. Mme. Ngai had already had Miss Thuc make up the list of ALL the children, plus\nFred F. Petmecky, M.D.\nthe domestic help and herself. Knowing Mme. Ngai, if she put herself on the list I knew\nCongressman Ogden R. Reid\nthat we had little time - and that she was in danger. Early the next morning, Ina and I\nMiss Elizabeth Rutledge\nMiss Margaret Rutledge\nrushed to Dr. Pham Quang Dan's office - he was the Minister of Social Welfare. He re-\nMr. & Mrs. James Skrine\nmembered me from my February visit and quickly insisted that I tell him of my plans. I\nMr. & Mrs. Edward A. Stevens\nshowed him the list and he sadly shook his head. \"No\" and my heart fell. But it was \"No\"\nMrs. Richard Thibaut, Jr.\nSenator Milton R. Young\nto all those over ten years old and \"No\" to Mme. Ngai. We sat there stunned. We\npleaded with him, but at that time - April 8 and there was still hope that America would\nhelp - that perhaps South Vietnam would survive. His reasoning for Mme. Ngai was that\nshe was very important and to have her leave with the children would panic the other orphanages and there would\nbe no control. As a special favor to me - knowing I wasn't an agency he still consented for the children under ten,\nand did not insist that prior adoption papers be filed. This was the first and only time he gave this permission. He knew\nof our work - he knew that we - you and I - were primarily interested in helping the children of Vietnam to become\nbetter citizens of the future of Vietnam. We were not and never ever were in the \"adoption\" or exporting of their nation's\nfuture. For this, he was extremely grateful.\nWe rushed back to An Lac and Miss Thuc and Mr. Tin revised the list - over 200 children. All night long, Ina and\nI made identification tags and bracelets\nand the next morning took the new list to Dr. Dan - within minutes, he stamp-\ned it and we were off to the USAID office. Mr. Ruoff helped us make plans for the airlift. I asked him if we could go\non Saturday (this was Thursday) and he said we would have to leave the next morning at 11 A.M. We would have two\nC-141 planes and we had to provide escorts. We agreed to everything and anything and rushed to the Embassy to sign\nmore papers and work throughout the night tagging all the children. The next morning - with little or no sleep - the\nchildren bathed - and the INK RAN ON THE I.D. Bracelets. Frantically we had to redo them with radio, TV and\nnewsmen on our backs. I can't tell you the nervous state we were in - and all through it, Mme. Ngai sat - tears stream-\ning down her cheeks - still looking as regal and beautiful as ever - but knowing that she was doomed to die under\nCommunism. I didn't know then that she had bought poison to take.\nIn the maddest rush you have ever seen, four bus loads of children left to take the first plane. Ed Bensman went with\nthem. They were most of all the toddlers and five, six and seven year olds. Then, two hours later, we took the babies -\n67 of them and the older children. Just as I was to get on the plane - Ambassador Martin called the airport - to wish me\nwell, to thank me and to make one last plea for help. To me, he was a great man - one with a heart - with love for the\nchildren and the people of Vietnam. He thanked Senator Javits for helping me, and the other Senators and Congressmen\n- Nunn, Brinkley, Morgan and the hosts of others - for they all did. And then, the babies - in boxes - were strapped\nto the floor of this huge cargo plane and we were off. Ina, Wayne, Ed and myself - we did it - we evacuated An Lac\nof every child under ten. (I must admit, some of the ten year olds \"looked\" a little older but I won't tell, will you ???)\nFrom Clark Air Force Base - where the children were bathed and clean clothes arranged - we flew to Los Angeles.\nI do want to say that the Air Force - from Saigon to Clark in the Philippines - helped more than you can ever imagine.\nTo see a big Air Force sergeant feeding not one, but two babies at one time, is a sight to behold - and then the Navy\ntook over in Los Angeles. Pat was there with the United Airlines plane he had to charter for $21,000. And we whisked the\nchildren and babies over to it for the last part of our journey - to Fort Benning. Unfortunately, about 38 of our babies\nwere kept in 8 different hospitals in Los Angeles. I say unfortunately, because we had doctors aboard the World Airways\nplane from Clark to Los Angeles and it was not all necessary, but the local doctors did not listen to the doctors that were\nwith the children across the Pacific and hence the reason for so many of the babies being kept out there.\nI suppose I should keep this short, but to all of you who have helped An Lac for so many years - I would want to\ntalk to you all in person - in fact, I would want to write each and every one of you a personal, personal letter, but at\nthe moment, I feel I owe you this type letter first.\nTo say that my arrival - with Ina Balin - at Fort Benning - Saturday night, April 12 was the most gratifying mo-\nment of my life - 219 children - within two and one half days - the children of our beloved An Lac, is of course, an\nunderstatement. I wish all of you could have been with me at that moment. I think all of Columbus, Georgia was there\n- including my own sweet ten children and I knew then, as I have always known, that Tom Dooley was my guiding\nspirit, my link with God - that we were in America - the land of the free! My beloved country.\nStaff Photo Lawrence Smith\nActress Ina Balin (L), Mrs. Tisdale Hold Babies on Arrival at Ft. Benning\nThe children were taken to Wilbur School and each given a volunteer to help them, to love them. The school was\nchanged over to another An Lac. The Army was there, and all was well with the world. Only one flaw and that was the\nPearl Buck Foundation who had harrassed me across the Pacific and even now at Fort Benning, knowing that I had had\nno sleep for four days, insisted on \"taking custody\" of the children. Since Mme. Ngai had released them to me, I would\ncertainly not give them to any organization - especially after their tactics and background. So, in the next four days after\narrival I had to legally fight them off and the U.S. Government sent a lawyer and representative and it was legally agreed\nthat the Pearl S. Buck Foundation would be absolved of all custody of the children. I then invited the Tressler Lutheran\nAdoption Agency of York, Pennsylvania to help in the placement of the children.\nIn the meantime - my heart and thoughts were with Mme. Ngai - how could I get her out ???I got a call through\nto Ambassador Martin. His secretary listened and said she would see that Mme. Ngai, Miss Thuc and Mr. Tin (orphans\nwho had been with her in North Vietnam and were still at An Lac, helping) would be on the evacuation list. Would I\nContiuned on Back Page\nsend\nher\na\ncable\nI did, and also sent one to Mme. Ngai. And then, nothing\nI made plans then to fly to Saigon to\nget Mme. Ngai - but I called again. Don't come - this from the Embassy - and I became frantic - for if I flew over,\nshe might be on her way out. So another day passed, then on April 27 at 5 A.M. I received a call - from Guam - it was\nMr. Tin - Mme. Ngai was there - safe - could I come to get them PPP. I was on a plane at 1:45 P.M. that day and\narrived in Guam at 3 A.M. on Tuesday - Guam time.\nGuam was quiet that early Tuesday morning - and I finally found Mme. Ngai with the help of a lovely Navy wife,\nPeggy Dockins. She had located Mme. Ngai for me and drove me to the refugee camp. Dawn was streaking through\nwhen\nI\narrived the camp was awakening - I climbed the steps of an old warehouse building - and there on the\nsecond floor - on an Army cot - sat beautiful Mme. Ngai - holding out her arms to me. I could not believe that I had\nfound her - that we - you and I would see her again. A hole had been cut out of the side of the building for air.\nBreakfast was baked beans, hot dogs and rice. But not one person complained - it was a beautiful sight. I immediately\nstarted my talks with the Immigration people. No - they were not \"blood relatives\" - which meant that I had to wait\nfor them because that put them at the bottom of the lists - so I just said I would go over his head and that I did! Within\n18 hours we were at the airport - with a couple of hundred other refugees - on our way HOME.\nGuam - Hawaii - Camp Pendleton - Long Beach Naval Station - Los Angeles - Atlanta - and Columbus, Georgia.\nMme. Ngai was in her new home. She is now here, living with us - same address. She says we have given her her second\nlife. A long time ago, in 1954 - Dr. Tom Dooley saved her and helped her get from Haiphong, North Vietnam to Saigon,\nSouth Vietnam - and now - here she is - half a world away - in our country.\nIt is a beautiful story - perhaps it is not ended yet. One hundred and fifty children were left behind. A list of those\nchildren was given to another orphanage. An orphanage who had a possibility of getting on a ship. All the ships have\nnot arrived - will yet another miracle take place - perhaps we shall see the rest of the children of An Lac - it is up to\nGod - our prayers may again be answered.\nWe want to have Mme. Ngai, Thuc and Tin live with us - but be independent. That is why we want to buy her her\nown little place and put it right here in our front yard. An Lac - in Saigon - is no more. I will not be raising funds\nanymore. I am closing my files after 14 years. I will not need your help. I can only say that without you, nothing would\nhave been possible. Tom Dooley used to say that he was the hands - YOU were the heart, and that was how it always\nwas. To say thank you to friends is awfully hard to do - for thank you just doesn't seem like enough. Know only that\nyou are beautiful, loyal and true - and that we love you very, very much. Don't completely forget us - and if you can, you\nmight want to write to Mme. Ngai on special occasions. She has no income at all and if you want to help her now and\nthen, please do. Our home is open for visits from you. All I can say now is - the circle is complete, from Tom Dooley,\nto Mme. Ngai, to me to you God love you forever.\nDear mr Sawen - loften coondered\nat of you be ever got - Guam efite How G Bargon my My rook family after got seems number Betty my\n16. met - Dr Ted Marrs in 76 Benning Presedent wa those last\nViethamere) refugred\nP.S. Your most recent contribution of $\nhere Do let me know what happened in\nwas received. Would you accept this as your receipt? And\nwe can still use green stamps to help furnish Mme. Ngai's house.\nfutile days.\nYour Contributions Are Deductible For Income Tax Purposes\nDr. Pat Tisdale at End of Airlift at Ft. Benning\nThe Happy Ending\nSome items in this folder were not digitized because it contains copyrighted\nmaterials. Please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library for access to\nthese materials.\n-THE SUNDAY LEDGER - ENQUIRER, APRIL 20, 1975\nTisdale, an An Lac board chair-\nBetty Had To Make\nman, treated the children at\nthe home in his free time when\nhe commanded the 1st Infantry\nDivision's medical battalion.\nHe backed his wife's mission\nEvacuation Attempt\nand flew to Los Angeles to join\nin caring for the children en\nroute here, but emphasizes it\nBy LISA BATTLE\nwas \"her show.\"\nIn a white pantsuit, looking\nentertaining children with\nLedger Staff Writer\nlike she was headed for a holi-\ndiarrhea, upset stomach and\n\"I'm quite proud of her. I\nday in Miami, Mrs. Tisdale\nother ailments. The ABC-TV\nlike what she does,\" he says.\nBetty Tisdale admits she\nflew from Columbus April 6,\ncrew worked right along with\nOne day last week a\ndidn't know she could bring a\nabout a week after starting her\nAir Force nurses and escorts\nreporter drove up to the pine\nSaigon orphanage to Colum-\nshaded Tisdale home and\nmarathon telephone effort.\ndiapering, feeding, cuddling the\nbus. She just knew \"I had to\nTo her family and friends\nchildren, many frightened by\noverheard Betty briefly blast\nChildren Celebrate\nTHE COLUMBUS, GA., LEDGER,\nFRIDAY, MAY 2, 1975\nArrival of 'Ba'\nBy LISA BATTLE\nyoungsters as they chomped\neverywhere.\"\nvigorously.\nwere among the spectators\nLedger Staff Writer\nNow the children were\n\"I don't like,\" said Mme.\nenjoying the children's per-\nsinging again. 'They talk\nThey pulled out the stops\nNgai, making a face.\nformance. The two arrived\nShe said the children's first\nabout home and country,\nWednesday night with the\nfor Madame Ngai.\ntheir homeland 'We love it\ndirector and Mrs. Tisdale.\nIn the grassy yard of Fort\nquestion after greeting her\nforever',\" said Mrs. Kinard.\nBenning's Wilbur School\n\" 'When we can come back\nMiss Vu Thi Chinh Thuc\nThursday, An Lac Orphanage\nto Saigon?' \"\nNguyen Van Tin spoke\nand Nguyen Tan Tin, An Lac\nchildren danced, sang,\n\"I say, 'You no happy\nwarmly of the welcome he\nassistants who fled as\nand the others have found in\nand prayed in Vietnamese for\nhere? They say 'We are very\nchildren with Mme. Ngai\nthe\nU.S.\nare\nvery\nGERALD R. FORD LIBRARY\nTALKING POINTS/AGENDA\nDiscussion of present status (Chairpersons, Funding,\nList Compilation, Brief Refugee Report)\nContents of folder\nPrimary list determination\nSecondary list of alternates\nExecutive Director/Staff\nOperational Consideration- - Decentralize\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH\nOF\nFORD & GERALD LIBRARY\nCOLONEL THOMAS P. HARRISON, USAF\nColonel Thomas P. Harrison was assigned to the Office of the\nSecretary of Defense in June 1969 from Vietnam where he had served\nas the Chief of Protocol, 7th Air Force.\nColonel Harrison was born on January 5, 1924 in Washington, D. C.,\nand attended private and public schools in that city. He has attended\nthe Texas Christian University and the University of Maryland. He\nreceived graduate training from George Washington University in\nIndustrial Management in 1966. He entered the service in August 1943\nand graduated from flying training in November 1944. From November\n1944 until September 2, 1945, Colonel Harrison was a combat crew\nmember in B-24's. He participated in the air campaigns over the\nRyukyus, Philippines and Japan.\nUpon cessation of World War II, he served with the occupational forces\nin Japan until 1948. From 1948 until 1961, Colonel Harrison was\nassigned to the Strategic Air Command as a combat crew member and\nflew in B-36's, KC-135's and B-52's. He has logged over 6, 000 hours\nof flying.\nIn 1961, Colonel Harrison held the job of Chief of War Plans for the\nStrategic Wing (SAC) at Glasgow, Montana. In 1962, he was assigned\nto Headquarters, United States Air Force in the Colonel's Group,\nDeputy Chief of Staff for Personnel. In this capacity he was responsi-\nble for the assignment of all colonels ordered to the Washington, D. C.\narea, including the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Office of\nthe Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as the staffs of NASA, DLA, CIA, etc.\nIn 1965, he was selected to attend the Industrial College of the Armed\nForces at Fort Leslie J. McNair, Washington, D. C. which dealt\nprincipally with the management of resources at the Department of\nDefense level. Concurrently, with this schooling, he attended the\nGeorge Washington University where he majored in management at\ni\nthe graduate level.\nIn 1966, Colonel Harrison was assigned to Vietnam and flew with the\n315th Air Commando Wing stationed at Tan Son Nhut, and subsequently\nserved with the DCS Personnel, Headquarters, Air Force Systems\nCommand, Andrews Air Force Base from August 1967 to May 1968.\nColonel Harrison is a member of the Signa Nu Fraternity, Institute\nof Navigation, and the Air Force Association.\nHe is married to the former Bui Thi Son Binh of Saigon, Vietnam and\nhas two daughters Minh, age 16 and Lan, age 15, who attend the\nEcole Francaise Internationale in Washington,\nDECORATIONS, SERVICE MEDALS AND AWARDS\nLegion of Merit\nBronze Star\nAir Medal\nAir Force Commendation Medal\nPresidential Unit Citation\nAmerican Theater Campaign Medal\nAmerican Defense Medal\nAsiatic Pacific Campaign Medal (with three battle stars)\nWorld War II Victory Medal\nPhilippine Liberation Medal (with two battle stars)\nPhilippine Independence Medal\nRepublic of Vietnam Campaign Medal\nRepublic of Vietnam Armed Forces Service Medal (1st Class)\nNational Defense Service Medal (with battle star)\nVietnam Service Medal (with five battle stars)\nAir Force Longevity Ribbon (with six Oak Leaf Clusters)\nEFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION\nRank\nDate\nSecond Lieutenant\n11 November 1944\nFirst Lieutenant\n20 March 1946\nCaptain\n1 September 1951\nMajor\n25 November 1952\nLieutenant Colonel\n16 April 1963\nColonel\n8 June 1968\n2\n1007 ST STEPHENS RD\nVIÊT-MÝ CORPORATION\nALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA\n22304\n703-370-2234\nIMPORTING FAR EAST PRODUCTS\n*\nFORD & LIBRARY GERAL\nMr Do Dinh Loc\n103 Speicher Drive\nAnnapolis, Maryland, 21401 301 268 9633\nVenerable Thich Thien-An D.Litt., Waseda Univ., Tokyo\nCollege of Oriental Studies\n924 S New Hampshire Avenue\nLos Angeles, Calif., 90006\n487 1235 or 384 0850\nTran Van Chuong, Former Ambassador of Viet Nam\nChan H Dao, M.D.,\n4200 Edmondson Avenue\nBaltimore, Maryland, 21229 301 233 2700\nMrs Trinh Van Chan\n6149 Utah Avenue, N.W.,\nWashington, D.C.,\n363 6495\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nChan H. 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(301) 233-2700\naid\nFrank Wasner\nAmb.\n432-3840\nBrown\nTRAN VAN CHUONG\nFormer Ambassador of Viet Nam\nWednesdays\nPaintings of China and Japan\nSatam Lee, B.A., Hankuk Univ of Foreign Studies, Ko-\n8-10 pm\nAsoka room\nMr. Reese\nrea, International Relations; Buddhist Bhikkhu\nArthur Lerner, Ph.D., University of Southern Califor-\nPlease Post\nThursdays\nZen and Martial Arts (Kun-Tao)\nLecture Hall\nMr. Boehm\nnia, Psychology and American-English Literature\n8-10 pm\nAlfred Lin, Ph.D., University of California at Los An-\nFridays\nTai-chi-chuan (beginning)\ngeles, Chinese Studies\n6-8 pm\nLecture Hall\nDr. Huang\nMyoko Maezumi, Ph.D., University of Southern Cali-\nfornia, Linguistics; Buddhist nun\nSaturdays\nFlower Arrangement\n12-2 pm\nAsoka room\nMs. Sato\nTaizan Maezumi, M.A., Komazawa University, Tokyo,\nZen Roshi, Founder, Zen Center of Los Angeles\nLos Angeles, California 90006\n914-924 So. New Hampshire\nCollege of Oriental Studies\nCOLLEGE\nOF\nINDIVIDUAL STUDIES to be arranged between students\nMokusen Miyuki, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School,\nAsian Studies\nand professors\nDavid Nowlis, Ph.D., Harvard University, Social and\nORIENTAL STUDIES\nADMINISTRATION AND PARTIAL FACULTY\nClinical Psychology\nCatherine Porro, Ph.D., University of California at\nVen. Thich Thien-An, D.Litt., Waseda University, To-\nLos Angeles, Clinical Psychology\nkyo; One of three founders and first Dean, Faculty of\nGerow Reese, M.A., Univ of Hawaii, Far East Studies\nLetters and Human Sciences, Van-Hanh University,\nMaria Reichenbach, Ph.D., Univ of Freiburg, Germany\nSaigon; former chairman Department of Asian Stu-\nGeoffrey Ross, Ph.D., Stanford University, Philosophy\ndies, University of Saigon; Visiting Professor, U.C.\nM.P. Samartha, Ph.D., Hartford Seminary Foundation,\nHistory of Religions\nL. A.; Founder and President\nVen. Song-Ryong Hearn, Graduate Vancouver School\nToshiko Sato, M.A., Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo\nof Arts, Zen Master, Inka, 1971; Vice-President\nMarva Spelman, Ph.D., New York University, Arts and\nHumanities\nEdward Wortz, Ph.D., Psychology, University of Tex-\nLeland Stewart, S.T.B., Harvard Divinity School, Reli-\nas; Vice-President\nMichael Hannon, J.D., Attorney at Law, Southwest Uni-\ngion; Founder, International Cooperation Council\nThomas Tominaga, Ph.D. Georgetown Univ, Philosophy\nversity; Dharma Teacher, Vice-President\nLeo Pruden, Ph.D., Harvard University, Far Eastern\nTsewang Topgay, B.A., Johnson Coll., Univ of Redlands\nJudith Tyberg, Ph.D., Benares Hindu University, India,\nLanguages, Dean of Academic Affairs\nVen. W. Ananda, Ph.D., Kyoto University, Japan, Zen\nSanskrit and Sanskrit Scriptures\nCulture and Meditation; Mahathera from Sri Lanka\nMan-Tien Ung, Ph.D., Univ of Southern California\nLee Baumel, M.D., State University of New York at\nTerry Yae, M.A., Pasadena College, 5th degree black\nbelt, Karate and Kung-fu\nBuffalo\nFramroze Bode, High Priest of Zoroastrian Communi-\nCALENDAR OF WINTER QUARTER (Jan 6-Mar 21)\nty, Ph.D., Philosophical Research Society\nBarton Boehm, 7th degree black belt, self-defense\nPlacement examination: December 22; 2 pm\nRussell Cangialosi, Ph.D., University of Southern Cal-\nRegistration: weekdays Dec 23-Jan 3; 6-8:30 pm\nifornia, History-Fine Arts\nClasses begin: January 6\nJon Carter Covell, Ph.D., Columbia University, His-\nHolidays: February 17\ntory of Arts\nFinal Examinations: last day of class\nTo Better Understanding Between East and West\nRobert Chaney, D.D., President, Astara Church\nNON-CREDIT CLASSES AT MEDITATION CENTER\nHenry Drake, Ph.D., University of Southern California,\nTo Create Scholars in Oriental Culture, Arts,\nPsychology\nThere are many non-credit lectures and classes, in-\nLester Fehmi, Ph.D., Physiological Psychology, Uni-\ncluding Zen, Yoga, Zen Sesshins and Tibetan medita-\nPhilosophy, Psychology, Religion and Languages\nversity of California at Los Angeles\ntion offered by the International Buddhist Meditation\nBachelor of Arts, Master of Arts\nArchbishop Fukui, D.Litt., Waseda University, Tokyo,\nCenter, 928 So. New Hampshire Avenue, Los Angeles,\nDoctor of Philosophy Programs\nOriental Philosophy\nCalifornia 90006. Cost is by voluntary donation.\nArnold Hall, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School, Asian\nCATALOG REQUEST\nStudies\nJay Harris, Ph.D., Indiana Univ., Japanese Literature\nPlease send me a copy of the catalog of the College of\nStephen Hoeller, D.D. (Hon), Nazarene College, London\nOriental Studies, including admission and registration\nWen-Shan Huang, Ph.D., China Academy, Taiwan,\nPermit No. 30726\nLos Angeles, California\nNon-profit Organization\nWINTER QUARTER\nChen Wei-Mei Hsu, B.A., National Taiwan Normal Uni-\nforms. Enclosed is $1 for cost of handling and mailing.\nPAID\nversity, Chinese Literature\nU.S. Postage\nJanuary -- March, 1975\nName\nFounder, American Academy of Chinese Culture\n924 So. New Hampshire Avenue\nStreet\nJames Hurtak, Ph.D., Univ of Chicago, Oriental Studies\nLos Angeles, California 90006\nKazumitsu Kato, Ph.D., Univ. of the Pacific, Philosophy\nCity\nState\nZip\nTelephones: 487-1235, 384-0850\nINTRODUCTION TO THE COLLEGE\nenter the M.A. or Ph.D. program. Fee for the exami-\nASIAN LANGUAGES (4 units)\n7-9:30 pm Z392 Platform Sutra of Hui-Neng\nnation is $15.\nZendo\nVen. Hearn\nMon & Wed\nL107b Beginning Sanskrit\nThe College of Oriental Studies has added an under-\nFACILITIES\n6-8 pm\nEast-West Center\nDr. Tyberg\n8-10:30 pm\nC231 Philosophy of Religion\ngraduate division to its graduate school and now offers\na program of upper division courses leading to Bach-\nAt present there are some rooms for rent the second\nTue & Fri\nL207b Intermediate Sanskrit (3 units)\nAnanda room\nDr. Ross\nfloor of the College buildings and Buddhist dormitory\n4:30-6 pm\nEast-West Center\nDr. Tyberg\nelor of Arts degrees in Oriental Studies and in Buddhist\nThursdays\nC234 Hinduism\nfor about $60. The library will be open week-day even-\nMon & Wed\nL106b Beginning Pali\nMinisterial Education. The College also offers degrees\nDr. Ananda\n12-2:30 pm\nEast-West Center\n6-8 pm\nDr. Tyberg\nings from 6-9 pm. Week-end hours will be posted. At\nAsoka\nroom\nof Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in five de-\npartments: Buddhist Philosophy, Zen Studies, Compar-\npresent books may not be checked out. Students are en-\nTime to be\nL108a Beginning Tibetan\n6-8:30 pm\nR376 Temple & Center Administration\ncouraged to use the various public libraries.\narranged\nAsoka\nroom\nMr. Topgay\nLecture Hall\nDr. Thien-An\native Religion, East-West Philosophy and East-West\nTue & Thur\nL103b Beginning Japanese\nPsychology. The College also offers courses in Asian\nFEES\nReading room\nMr. Matsumoto\n6-8:30 pm\nE243 Major Problems in Western Phi-\n6-8 pm\nLanguages, East-West Arts and Cultural Studies.\nTue & Fri\nlosophy\nFull time students (12 units per quarter), $30 per unit\nL10lb Beginning Modern Chinese\nAnanda room\nDr. Reichenbach\nThe College is designed to promote the understanding of\nPart time students (less than 12 units), $35 per unit\n6-8 pm\nAsoka room\nMs. Hsu\nOriental culture and religion and the inter-cultural re-\nNon-credit students, $25 per unit\nTime to be\nL40la Classical/Buddhist Chinese (3)\n7:30-10 pm\nZ295 Introduction to Zen Literature\nlations between East and West. The College feels that\n$15 non-refundable registration fee ($10 for part-time\narranged\nAsoka room\nDr. Lin\nL.A. Zen Center\nMaezumi Roshi\nstudy without practice leads to a one-sided appreciation\nand non-credit students)\nWed & Fri\nL105a Beginning Vietnamese\nof the various aspects of a culture; therefore, all pro-\n$5 non-refundable library fee\n12-2 pm\nAnanda room\nDr. Man-Tien\n8-10:30 pm\nP322 Gestalt, Awareness and Zen\nZendo\nDr. Wortz\ngrams encourage experience in the performance of re-\n$15 non-refundable admission fee (first quarter only)\nTue & Thur\nL104a Beginning Korean\nligious activities such as meditation, chanting and ce-\n6-8 pm\nLibrary\nRev. Lee\n8-10:30 pm\nR370 Techniques of Mindfulness Medi-\nremony, arts and daily life experiences of several Or-\nREFUNDS\ntation\niental cultures.\nADVANCED COURSES (3 units)\nAsoka room\nDr. Ananda\nWithdrawal during the first week of classes, 100% less\nThe College has a program of exchange students and\n$10; 50% second week; no refund from the third week\nMondays\nC343 Modern Thinkers of Indian Philos.\n8-10:30 pm\nC331 Modern Religious Movements\nprofessors with Taisho University in Japan, Dong-Guk\n6-8:30 pm\nAsoka room\nDr. Samartha\nReading room\nRev. Stewart\nUniversity in Korea, College of Chinese Culture in\nSCHOLARSHIPS\n6-8:30 pm\nB510 Interaction Between Buddhism &\nFridays\nR275 Techniques of Meditation in The-\nTaiwan, Van-Hanh University in Vietnam, Vidyalan-\nIn special circumstances a student may apply for a\nOther Philosophies & Religions-Semin.\n6-8:30 pm\nravada and Mahayana Buddhism\nkara University in Ceylon and Sakya College in India.\nscholarship to pay for part of his tuition fees.\nAnanda room\nDr. Thien-An\nZendo\nDr. Thien-An\nThe College of Oriental Studies was incorporated by\nSCHEDULE OF CLASSES\n8-10:30 pm\nR273 Buddhist Ethics and Morals\n6-8:30 pm\nB210 Buddhist Philosophy\nthe State of Califoria in 1973 as an institution of higher\nDescriptions of courses are listed in the College cata-\nAnanda room\nDr. Ananda\nReading room\nDr. Ananda\neducation, fulfilling all legal requirements of Division\n21, Section 29007 (a) (3) of the California Education\nlog. Undergraduates may take Cultural Studies courses\nTuesdays\nT494 Lankavatara Sutra\n8-10:30 pm\nE343 Chinese Philosophy\nCode in order to confer the academic degrees of B.A.,\nand series 100, 200 and 300 courses for credit. Gradu-\n8-10:30 am\nAnanda room\nDr. Thien-An\nAnanda room\nDr. Lin\nM.A. and Ph.D. to those students who successfully\nate students may take 200 series courses and higher\n6-8:30 pm\nA260 Survey of Oriental Arts\ncomplete the requirements. The College is a non-sec-\nfor credit. All language courses are open for credit to\n8-10:30 pm\nC335 Psychology of Religion\nReading room\nDr. Cangialosi\nboth undergraduates and graduates.\nAnanda room\nDr. Hoeller\ntarian school which does not discriminate as to race,\ncolor, nationality, creed, or sex.\n6-8:30 pm\nE254 Quieting the Mind East & West\nPlease note that the College reserves the right to can-\n8-10:30 pm\nA266 History of Chinese Culture & Art\nWorkshop and lecture\ncel any class with insufficient enrollment. In such a\nAsoka room\nDr. Huang\nADMISSION AND REGISTRATION\nBaumel Office\nDr. Baumel\ncase students may transfer to other classes without\nSaturdays\nP253 Eastern Philos. & Mental Health\nTo register for the first time a student must submit\nextra fee or receive a full refund.\n7-9:30 pm\nZ371 Techniques of Meditation in Zen\n12-2:30 pm\nAsoka room\nDr. Porro\nZendo\nan application for admission at least two weeks in ad-\nVen. Hearn\nvance. After being admitted the student may then regi-\nINTRODUCTORY COURSES\n12-2:30 pm\nE240 History of Philosophy\n8-10:30 pm\nC336 Christian Mysticism\nAnanda room\nDr. Tominaga\nster for courses. Continuing students need submit only\nMondays\nno Intro to Comparative Religion\nReading room\nStaff\nthe registration form.\n8-10:30 pm Reading room\nCULTURAL STUDIES (2 units)\nDr. Hoeller\n8-10:30 pm\nB313 Tibetan Tantric Buddhism\nA B.A. degree is required for a student to enter the\nTuesdays\nII12 Intro to Buddhism & Other Orien-\nAsoka room\nRev. Paritrata\nMondays\nYoga, Theory and Practice\nM.A. program, a M.A. degree is required for the Ph.D.\ntal Religions\nprogram and an A.A. degree or two years general col-\n8-10:30 pm\n8-10:30 pm\nB212 Early Buddhist Schools\n10-12 noon\nSpelman Studio\nDr. Spelman\nAnanda room\nDr. Thien-An\nLibrary\nDr. Ananda\nlege education is required for a student in the B.A. pro-\n8-10 pm\nZen and Martial Arts (Karate,\ngram.\nWednesdays\nI113 Intro to Asian Civilization and\nWednesdays\nC338 Bhagavad-Gita\nLecture Hall\nMr. Yae\nCulture\n6-8:30 pm\nEast-West Center\nPLACEMENT EXAMINATION\nReading room\nDr. Tyberg\n8-10:30 pm\nTuesdays\nDr. Ananda\nTai-chi-chuan (intermediate)\n6-8:30 pm\nT496 Lotus Sutra\n6-8 pm\nLecture Hall\nDr. Huang\nThose students who do not have a B.A. or M.A. degree\nThursdays II14 Intro to East-West Psychology\nLecture Hall\nDr. Maezumi\nor its equivalent in Oriental Studies mustpass a place-\n6-8:30 pm Lecture Hall\n8-10 pm\nDr. Bode\nChinese Cooking\n7-9:30 pm\nZ393 Platform Sutra of Hui-Neng\nDining room\nMs. Hsu\nment examination or take at least two of the introduc-\nFridays\nI115 Intro to East-West Philosophy\nZendo\ntory courses with a 'B' grade or better in order\nVen. Hearn\n8-10:30 pm Ananda room\nWednesdays\nAcupuncture and Self-Treatment\nDr. Tominaga\n6-8 pm\nAnanda room\nRev. Lee\nMrs Nguyen Hure Hanh\nwas Dov of Cent Bank\nHm just lift World Bank\nGERALD FORD LIBRARY\nCalled Task Force 632-9800\nTold this fellow that answered that I was interested in donating\nmoney\nReply: Just a minute\nand he said to someone standing near him\nshe wants to donate money\nand the answer from him to me was\nyour local charity\nspecify that it is for Vietnamese refugees\nthen he said\nCall the Red Cross. (Boy that answered wasn't\nsure of himself)\nCalled Task Force 632-9800\nTold this same fellow that answered the previous call that I was\ninterested in sponsoring a refugee\nhe asked me what type of\nsponsorship I was interested in? Long term\nshort term??\nI told him that I was interested in sponsoring someone temporarily,\nand he asked me if I was interested in a child or an adult. I told\nhim a child or a teenager\nhe said someone will contact you in 4 to\n6 weeks about this and took my name and phone number. I gave him\na fictious name.\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nFORD i LIBRARY 07W839\nWASHINGTON\nTo become a oponsor -\nyou must be financially\nable to provide food,\nsheeter & dothing for a\nfamily.\nNo legal requirements- -\nyou do not have to\nshow proof of your\nfrancial ability.\nCJ BARR\n(212)864-6982\nRfile\nFORD i LIBRARY GERALD\nTHE VIETNAMESE SELF HELP FOUNDATION\nOur task is to help the Vietnamese refugees help themselves as successfully\nas previous programs had helped others seeking freedom resettle in America. We seek\nto offer help with a Vietnamese face and American solutions -- a very potent combination.\nWe seek nothing short of total success. To US one success is one point won towards\nour goal, one failure is five points lost. Our greatest enemies are despair, selfishness,\nand fear. We must remain determined despite our disappointments and courageous\ndespite our weaknesses.\nMai Nguyen\nDirector\n1379 Queen Anne Rd.\nTeaneck, N.J. 07666\n(201) 837-2320\n- 1 -\nPROBLEM\n(1) The sudden exodus from Vietnam and Cambodia of close to 150,000 refugees for\nthe first time brought the problem of massive refugee resettlement to America's shores.\nIn the past (Post-WW II, Hungarian, Cuban) entry of the refugees into the U.S. either\nfollowed lengthy preprocessing and selection in other countries or at the very least entry\nin a managable flow.\n(2) Consequently, the U.S. is faced with the refugee syndrome on its own shores. That\nsyndrome which had been overcome prior to entry into the U.S. by other groups is now a\nfull-blown in-country problem which few, if any, Americans are trained to deal with.\n(3) The refugees were quickly turned into a political issue. Various politicians and the\nnews media imprinted the following images on the popular mind:\n(a) these refugees are \"the wrong Vietnamese,\" the \"right\" Vietnamese were left\nbehind due to Ambassador Martin's \"bungling\" of the exodus.\n(b) many undesirable elements were able to \"buy\" their way onto exodus transport.\n(c) most of the refugees are urban profiteers who had evaded the hardships of\nwar for years and simply wanted to leave because they knew that they couldn't\nenjoy their usual high standard of living under the Communists.\n(d) they brought much gold with them but wanted to be resettled at U.S.\nGovernment expense.\n(e) the exodus from Saigon of Americans was endangered and incomplete because\nof Ambassador Martin's preoccupation with the Vietnamese.\n(4) The present economic crisis and fear that the refugees might further burden our\ndeclining national assets inhibited the traditional welcome afforded by the American\npeople to refugees seeking freedom in the U.S.\n(a) Upon hearing that the refugees were to be placed in menial labor, unskilled\nminorities feared their unfair competition at below union scale wages.\n(b) Fearing that the refugees would become an additional endless welfare problem,\nthe already overburdened middle class became very resentful.\n(5) One cannot underestimate the role of the news media and some members of Congress\nin creating this most inaccurate image of the refugees. Furthermore, delays caused by\nthe \"politics\" of refugee relief caused the resettlement program to function at first without\nany assets. Consequently in large part because of legislative delay every facet of\nthe program seems to have gotten off on the wrong foot.\n(6) Faced with the politics of the refugee problem, the Administration opted for the\nmost expedient course of action. Emphasis was placed on dispersal of the refugees, out\nof concentrated foci where they are political dynamite.\n-- 2 -\n(7) Responding to the Administration's sense of urgency, the \"Volags\" limited their\ngoals to the obtaining of \"moral sponsors.\"\n(8) Given the ill conceived schemes devised to facilitate sponsorship, the overwhelming\nmajority of refugees are languishing hopelessly in camps. And, given the malicious\nreport of the Kennedy Committee they are bound to become a helpless political football\ntossed around by all sides, but cared for by no one.\nOBJECTIVES\n(1) To reunite greater refugee families.\n(2) To make the refugees feel welcome.\n(3) To make them realize that they are the occasional victims of honest unintentional\nmistakes and not the recipient of subtle messages of disdain such as: \"You are not\nwanted, go back\"!\n(4) To make the refugees realize that their experience is not unique and that like\nthose refugees who preceeded them, they too shall eventually prevail.\n(5) To unite them' through cultural activities and thus present a positive image to the\nU.S. people.\n(6) To introduce them to the American way of life in preparation for total integration.\n(7) To teach them functional English.\n(8) To train them vocationally or for the management of small family enterprises.\n(9) To relocate them in ideal communities where they are welcomed and assisted.\n(10) To provide them with ongoing social services until they are totally on their own.\n- 3 -\nThe VIETNAMESE SELF HELP FOUNDATION was created at first in order to respond to\nthe needs of the Vietnamese Community in the New York metropolitan area, which was\nleft stranded by the sudden downfall of Vietnam and the disappearance of any consular\nfacilities in this region. Our objectives were twofold: (a) to reunite these people with\nthose members of their families who had managed to escape, and (b) to help them settle\nin this area in small family businesses.\nAs the situation unfolded, the Foundation found itself having to expand its programs to\nservice greater numbers and types of refugees. After a careful survey of the entire\nVietnamese refugee problem, the Foundation came up with the following four-phase\nprogram for refugee relief.\nPhase I\n(1) After informal meetings in conversations with refugees in the camps, the Foundation's\ncoordinators propose lists of families for Foundation sponsorship to the Board of Coordinators.\nThose families found suitable for the environment and opportunities in the greater New\nYork metropolitan area are offered the Foundation's sponsorship.\n(2) Sponsors in need of assistance and services are to contact the Foundation for\nassistance in the resettlement of refugees in their charge. Upon approval of the Board\nof Coordinators, these refugees are enrolled into the Foundation's program as extern or\nintern participants depending upon their needs.\n(3) Refugees having difficulties or needing assistance to supplement or replace that\noffered by their sponsors are, upon approval of the Board of Coordinators, admitted to\nthe Foundation's program on an intern or extern basis depending on their need.\nPhase II\n(1) All refugees will be attached to the VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY CENTER. Four\nsuch centers are planned, two in New York City and two in Newark, N. J.\n(2) The refugees will be divided into those constituting families and those coming as\nsingles. Each group will be placed in the appropriate center in N.Y. or N.J. depending\non the area of greatest opportunity for. their desired mode of resettlement, the choices\nare theirs to make.\n(3) In the centers all refugees will be offered the following programs:\n(a) Orientation - intensive training in American socio-economic and cultural ways,\nbasic law, training for the acquisition of driver's licence, civic privileges and\nresponsibilities, etc.\n(b) Language Training - intensive training in the English language, concentrating\non functional English to permit basic communications with others.\n(c) Old Refugees to New Refugees - a three phase program. where the refugees\nare brought together in formal and informal meetings with: 1) former refugees\nto show the Vietnamese that their resettlement problems are not unique and that\n- 4 -\nthe future looks promising for those who strive; 2) established Vietnamese\nresidents to convince the refugees that Vietnamese are not under any special\nhandicap in resettling; 3) meetings with local American groups to demonstrate\nthe welcoming character of their future neighbors and to familiarize them with\nlocal mores.\n(d) Temporary placement for those adequately prepared, placement services\nin any available jobs will be sought. These people will be in-house residents\nuntil their income is adequate to permit self-sufficiency and continued familial\nunity and integrity.\n(e) Pocket money, crafts and services - such skills as they do exist will be\nencouraged in the generation of pocket money for the families and individuals\nwho have them.\n(f) Social services - the Foundation will plug refugees into all private and\nmunicipal services available to facilitate rapid resettlement.\n(g) Cultural activities Any such activities which promote cultural identity and\nunity will be encouraged and promoted in the center.\n(h) Child integration program - based on the principal that children are more\nadaptable than adults, attempts will be made to integrate the children into the\nlocal school systems as soon as possible. Coordination with the local educational\nauthorities will be very close in order to insure success.\nPhase III\nA. Economic Resettlement - Preparation\n(1) Family Business - Those elements of a family which will play a managerial role\nin the family businesses will be taken to special on-campus live-in programs for intense\nEnglish, business management, and law training while the rest of the family stays at\nthe Center.\n(2) Those seeking vocational training will be steered to the appropriate vocational\ntraining facilities in programs closely coordinated with the Foundation.\n(3) Professional Accreditation - In compliance with respective state laws, profession\naccreditation programs for those doctors, lawyers, technicians, engineers, etc. seeking\nto continue the practice of their professions will be sought and organized.\n(4) Preparation for Higher Education - Those seeking degrees from colleges or higher\ninstitutions will be assisted in preparing themselves and in finding the most appropriate\nprograms.\nB. Economic Resettlement - Establishment\n(1) Once a family is ready to begin a small business, the Foundation will work to:\n- 5 -\n(a) bring together government, private and Vietnamese capital to initiate the\nchosen business.\n(b) find and help in acquiring the best location for the desired business.\n(c) bring together local advice and the prospective family to assist in the\ntaking off of that business.\n(d) work to attract customers to such businesses.\n(2) Once a refugee has accomplished and is accredited in the vocation of his choice,\nthe Foundation will work to:\n(a) place the individual\n(b) facilitate proper union accreditation if needed\n(c) work with the employer and the refugee to insure satisfaction on both sides.\n(3) Upon completion of professional accreditation of a refugee, the Foundation will:\n(a) assist the refugee professional in establishing himself or herself privately\nand institutionally.\n(b) put the refugee in contact with other professionals who had similar accreditation\nand placement problems as refugees.\n(c) seek to establish liaison between the individual and appropriate professional\nsocieties and services.\n(d) work to attract a clientele to his or her services.\n(4) Once a degree candidate has chosen and has been accepted to a college or univer-\nsity, the foundation will coordinate with that school's student services to insure a success-\nful educational experience. In addition, tutorial services will be provided in order to\novercome the handicaps caused by the student's background and language difficulties.\nPhase IV.- Ancillary Services\n(1) Once the task of economic placement has been accomplished, the Foundation will\nassist in relocating the refugee or refugee family in suitable housing.\n(2) Continued resettlement services will be tailored to the need of the individuals or\nfamilies concerned.\n(3) Legal aid will be provided by the Committee of Lawyers attached to the Foundation.\n(4) Cognizant of the strains placed on families by the shock of refuge and the strains\nof resettlement in a foreign environment, the Foundation will continue to provide family\ncounseling and services to insure the preservation of the family unit.\n- 6 -\n(5) Social and Cultural Society - To maintain the cultural, private, social and other\nbonds between the refugees, a society for Vietnamese Unity will be established to\ncelebrate holidays, provide social occasions and a sense of cultural unity and identity\namong the refugees as they settle into their new homeland. Publications in English\nand Vietnamese will be encouraged and a directory of Vietnamese in the U.S. will\nbe compiled.\nBOARD OF COORDINATORS\nANCILLARY\nVIETNAMESE COMMUNITY\nSERVICES\nCENTER\nBusiness training\nSmall businesses\n- Relocation\nCamp processing\n- Orientation\n- Resettlement\n- Language training\n- Legal aid\n- Old refugee to new\nrefugee program\nVocational\nJobs\n- Family\nAssistance to\ntraining\ncounseling\n- Temporary placement\nsponsors\n- Social &\n- Pocket money,\ncultural\ncrafts & services\nsociety\n- Social services\nProfessional\nProfessions\nOut-of-camp\n- Cultural activities\nAccreditation\nrefugees\n- Child integration\nprogram\nPreparation for\nColleges\nhigher education\nVIETNAMESE SELF-HELP FOUNDATION REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT PROCESS\nBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH\nLT. GEN. (RET) TRAN VAN DON\nBERALD FORD LIBRARY\nName:\nTRAN VAN DON\nDate & Place of birth:\nAugust 19, 1917 - Bordeaux, France\nEducation:\nGraduated from \"Hautes Etudes Commerciales\"\nSchool - Paris University\nReligion:\nBuddhist\nFamily status:\nMarried - 3 children (2 boys, 1 girl)\nMILITARY SERVICE:\nRetired Lieutenant General\n1953\nChief of Joint Staff, RVNAF\n1957\nCommanding General I VN Corps\n1962\nCommanding General VN Army, RVNAF\n1963\nChief of Joint General Staff RVNAF\n1964\nMinister of National Defense Department\n& Commander in Chief, RVNAF\nPOLITICAL ACTIVITIES:\n1963\nVice President Military Council for National\nRevolution November 1st, 1963\n1965\nChairman of the former High School Students\nAssociation, South Vietnam.\n1967\nPresident of the Freedom Fighters Association;\nChairman of Peasant-Worker-Veterans Movement.\n1968\nChairman of the National Salvation Front.\nChairman of Presidium of the National Alliance\nfor the Social Revolution.\n1973\nMember Advisory Council Central Committee\n\"Democracy Party\"\n1974\nDeputy Prime Minister in Charge of Inspection\nof National Development Programs cumulating\nCongress Liaison.\n1975 (April 14 -\nDeputy Prime Minister - General Inspector - and\nApril 23).\nMinister of Defense.\nSeptember 1967\nElected Senator, the 1st Senate of Republic of\nVietnam.\n1967\nLeader of \"Bloc Revolutionary Peasant-workers\" Senate\n1968\nChairman of Defense Committee, Senate.\nVice President of the Asian Parliamentarians' Union\nRepublic of Vietnam.\n1969\nLeader of \"Bloc Republic\" Senate\n1970\nLeader of \"Viet people's Bloc\" Senate.\nAugust 1971\nElected Representative, Quang Ngai Province.\n1971-1972-1973\nChairman of Defense Committee, Lower House\n1972\nGeneral Secretary of the Asian Parliamentarians'\nUnion, Republic of Vietnam (APU).\n1975 (March 10 -\nSpecial Representative of the President of the\nApril 4)\nRepublic of Vietnam and Head of a delegation for\nTechnical Cooperation to Zaire, Niger, Haute Volta,\nIvory Coast and Liberia.\nIAOLÀ Cours carq EXPALTS\nsecurrecy DO\nwhere 7)\n6 to brin mantolV to atIduqeR\n3032 TO\ngboopsy of cpe of Γpo\nof ATGLUSM (VEN)*\n3815\nof rpo Vareo\nof COMMITTEE* TOMOL Honse\nJOSO\nresqer OF water hoobjo,m Hroon ******\n1090\nsorgon 08 \"Wee goodups\nof дтостит\nnotell nateA add 10 inablesti salV\n1008\nof COMMITTEE\nresqer. of nBJ00 gover\ngobrampes Jags\ngreasey are 1ª4 gource of gebopjic of\nWHETT 33)*\nNTUERCOL of Defense'\n7832 (VDLF) R\nhas TorosqanI IssensO this smirt ?duged\nCouthess\nof Deacjobment\nTOAV\npobuch buying MINTEROL TO CHELRO of\nbutcha\n3813\nMemper COMUCTI Concer] COMMITTEE\nLOL cps DOCTRI\nOF of OF cyo Nocrowny\nT008\nnotisviel ads to negatado\n.JasmevoM to\nIdea\nBLOSTGONE of cps ELeeqow yasoc стоп!\n.mantalV djust ,nottslooeph\n2002\nLoodo? right TOWYOT offit to\nИолешрах Jac' 1003\n1003\nATCS NIJTSURA Consert for\nBOTTLICVT VOLIAILIES:\nthe\nclork\nY COMMINGEL TV CPT** КАЙУЕ\nTHAT\nMINTSCOL of Defenes pob\n3003\nof lorns COUGLE] КЛИУЕ\nJOQS\nOCUOLTY ЛИ КЛИРЕ\n1821\nCountry I AM Combe\nВАЙУЕ\nMITTLVKX SEBAICE:\ngetting proncenous\nexerce:\nMILLING 3 aprigeou (s poll' J ETLJ)\nacpoof - LULTO\nEquescion:\nfrom gengos\nDUEG Y bjscc of prosy: ynEner JO³ JOIS Manua\nName:\nJ.SVR ЛУИ DON\nI'S' CEAL (SEL) ДВИЙ AVM\nEREICH\nLIBRARY GERALD P. FORD\nA STRATEGY FOR THE INTEGRATION OF INDOCHINESE REFUGEES\nINTO AMERICAN SOCIETY\nMr. Gordon King, President\nEducational Systems Corporation\n1302 18th Street, N. W., Suite 603\nWashington, D. C. 20036\n(202) 293-9160\nA Strategy for the Integration of Indochinese Refugees\ninto American Society\nIt might well have been predicted that the final bitter episode\nin America's involvement in Indochina would be an acrimonious\ndebate as to the wisdom of permitting Cambodian and Vietnamese\nrefugees to resettle in this country. The precipitous decline\nof the South Vietnamese and Cambodian regimes allowed little\ntime for the Federal government or the American public to con-\nsider the problem, discuss its merits, develop a consensus or\ncreate the mechanisms necessary to facilitate the acceptance and\nsuccessful incorporation of the refugees. As with discussions\nof whether United States forces ought to have been committed in\nSoutheast Asia, the question of whether these people ought to\nbe here is best left to be argued at social functions or analyzed\nin historical dissertations. Our concern is more pragmatic, for\nthey are here.\nWe believe that the Indochinese refugees offer this country both\na challenge and an opportunity. At a time when the scars of\ndissension over Vietnam have not fully healed and when fears of\neconomic uncertainty continue to grow with families across the\ncountry, it is not difficult to comprehend why many Americans\nview with resentment the allocation of additional resources to\nthe refugees. Indeed, it is conceivable that within some\ncommunities, the issue of further aid could spark reversed and\npotentially destructive social controversy. With adequate\nplanning, however, we believe that the incidence of such reac-\ntions will be quite minor.\nYet, the Indochinese immigrants present to us more than a prob-\nlem, more than a moral burden. They bring to America their good\nwill, their rich cultures and an abundance of energy, skill and\ntalent which will contribute to the vitality and quality of our\nnation. They also offer to us something perhaps less tangible,\nbut critically important nevertheless. That \"something\" is the\nopportunity, during these difficult days of cynicism and mis-\ntrust, to renew and actualize our commitment to the American\nideal, to rededicate ourselves as a nation, to remain a sanc-\ntuary of hope, opportunity and freedom as we approach the Bi-\ncentennial. There could be no finer issue around which to\nunite.\n1\nAssimilation into American Society\nThe process of assimilation, of adaptation and integration into\none mainstream of American life, is an exceedingly complex\nphenomenon. Although we pride ourselves on being a melting-pot,\nobservers of the American scene have increasingly commented on\nour ability to retain aspects of our heritage as a nation of\nimmigrants. This uniquely American knack for fashioning a co-\nherent national identity, while preserving ethnicity, is a tre-\nmendous source of strength, support and creativity for us as\nindividuals and as a people: a resource which has its roots\nwithin the American community.\nWe believe that any successful effort to facilitate the inte-\ngration of an immigrant group into the social fabric of America\nmust focus on the community level. It is here that friendships\nare made and resources develop. It is here that children are\neducated, businesses started, homes moved into, religion prac-\nticed and cultures shared. It is at the local level that public\nopinion is formed, that social problems emerge. It is within\ntowns and neighborhoods across the country, that the assimilation\nprocess will proceed.\nThe quality of this process within a particular locality will\nbe determined by the resources and flexibility of both the refugee\nsub-group and the host community. Among the factors to be con-\nsidered in analyzing the \"goodness-of-fit\" between the community\nand the immigrant are:\n1. numerical influx - the number of immigrants arriving in a\ncommunity within a finite period of time; community size and\nsocial-class makeup;\n2. ethnic and racial composition - the degree to which similar\nethnic or racial groups are represented in the community;\nthe overall pattern of ethnic diversity within the locality;\n3. education and vocational skills - the facility of the immi-\ngrant group with the English language, the typology of mar-\nketable skills and overall ability to become self-sustaining\nwithin a reasonable period of time;\n4. cultural differentiation - the degree to which the immigrant\nculture exhibits variances from community norms;\n2\n5. institutional sensitivity - the capability of institutions\nwithin the community to respond to immigrant needs (e.g.,\nproviding English instruction, etc.);\n6. institutional load - utilization patterns of community\ninstitutions and resources;\n7. labor market conditions - employment, unemployment and under-\nemployment characteristics;\n8. community typology - congruence of community life with the\npatterns of the community formerly inhabited by the immigrant\ngroup (i.e., rural or urban; type of transportation, etc.) ;\nand\n9. housing conditions - purchase, rental of living units as a\nkey emotional issue needing very special handling.\nBefore presenting a strategy for assisting in the assimilation of\nthe refugees, we would like to briefly highlight some additional\nfactors which, we believe, will substantially affect this process\nand which should therefore be considered in any Federal planning\nin this area:\n1. Many refugees are relatives of American citizens, and so\ncame to the country with a pre-existing social and economic\nsupport network within the community.\n2. Many refugees have worked with Americans in Southeast Asia\nand are familiar with our language, customs and values; it\nfurther appears that a substantial segment of the immigrant\ngroup are professionals, technicians, scholars or entre-\npreneurs.\n3. The United States has a long-standing tradition of openness\nto political refugees; the immigrants come to our shores with\na positive attitude towards this country and share our demo-\ncratic values.\n4. Americans have always displayed a compassion to help those\nin need, especially women, children and old people (who\nmake up a large segment of the group).\n5. White American attitudes towards Orientals have shown a\nsubstantial decrease in prejudice in recent years.\n3\nOn the negative side, we note:\n1. Fear of immigrants as additional competition in a tightening\njob market.\n2. A general human tendency to react with anxiety and suspicion\ntowards any group of strangers who may \"suddenly\" appear;\nlocal resentment at having been selected, by outsiders, as\na host community.\n3. A tight housing market, with current economic conditions and\nhigh interest rates making the issue of where people will\nlive a key point of potential friction.\n4. The possibility that individuals' anger or confusion or\nbitterness about the outcome or conduct of U. S. involvement\nin Southeast Asia will be directed toward the refugees.\nA Community Approach to Refugee Assimilation\nIn designing our strategy, we were guided by general considera-\ntions. Based on our belief that intra-community dynamics will\nbe critical, we believe that every effort should be made to\nresponsibly facilitate the transmission of refugees from the\nrelocation camps into the community. Obviously, this should not\nbe done precipitously, without regard for the well-being of both\nthe immigrant and the community. Yet we believe it is important\nto avoid creating a two-step assimilation process in which refu-\ngees have to adjust first to life in the camp, only to have to\nface another, more difficult adaptation when they later have to\nconfront the realities of life in an American community. Further,\nfrom the point of view of the public, 1,400 immigrants in one's\nneighborhood may seem far more real and less threatening than\n14,000 hidden in a fenced-in tent city, at an old army base fif-\nteen miles outside of town.\nWe also believe that procedures must be developed to individualize\nthe refugees. There is no single, typical immigrant. There are\nmany who are today all but ready to join their relatives to be-\ngin to carve out a place for themselves in American life.\nOther refugees require far more assistance and support in order\nto make the difficult transition in their new country. A success-\nful program must ensure that it does not frustrate the person\nready to assume independence within the community, while not\ndenying help to those who must proceed at a slower pace.\n4\nOf particular concern will be how housing locally is identified\nand secured. Real estate brokers will not be particularly\ninterested in \"community\" attitudes; they will want to move\nhouses. We strongly recommend that the housing issue not be\nleft out of the impact planning problem, for this could form\ninsurmountable local problems.\nFinally, we would suggest that Federal communications and media\nefforts on this issue also be aimed at the process of integration\nwithin the community, rather than a highlighting of large-scale\nproblems affecting tens of thousands of refugees, or on life in\nthe camps.\nOur overall approach to the issue of Federal support for refugee\nresettlement recognizes the community as the context in which\nassimilation occurs. We believe that the Federal initiative\nwill be most efficacious and gain the greatest public support if\nit is directed toward bolstering those local institutions which\nfunction to promote the acceptance and integration of the refu-\ngees into the community. Our aim would be to encourage the\nendorsement of the resettlement plan by local leaders and insti-\ntutions - governmental, political, educational, religious, labor,\ncivic, social service, and professional - and to technically and\nfinancially assist these institutions in this process. Local\ngroups would be encouraged to sponsor and facilitate the incor-\nporation of a limited number of refugees, to assist and \"run\ninterference\" for them within the community structure. In this\nway the arriving Indochinese would have immediately available,\nat the local level, a network of advocates and, we would expect,\nfriends who would work to create an atmosphere of public encourage-\nment and to promote the local mobilization of resources on behalf\nof the new community members.\nWe would suggest a five-step approach to the resettlement of\nthe refugees, which directs Federal resources towards:\n1. in-camp preparation for resettlement;\n2. community preparation for the refugees;\n3. housing identification;\n4. support during period of initial involvement in community\nlife (up to one year) and\n5. follow-up support and evaluation.\n1. In-Camp Preparation\nThe process of socialization and assimilation should begin\nwithin the refugee camps. While there are some refugees\nwhose experience and training permits a rapid incorporation\n5\ninto the community, many will be experiencing the extreme\nshock of confronting and having to live within the context\nof a new and strange cultural and technological milieu. We\nexpect that many immigrants, separated from their homeland\nwith bewildering suddenness, more sure of what they are\nrunning from than what they are fleeing to, and facing an\nunknown country and an uncertain future, will experience a\nprofound mixture of feelings including confusion, fear,\nguilt, remorse and apathy. The refugee who waits with her\nfamily in a tent in a Florida resettlement camp, who worries\nabout the fate of friends and relatives left behind, who is\nstirred by memories of a home village she will probably never\nsee again, who ponders a new life which she can hardly yet\ncomprehend, needs more than food, shelter and medical care.\nWithin the camps, an ongoing process of education and coun-\nseling must be initiated, to assist the refugees in coping\nwith the transition process and to help prepare them for\ncommunity life. These programs must be conducted in con-\njunction with a research and assessment effort which would\nfunction to identify the talents, skills, needs and problems\nof each of the refugees and their families. In this way,\nhelp could be provided to guide individuals toward commu-\nnities which will be most appropriate and receptive to them.\n2.\nCommunity Preparation\nCommunity preparation would initially focus on public educa-\ntion and on financially and technically gearing up local\nresources - schools, social service agencies, employment\nsettings - to meet this new demand. Successful community\npreparation and planning would require a close working\nrelationship between local leaders and Federal officials\nadministering the program. An important thrust of this stage\nwould be to identify and develop local groups and individuals,\nwho would agree to sponsor a particular number of new arrivals\nand thus begin to take over the function of assisting the\nrefugees.\n3. Housing Identification\nThis will be a key area of community integration and one\nwhich can be overlooked as being insignificant. A \"real estate\"\napproach to the problem can greatly offend communities that\nare not involved in the process. We imagine the first steps\n6\nwill be to look at available Federal housing possibilities.\nThis should be done in cooperation with individuals who are\nsensitive to the overall dynamics of what is taking place.\nA push ahead to take housing wherever it exists would be\na serious mistake.\n4. Initial Support Within the Community\nFederal support is vital during the initial period of commu-\nnity involvement. Refugees cannot simply be dumped into the\nlaps of the locality. Financial and technical support to\nlocal institutions must be provided, and in communities where\nparticular programs or services are generally lacking or\ninadequate, they must be developed. Consultation by adult\neducation specialists and experienced family service workers,\nthe provision of training materials, and Federal assistance\nin job training and development as well as guidance in mounting\nlocal programs to encourage interaction and cross-cultural\nexploration within the community would be part of this effort.\nThe Federal effort would also assist local educational and\npublic institutions to raise on the local level the theme of\nimmigration as a vital part of the American tradition, and\nto make visible our continued existence as a nation which\nyearly successfully incorporates several hundred thousand\nnew citizens.\n5. Follow-Up\nAlthough we would expect that major responsibility for\nassisting former refugees would have shifted to the state\nand local level within two years, some requirement for on-\ngoing Federal aid may be anticipated, especially in services\nfor children or the elderly. We would also strongly endorse\na policy of program follow-up and evaluation which would\nenable Congress, the Executive Branch, local officials and\nthe public to examine and reflect on the strengths and weak-\nnesses of this effort.\nConclusion\nWe have \"roughed out\" above a general outline of a strategy for\nFederal support for the assimilation of refugees, which stresses\nthe importance of local community participation and sponsorship.\n7\nProgrammatic details and directions must be forged in coop-\neration with the localities affected.\nIt is our hope that the resettlement of Indochinese refugees\nwithin our communities can serve as a beginning as well as an\nend. It will be well to put behind us the angers and dissension\nof the last decade; we have all grown weary of the bitterness\nand strife. We believe that this Federal effort can offer\neffective and humane assistance to the refugees and the host\ncommunities and provide a visible model of what is best in\nAmerican life and tradition, as well as reflect positively on\nthe Administration.\n8\n[April 1975]\nThe following agencies with branches in Vietnam are active in\nintercountry adoption work. All are either licensed or in the pro-\ncess of being licensed by the Ministry of Social Welfare of the\nRepublic of Vietnam to handle such adoptions.\nProspective adoptive parents should contact one of the following\nagencies:\nHolt Children's Service\nP.O. Box 2420\n1195 City View Street\nEugene, Oregon 97402\nFORD & OFRALD LIBRARY\nTelephone: (503) 687-2202\nTAISSA (Traveler's Aid--International\nSocial Services of America)\n,\n345 East 46th Street, Room 715\nNew York, New York 10017\nTelephone: (212) 687-2747\nFriends For All Children\n445 South 68th Street\nBoulder, Colorado 80303\nTelephone: (303) 494-7305\nUnited States Catholic Conference\n201 Park Avenue, South\nNew York, New York 10003\nTelephone: (212) 475-5400\nFriends of Children of Vietnam\n600 Gilpin\nDenver, Colorado 80211\nTelephone: (303) 321-8251 or 8262\nPearl S. Buck Foundation\n2019 DeLancey Place\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania 19103\nTelephone: (215) 732-1030\nWorld Vision Relief Organization\n919 West Huntington Drive\nMonrovia, California 91016'\nTelephone: (213) 357-1111\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\n4.8.75\nTO: Ted marrs\nFor Your Information\nFor Appropriate Handling\nOriginal sent to\nBrent Scowcroft\nMDC.\nRobert D. Linder\nPAN AM\nWilliam T. Seawell\nChairman of the Board\nApril 7, 1975\nThe President of The United\nStates of America\nGERALD FORD LIBRART\nThe White House\nWashington, D. C. 20500\nMr. President:\nWe are, of course, anxious to cooperate in the movement of refugees,\norphans and American personnel from Vietnam under a program which we\nunderstand is being developed by the U. S. Government, and to endeavor to\ncontinue our scheduled and charter services to Vietnam. However, there\nare problems which we have not been able to solve through our own efforts.\nWe have been advised by our insurance underwriters that they are\nterminating, effective 12:01 AM EST on April 11, 1975, our third party\nliability War Risk coverage with respect to operations to, from and over\nVietnam, Cambodia and Laos. We are seeking to reinstate this coverage\nbut have not been successful to date. Under the terms of our existing\nindenture and mortgage with our creditors, we cannot operate any air craft\ninto any recognized area of hostilities unless fully covered by war risk\ninsurance or a United States Government contractural indemnity. Further,\nthe premiums on our aircraft covered under our War Risk hull insurance\nhave been quoted at 25¢ per $100 of aircraft insured value per trip on any\nadditional flights into Vietnam and this coverage is subject to revised rating\nor cancellation at any time. This amounts to a premium of approximately\n$12,500 for a 707 aircraft, and $62,500 for a 747 aircraft, per trip.\nWe have sought coverage under Title XIII of the Federal Aviation Act,\nbut have found, however, that such coverage is restricted and does not cover\nall the risks which are insured by our commercial insurance program such as:\na. Riots and civil commotion\nb. Sabotage and malicious acts or other acts intended to\ncause loss or damage\nc. Hijacking, any unlawful seizure, diversion or exercise\nof control of the aircraft\nd. The detonation of an explosive\ne. The exercise of military power by a foreign governme nt\nPan American World Airways, Inc., Pan Am Building, New York, New York 10017\nThe President of The\nUnited States of America\n2\nApril 7, 1975\nTherefore, due to lack of insurance coverage and prohibitive costs,\nif Pan Am is to participate in such a program we must secure compensation\nfor additional costs for insurance over the costs in effect prior to March 31,\n1975 or a fully enforceable indemnity and hold harmless agreement by the\nU. S. Government applicable to all aircraft hulls, third party and crew\nliability involved in such operation. Such indemnity and hold harmless\nprovisions are described in our wire dated April 4, 1975 to the Military\nAirlift Command, a copy of which is enclosed herewith. If such coverage\ncannot be obtained by 12:01 AM EST on April 11, 1975, the time of termination\nof our war risk liability insurance as referred to above, we will not only be\ndenied the opportunity to expand our operations to and from Vietnam but will\nbe forced to suspend all scheduled and charter service to Vietnam.\nWe would appreciate your good offices in developing such a United\nStates Government indemnification program.\nRespectfully yours,\nWilliam T. Heary\nEnclosure\nCopies of this letter have also been sent to the following persons:\nAttorney General of the United States\nSecretary of Defense\nSecretary of State\nSecretary of Transportation\nActing Chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board\nActing Administrator of the Federal\nAviation Administration\nTHE\nPUNICATIONS\nTHIS MESSAGE\n`.'``_'_\nRENSENT\nin\nINDICATED\nBY\nCROSSING\nOUI\nPRIORITY\nDATE April 04\n1975\nHEADQUARTERS\nMILITARY AIRLIFT COMMAND\nXXXXXXXXXX\nSCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, ILLINOIS\nATTENTION: ARTHUR W. PURKEL, AIRFORCE CONTRACTING\nOFFICER\nRE YR TEL APRIL 3, 1975 CONCERNING INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE PROVISIONS\nTO BE APPLICABLE TO MAC CONTRACT CARRIERS' PARTICIPATION IN VIETNAM EVACUAT\nPROGRAM CMA IN VIEW OF TOTAL INABILITY TO PROCURE LIABILITY INSURANCE CMA\nRESTRICTED COVERAGE UNDER TITLE XIII INSURANCE AND EXCESSIVE COSTS FOR\nCOMMERCIAL HULL AND WAR RISK INSURANCE CMA PAN AM MUST INSIST UPON OBTAININ\nAN INDEMNITY ALONG THE FOLLOWING LINES AND FULLY ENFORCEABLE BEFORE WE CAN\nCONSIDER PARTICIPATION IN SUCH PROGRAM COLON QTE THE GOVERNMENT HEREBY\nINDEMNIFIES THE CONTRACTOR AGAINST AND SHALL HOLD IT HARMLESS FROM\nONE/ ANY TOTAL LOSS PAREN WHICH SHALL INCLUDE DAMAGE RENDERING REPAIR\nIMPRACTICAL OR UNECONOMICAL PAREN OF ANY AIRCRAFT OF THE CONTRACTOR ENGAGED\nIN OPERATION TO OR FROM VIETNAM CMA INCLUDING ANY PERIOD WHEN SUCH AIRCRAFT\nMAY BE ON THE GROUND IN VIETNAM CMA IN AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THAT FOR WHICH THE\nCONTRACTOR OTHERWISE INSURES SUCH AIRCRAFT WHILE NOT ENGAGED IN SUCH OPERAT\nCMA AND FOR DAMAGE TO SUCH AIRCRAFT NOT AMOUNTING TO TOTAL LOSS THEREOF III\nAN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE COST TO THE CONTRACTOR OF REPAIRING SUCH DAMAGE AND\nRESTORING SUCH AIRCRAFT TO AIRWORTHY 'CONDITION CMA BUT NOT MORE THAN THE\nAMOUNT WHICH WOULD BE APPLICABLE TO TOTAL LOSS THEREOF CMA AND\nTWO/ ALL LOSSES OR DESTRUCTION OF OR DAMAGE TO ANY OF THE CONTRACTORS\nPROPERTY PAREN OTHER THAN AIRCRAFT PAREN CMA USED IN THE PERFORMANCE OF\nSERVICES REFERRED TO IN ONE ABOVE CMA AND ALL LOSSES AND EXPENSES PAREN INC\n(cont'c)\nUSE\nCALY\nTHIS\nMESSAGE\nTEM\nSE\nINDICATED\n51\nCROSSING\nOUT\nTHE\nPRICRITY\nDATE April 04 1975\nPAGE TWO\nHEADQUARTERS\nMILITARY AIRLIFT COMMAND\nXXXXXXXXX\nSCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, ILLINOIS\nLEGAL FEES AND EXPENSES PAREN INCURRED BY THE CONTRACTOR IN THE DEFENSE\nOR DISCHARGE OF CLAIMS OF OTHERS RESPECTING PROPERTY OR RESPECTING DEATH\nCMA DISEASE CMA DISABILITY CMA INJURY CMA OR IMPAIRMENTS OF RIGHTS OF\nPERSONS CMA INCLUDING EMPLOYEES OF THE CONTRACTOR CMA ARISING OUT OF OR III\nANY MANNER CONNECTED WITH THE OPERATION OF ANY AIRCRAFT IN THE PERFORMANCE\nOF SERVICES REFERRED TO IN ONE AEOVE STP THE INDENNITIES PROVIDED FOR ABOVE\nIN THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL BE APPLICABLE WHETHER OR NOT THE LOSS IS CAUSED\nBY ANY ACT OF NEGLIGENCE ON THE PART OF THE CONTRACTOR CMA ITS OFFICERS\nCMA AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH OPERATION OF SUCH AIRCRAFT\nEND\nPAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC.\nJAMES J. RICE\nSTAFF VICE PRESIDENT-\nMILITARY TRAFFIC\nApril 28, 1975\nMEMORANDUM FOR:\nGENERAL SCOWCROFT\nFORD & GERALD LIBRARY\nFROM:\nL. DEAR B BROWN\nPlease pass as soon as possible to FRIEDERSDORF AND\nMARRS\nCongressman Moss called me. He wanted briefing on\nrefugee problem, specifically as it would involves\nCalifornia. He was not aware of what is now being\nconsidered.\nI told him we would be back to him later. I defer\nto you as to how to handle this. Please advise.\nApril 29\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nwashington\nTO:\nTED MARRS\nFROM: JOHN O. MARSH, JR.\nFor Direct Reply\nFor Draft Response\nXX\nFor Your Information\nPlease Advise\nFORD & 0ERALD LIBRARY\nIT\nTRANSMITTED BY:\nRECEIVED BY:\n(Date & Time Stamp)\nDEPAR MENT your OF STATE\n(Date & Time Stamp)\nWHITE\nHOUSEM\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\nOperations Center\nLDX MESSAGE RECEIPT\n75 MAY I AM 10.27 21\n333 APR 31 AM in 10\nS/S #\nBDJN\nLDX MESSAGE NO: 1215\nr\nCLASSIFICATION UNCLASS\nNO. PAGES 5\n,\nDESCRIPTION OF MSG. Telegrom to Governown\nFROM: CD BROWN , LATF , 23182 , 7516\nOfficer\nOffice Symbol\nExtension\nRoom Number\nLDX TO:\nDELIVER TO:\nEXTENSION:\nROOM NUMBER:\nWH\n,\nGan SCOWCPOFT\n.\n,\nr\n,\n,\n,\n9\n,\n,\nFOR:\nCLEARANCE III INFORMATION\n/\n/\nPER REQUEST\n/\nCOMMENT\n/\n/\nREMARKS:\nVALIDATED FOR TRANSMISSION BY:\nExecutive Secretariat M Officer\nA\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\nDids\nWashington, D.C. 20520\nMay 1, 1975\nMEMORANDUM FOR:\nGENERAL SCOTCROFT\nFROM:\nL. DEAN BROWN\nI would appreciate your passing this note and\ndraft message to Ted Marrs. I propose sending\nthis cable to the Governors of the fifty States.\nIt could be helpful. Won't do if White House\nhas any doubts.\nUNCLASSIFIED\nIATF :FGWISNER: JLB\n4/30/75 EXT: 23840\nIATF :LDBROWN\nS/S-0: JHOGANSON\nBERALD FORD LIBRARY\nIMMEDIATE\nLDB\nE.O. 11652:\nFGW\nTAGS:\nJH\nSUBJECT:\nRESETTLEMENT OF VIETNAMESE IN THE UNITED STATES\n1. AS A RESULT OF THE TRAGEDY IN VIETNAM THE PRESIDENT HAS\nAUTHORIZED THE ADMISSION TO THE UNITED STATES OF UP TO\n130,000 VIETNAMESE CITIZENS. THE LARGEST PERCENTAGE OF\nTHESE UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE ARE RELATIVES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS\nOR PERMANENT RESIDENTS. THE OTHERS, AS MANY AS 50,000 ARE\nTHOSE WE CALL HIGH RISK, MEANING THEIR LIVES WOULD BE IN\nDANGER IF THEY HAD REMAINED IN VIETNAM.\n2.. IN THIS CABLE I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU A PICTURE OF WHAT\nWE ARE DOING TO MAKE THE RESETTLEMENT OF VIETNAMESE AS HU-\nMANE AND DECENT AS POSSIBLE AND TO AVOID HARDSHIP TO COM-\nMUNITIES WHERE THEY WILL LIVE. IT IS A TASK IN WHICH I\nHOPE ALL AMERICANS WILL PARTICIPATE.\n3. WE CURRENTLY ESTIMATE THAT AS MANY AS 70,000 VIETNAMESE\nHAVE LEFT THEIR COUNTRY TO DATE THROUGH THE AMERICAN AIR\nAND SEALIFT AND MORE ARE EXPECTED. NOW THAT WE HAVE BEGUN\nMOVEMENTS TO RECEPTION CENTERS, WE EXPECT 5,000 A DAY TO\nARRIVE IN THE UNITED STATES AT DESIGNATED RECEPTION CENTERS.\nUNCLASSIFIED\nFORM DS 322A{0CR}\nUNCLASSIFIED\n2\n4. WE HAVE TWO PROBLEMS: {A} REUNITING VIETNAMESE WITH\nTHEIR AMERICAN FAMILIES AND SPONSORS; {B} FINDING PERMANENT\nHOMES FOR THE HIGH RISK VIETNAMESE CESTIMATED 50,000}. WE\nBELIEVE THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACT WILL BE MINIMAL.\nTHOSE AMERICANS WITH VIETNAMESE DEPENDENTS ARE WIDELY DIS-\nPERSED. FOR THOSE COMING WITHOUT SPONSORS, OUR POLICY IS\nTO SHARE THE RESPONSIBILITY EQUITABLY AMONG ALL REGIONS OF\nTHE UNITED STATES. THE VIETNAMESE COMING TO THE UNITED\nSTATES ARE PREDOMINANTLY A SKILLED GROUP; MANY HAVE ENGLISH\nCAPABILITY.\n5. RESETTLEMENT WILL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF VOLUNTARY\nAGENCIES UHO HAVE TRADITIONALLY BEEN MOST EFFECTIVE IN\nSETTLING REFUGEES FROM ABROAD -- HUNGARIANS AND UGANDAN\nASIANS. IN ADDITION THESE AGENCIES IDENTIFY SPONSORS WHO\nPROVIDE HOUSING, JOBS, COUNSELING AND EDUCATION. MANY\nAGENCIES REPORT CHARGES WILL NOT BECOME FINANCIAL BURDENS\nTO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. THE VOLUNTARY AGENCIES\nBELIEVE ALL REFUGEES WE ARE PRESENTLY PLANNING FOR CAN BE\nEXPEDITIOUSLY RESETTLED. VOLUNTARY AGENCIES WILL AVOID\nRESETTLEMENT IN ECONOMICALLY HARD-HIT AREAS AND WILL NOT\nCONCENTRATE THE REFUGEES IN SPECIFIC LOCALITIES. THE\nVOLUNTARY AGENCIES ENGAGED IN RESETTLEMENT EFFORTS INCLUDE\nTHE FOLLOWING:\nU.S. CATHOLIC CONFERENCE\nMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICES\n1312 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N.W.\nIn\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nAMERICAN FUND FOR CZECHOSLOVAK REFUGEES\n1709 BROADWAY, ROOM 1316\nNEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019\nCHURCH WORLD SERVICE\nIMMIGRATION & REFUGEE PROGRAM\n475 RIVERSIDE DRIVE\nNEW YORK, NEW YORK 10027\nLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE\n315 PARK AVENUE SOUTH\nNEW YORK, NEW YORK 10010\nUNITED HIAS SERVICE, INC.\n200 PARK AVENUE SOUTH\nNEW YORK, NEW YORK 10003\nUNCLASSIFIED\nFORM DS 322A{0CR}\nUNCLASSIFIED\n3\nTOLSTOY FOUNDATION, INC.\n250 WEST 57TH STREET\nNEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019\nINTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE\n386 PARK AVENUE SOUTH\nNEW YORK, NEW YORK 10016\nAMERICAN COUNCIL FOR NATIONALITIES SERVICE\n20 WEST 40TH STREET\nNEW YORK, NEW YORK\nTRAVELERS AID-INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SERVICES\n345 EAST 46TH STREET\nNEW YORK, NEW YORK\nPRIVATE CONTRIBUTIONS IN MONEY OR OFFERS OF RESETTLEMENT\nSHOULD BE REFERRED DIRECTLY TO THE AGENCIES CONCERNED.\nb. WE HAVE STRONG INDICATIONS OF SUPPORT IN RESETTLEMENT\nAND JOB IDENTI ICATION FROM OTHER GROUPS INCLUDING THE\nAFL-CIO WE HAVE BEEN DELUGED WITH OFFERS OF PRIVATE\nASSISTANCE.\n?. STRENUOUS INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY. FRANCE,\nCANADA AND AUSTRALIA HAVE INDICATED THEY WILL TAKE\nVIETNAMESE REFUGEES. THERE ARE LATIN AMERICAN NATIONS\nAND COUNTRIES IN ASIA AND FRANCOPHONE AFRICA INTERESTED.\n8. TO FACILITATE THE HEALTH AND IMMIGRATION ENTRY INTO\nTHE U.S., WE HAVE SET UP OUR STAGING AREAS IN GUAM AND\nUAKE. OUR HEALTH VERIFICATION SYSTEM IS RIGOROUS. THE\nARMY MEDICAL CORPS TOGETHER WITH HEW (PUBLIC HEALTH\nSERVICE -- CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL PHYSICIANS AND OTHER\nHEALTH PERSONNEL} ARE STRONGLY REPRESENTED ON GUAM. THE\nREFUGEES ARE IN GOOD HEALTH AND POSE NO MORE OF A PROBLEM\nTO THE HEALTH OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC THAN THOUSANDS OF\nOTHER TRAVELERS WHO ENTER THIS COUNTRY ANNUALLY FROM SOUTH-\nEAST ASIA. [OF 29,000 REFUGEES ON APRIL 30 IN GUAM, ONLY\nABOUT 80 HAVE BEEN HOSPITALIZED DUE TO SUCH CONDITIONS AS\nMEASLES, MILD DIARRHEA, MATERNITY AND PNEUMONIA BUT NO\nSERIOUS DISEASE OR COMMUNICABLE DISEASE.} AT THIS TIME,\nTHERE ARE NO UNUSUAL HEALTH PROBLEMS PRESENT AND WE ARE\nMAINTAINING EXPERT {CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL} SUR-\nVEILLANCE. THE NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF THE REFUGEES IS SUR-\nPRISINGLY GOOD. FURTHER HEALTH AND CURATIVE TREATMENT AND\nPREVENTATIVE MEASURES WILL TAKE PLACE IN RECEPTION CENTERS.\nLOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES WILL BE ALERTED FOR ANY APPROPRI-\nATE FOLLOW ON. SHOULD INDIVIDUAL CASES REQUIRE IT.\nUNCLASSIFIED\nFORM DS 322A{0CR}\nUNCLASSIFIED\nI\n4\n9. STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES WILL SUFFER NO DIRECT FIS-\nCAL HARDSHIP AND LITTLE INDIRECT HARDSHIP FROM THE INFLUX.\nTHE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS SEEKING AUTHORIZATION AND FUND-\nINS FROM THE CONGRESS ON AN URGENT BASIS TO PROVIDE: RE-\nSETTLEMENT, HEALTH, INCOME MAINTENANCE, AND SOCIAL SERVICE\nFUNDS TO REIMBURSE 100% OF THE COSTS INCURRED FOR THESE\nSERVICES. BACK-UP FEDERAL FUNDING AUTHORITY EXISTS FOR\nANY RESIDUAL PROBLEMS WHICH INDIVIDUAL CASES MAY PRESENT.\nHEU IS ALSO PREPARED TO PROVIDE FULL ASSISTANCE FOR DESTI-\nTUTE REPATRIATES AND THEIR DEPENDENTS AS SOON AS CONGRESS\nMAKES FUNDS AVAILABLE. ALSO ADDITIONAL MONEYS FOR VOLUN-\nTARY AGENCY RESETTLEMENT AND TRANSPORTATION SUPPORT AND\nRECEPTION CENTER COSTS.\n10. THREE RECEPTION CENTERS HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED TO RE-\nCEIVE THOSE ARRIVING -- CAMP PENDLETON {CALIFORNIA}, CAMP\nCHAFFEE {ARKANSAS}, EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE {FLORIDA}. WE\nAND THE VOLUNTARY AGENCIES ANTICIPATE BEING ABLE TO PRO-\nCESS THOSE ARRIVING QUICKLY. SCREENING AND COUNSELING\nSERVICES FOR FAMILIES WHOSE SPONSORS ARE READY TO RECEIVE\nTHEM SHOULD TAKE LESS THAN A WEEK. OTHER FAMILIES SHOULD\nBE ON THEIR WAY TO NEW HOMES AND JOBS WITHIN A REASONABLE\nPERIOD OF TIME, MANY OF THEM IN A FEW WEEKS.\nDEAN BROWN\nSPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE AND\nDIRECTOR OF THE INTER-AGENCY\nTASK FORCE FOR THE PRESIDENT\nUNCLASSIFIED\nFORD i LIBRARY GERALD\n[Man 1975]\nSCOWCROFT FROM BROWN\nPlease pass following to. Jack Marsh as soon as possible.\nHerewith the list of the voluntary agencies who are\ncooperating directly with us at this time on Vietnamese\nrelief. I think a phone call to Sternberg from the\nWhite House would be useful. He should be told that the\nAdvisory Commission will bolster the efforts of the\nVOLAGS and that the USG is confident that the agencies\nwill continue their great work and is deeply appreciative.\nPass to Ted Marrs via\nJun\nVOLUNTARY AGENCIES - BACKGROUND\nOrganization\n--Central coordinating agency is American Council of Voluntary\nAcencies\nFor refugees it has a Refugee and Migration Committee\nheaded by Charles Sternberg\nCast of Characters\n--Members of VOLAG Committee who may be present are:\n(1) International Rescue Committee\n-- Charles Sternberg, Exec. Director\n(2) Church World Services\n(Under National Council of Churches)\nBERALD FORD LIBRARY\n--- John Schauer\n(3) Lutheran Refugee Committee\n-- Donald Anderson\n(4) Catholic Migration Conference\n-- John McCarthy, Coordinator\n(5) Tolstov Foundation\n-- Mr. Toma\nInemigation and\n(5) United HIAS (Hebrew Int 1 Assistance Service)\n- Gaynor Jacobson\n(7) American Fund for Czech Relief\n--- Dr. Papanek.\nOthers\n--- ICRC and YMCA may also be represented.\nVietnamese\nMay 2, 1975\nDear Mr. Scott:\nYour letter of April 26 was received\nFORD z LIBRARY 038870\non May and immediately referred to\nAmbassador Brown.\nI understand your concern.\nSincerely,\nTheodore C. Marrs\nSpecial Assistant to the President\nMr. Donald W. Scott\nP.O. Box 844\nS. Harwich, Massachusetts 02661\nDear\nel your request SEKI a cable with The rame\nwhits tspoke with you Priday afternoon and\nshould be Takin our. of There 1 also Think The\nof our Vistramsse friends in Saigur who we beli\n\\ had l'atter pier There Mames on paper for\noffice\n1\nHayah Ngoc Duong age 33\n2)\nDeo Nary Phan go 33 (coife)\nW/\nHuyveh Ngoc Due egr 8 (danght\n4\nHegith Ngoc Nhuar\nage 6 (son)\nAs 1 mertionad To you on The phone Do Mai\n1 bolicus That This Family dozs dassiue some\noora of work in support of k.s\nspecial consideral: considering his afforts and\nSaidh Victkam.\n\\ have bsen in Tonch A Them\nTo bring Them out Following one phane commissed\nVia mail E They have requested ow, assis Taxes\n1 have sent over several cables in hopes T\none might GET Three To Them. Farther 1 have\nFORD & LIBRARY\n431 Nguyer Tri Phuows,\nSaiga 10, Someh Visitian\nThank you For your interestru This case\nSincerely,\n5\nrarC the\nw\n7 The\nU\nnoth\nridg\nwhat\nEPARTMENT OF\nSTAT\nMay. 5, 1975\nNo. 230\nFORD & LIBRARY\nASSISTANCE TO INDOCHINA REFUGLES -------\nTOLL-FREE NUMBER ESTABLISHED FOR THE PUBLIC\nThe Inter-Agency Indochina Task Force has been receiving hundreds of\ntelephone calls a day from Americans who wish to sponsor a specific\nVietnamese family or are willing to offer such sponsorship or other\nassistance to families selected by resettlement agencies. All such\ncalls should now be directed to the following toll-free number:\n800-368-1180 (or simply 632-9800 if the caller is in the D.C. area). A\nbank of telephones will be manned by operators who will ask for the\nparticulars which the voluntary resettlement agencies require in order\nto match sponsors with appropriate families after they arrive at one of\nthe three reception centers in the United States: Camp Pendleton,\nCalifornia; Fort Chaffee, Arkansas; or Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.\nMembers of the public who have previously filed or mailed affidavits of\nsupport, or who have notified their local Immigration and Naturalization\nService of their willingness to sponsor a specific family, are advised to\nrepeat this information to an operator at the toll-free 800-368-1180 offi\nIndividuals wishing to make cash contributions may send their checks to\nthe local chapter of the American Red Cross marked for \"Assistance to\nRefugees from Indochina,\" or to any of the following voluntary agencies:\nU.S. CATHOLIC CONFERENCE 205/659-6630\nMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICES\n1312 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE, N.W.\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\nAMERICAN FUND FOR CZECHOSLOVAK REFUGEES 212/265-1919\n1709 BROADWAY, ROOM 1316\nNEW YORK, N.Y. 10019\nCHURCH WORLD SERVICE\n212/870-2162-5\nIMMIGRATION & REFUGEE PROGRAM\n475 RIVERSIDE DRIVE\nNEW YORK, N.Y. 10027\nLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE 212/677-3950\n315 PARK AVENUE SOUTH\nNEW YORK, N.Y. 10010\nUNITED HIAS SERVICE, INC. 212/674-6800\n200 PARK AVENUE SOUTH\nNEW YORK, N.Y. 10003\nTOLSTOY FOUNDATION, INC. 210/247-2922\n250 WEST 57th STREET\nNEW YORK, N.Y. 10019\n-2-\nPR# 230\nINTERNATIONAL 386 PARK AVENUE RESCUE SOUTH COMMITTEE 212/679-0010\nNEW YORK, N.Y. 10016\nAMERICAN COUNCIL FOR NATIONALITIES SERVICE 212/SPT-8210\n20 WEST 40th STREET\nNEW YORK, N.Y.\nTRAVELER'S 345 EAST 46th AID-INTERNATIONAL STREET SOCIAL SERVICES 912/687-5958\nNEW YORK, N.Y.\nThe Inter-Agency Indochina Task Force has also been receiving hundreds\nof calls from Americans seeking information on the whereabouts of\nrelatives and friends who may have been evacuated from Vietnam and who\nhave not yet arrived in this country. Because of the numbers of\nevacuees involved, their widely-scattered locations, even on the singl\nisland of Guam, and the pace of their onward movement to the continent\nUnited States, it has not been possible to devise an acceptable locato\nsystem and callers have been advised to await word that is certain to\ncome to them from the incoming families. The public is urged not to\nattempt to telephone Guam or any of the three reception centers in an\neffort to find Vietnamese families. Such calls tie up the switchboard\nand delay a self-locating process on the part of the refugees who are\ntrying to reach their American friends. Self-locating is in fact well\nunder way, as the families and friends of the 10,000 Vietnamese who ha\nalready left the three reception centers for their new communities can\nattest.\nSPONSORSHIP INFORMATION FORMAT\nLast Name:\nFirst:\nInitial:\nStreet:\nCity:\nState:\nZip:\nOffice Phone:\nHome Phone:\nSponsoring on behalf of (circle one): 1. Yourself individually\n2. Business firm\n3. Church or organization\nIf sponsoring as an individual, your occupation:\nIf applicable, Name of sponsoring firm or organization:\nIf applicable, name of specific family (head of household) you\nwish to Sponsor:\nFamily Name:\nGiven Names:\nIf non-specific offer, size of family you wish to sponsor:\nSponsorship offer is (circle one):\nTemporary Long-Term\nCategory of Sponsorship (circle one):\n1. Offer of General responsibility\n2. Offer of financial assistance\n3. Offer of shelter\n4. Offer of food and shelter\n5. Offer of employment (Skills required)\nComments:\nDate of Contact:\nPerson taking call:\neg IATF of Cenler\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE, U.S. A.\nAN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER\nWASHINGTON, D. C. 20520\nPOSTAGE AND FEES PAID\nOFFICIAL BUSINESS\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\nPENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE $300\nU.S.MAIL\nSTA-501\nDr. Throdoce marrs\nThe white House\nWashington, D.C. 20500\nattention mrs Shetton\nRefugee\nMay 5, 1975\nProgram\nDear Dean:\nFor your information and appropriate action.\nThanks.\nFORD w 03RALD LIBRARY\nSincerely,\nTheodore C. Marrs\nSpecial Assistant to the President\nAmbassador L. Dean Brown\nDirector\nInteragency Task Force on\nVietnam\nOperations Center\nDepartment of State\nWashington, D. C. 20520\nEnclosure\nGURGERY\nTHE HAND\nALFRED B. SWANSON, M.D., F.A.C.S.\n774-7394\nTELEPHONES:\n313 BLODGETT MEDICAL BUILDING\n456-5568\nGRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN 49506\nApril 28, 1975\nDear Doctor Marrs:\nThank you for your note with regards the South Vietnamese problem.\nI do hope that you will forward the names of Dr. Lam and Dr. Linh\nfor their possible evacuation from Saigon.\nI am enclosing a copy of a recent television editorial which I gave,\nfor your interest.\na Sincerely yours,\nAlfred B. Swanson, M.D.\nChairman, American Society for\nSurgery of the Hand\nVolunteers for Vietnam\nTheodore C. Marrs, M.D.\nSpecial Assistant to the President\nThe White House\n1600 Pennsylvania Avenue\nWashington, D.C.\nEnclosed coly Telegroun\nPhone beep !\nbe\nFollowing telegram sent to Mr. Philip W. Buchen\nCounsel to the President\nThe White House\nIsaiah H. Jackson, M.D.\nWashington, D.C.\nc/o the IndoChina Desk\nof the State Department\nConsulate Section\nWashington, D.C.\nAmerican Embassy\nSaigon, South Vietnam\nHave received cables begging for help - Doctors and families who helped us in our\nVietnam program:\nDr. and Mrs. Le-the-Linh\n34 Mac kinh Chi St.\nSaigon, South Vietnam\nDr. and Mrs. Buy-Huy-Lam\n155B Truong-Minh-Giang\nSaigon, South Vietnam\nDr. and Mrs. Pham van Hai\n26 Truong-Minh-Giang\nSaigon, South Vietnam\nGratefully,\nAlfred B. Swanson, M.D.\nCharrman American Society for\nSurgery of the Hand\nVolunteers for Vietnam\nWOTV\nEDITORIAL\ntv8time -life broadcast\nWhen the subject of a WOTV editorial is controversial, we\nshall make time available for other substantial points of vie\n120 college ave., s.e.\nbox B\ngrand rapids, michigan 49501\n(616) 459-4125 BB\nWEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1975\nThe following, by Dr. Alfred B. Swanson, is a rebuttal to our editorial\nof April 1, 1975.\nI think historians will record America's efforts in South Vietnam as most\nnoble but clumsy. We did give our sons and riches unselfishly, but we\nnever really gave our heart. Routing out the guerrillas by the peasants\nrequired a willingness to die for a cause they could not rationalize.\nThey could see little to die for. The much needed humanitarian and social\naid for the South Vietnamese was of the lowest Government priority. Our\nleaders thought our military build-up alone would insure victory against\nthe enemy, nothing could be further from the truth. We needed both.\nIt is said that the horrors of war are best realized in the surgeon's\ntent. I have had small children die in my arms of the long neglected\nwounds from a Communist mortar attack on their village in the Delta. I\nhave seen young mothers die of wounds from Red guerrilla terror squads\nas I tried to care for them in the unbelievable squalor of the only pro-\nvince hospital in Quang Ngai. Those of us who volunteered medical care\nto that country on repeated occasions, came back to tell the story of the\nfantastic medical and social indigency to the Administration and Congress-\nional Committees and anyone we could stop, but we were always met with a\ndeaf ear or a pass of the buck to another department. I remember the\nSouth Vietnamese as brave, lovely and gracious people. It is easy to\nmourn for them.\nI think that there will be many wet eyes at the open grave of South\nVietnam, but we should also weep with a greater sadness for ourselves\nwhen we realize that we did not fight the right kind of battle for them.\nWe had the opportunity to demonstrate what a healthy democracy could do\nfor a suffering friend. For a fraction of the cost of the military effort,\nwe could have also shown to the Vietnamese and to the watching world that\nAmerica was also truly concerned with the total welfare of that struggling\nnation.\nWe now attempt to atone for our guilt by importing beautiful orphaned\nchildren whom we helped create. We must likewise be concerned for aiding\nPAGE 2\nWEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1975\nthe millions of refugees and for protecting our South Vietnamese friends\nwho will die in a blood bath if Saigon falls to the Communists.\nWe should at this point in history begin the greatest internal evaluation\nof our foreign policy and methods so that this nation can continue to be\nan influence for liberty and democracy in the world. We should not\ninvolute and run from our responsibilities to our fellow man because of\nthe terrible experience of Vietnam. Rather, we should conceive and\ndevelop a new American Revolution which will be to anticipate and solve\nthe overwhelming problems that man faces from his environment as he\nheads into the twenty-first century. This time it must be a total\ncommitment of active concern or nature will surely destroy us.\nThank you.\n-0-\nTORD\nGERALD\nLIBRARY\nTRANSMITTED BY:\nRECEIVED BY:\n(Date & Time Stamp)\n(Date & Time Stamp)\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\nWHITE HOUSE\nDEPARTMENT OF STATE\n00M\nOperations Center\n6\nLDX MESSAGE RECEIPT\n'75 MAY 6 PM 4:21\n1975 MAY\nS/S #\nBow\nUNCLASSIFIED\nLDX MESSAGE NO.\n166\n,\nCLASSIFICATION\n,\nNO. PAGES If 3\nDESCRIPTION OF MSG. EMER. JEWISH CMMITTEE STATEMENT ON INDOCHINA REFUGEES\nLDBROWN\nFROM:\nIATF\nD\n632-3840\n7516\nn\n,\nOfficer\nOffice Symbol\nExtension\nRoom Number\nLDX TO:\nDELIVER TO:\nEXTENSION:\nROOM NUMBER:\nGEN SCOWCROFT\nWHITE HOUSE\n456-1414\nWEST WING\n,\n#\nB\n,\n,\n,\n.\n1\n,\n,\no\nFOR:\nCLEARANCE %\nINFORMATION\n/\nPER REQUEST\n/\nCOMMENT\n/\n/\nREMARKS:\nVALIDATED FOR TRANSMISSION BY:\nExecutive 1 Secretariat P. md/5\nOfficer\nMay E, 1975\nMEMORANDUM FOR:\nGENERAL SCOWCROFT\nFROM:\nL. DEAN BROWN\nHyman Bookbinder sent us the attached resolution.\nYou might send copies to Ron Nessen and Ted Marrs.\nMany thanks.\nTHE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE\nSTATEMENT ON INDO-CHINA REFUGEES\nThe American Jowish Committee views with profound concern\nthe human tragedy that has unfolded in Indo-China, where the\nhorrors of war, and social and political upheaval have once again\nclaimed the innocent as victim. As an organization with a long-\nstanding commitment to the principle of fundamental human rights\nfor all people and to humanitarian relief wherever it is needed,\nwe urge the United Nations to call upon the present governmental\nauthorities in Indo-China to respect the right to every person\nto leave and to seek asylum and resettlement in the country of\ntheir choice. This basic human right is clearly enunciated in\nthe Universal Declaration of Human Rights which guarantees to\neveryone \"the right to leave any country, including their own,\"\nand in other international agreements.\nWe further urge the United Nations to call upon these\ngovernments to protect the peoples within their jurisdiction\nfrom reprisals and to admit a United Nations committee of impar-\ntial observers into the area.\nWe commend the United States Government for receiving those\nrefugees of Indo-China who have sought admission as immigrants.\nWe hope that our government will continue to follow its tradi-\ntional policy of granting such rights under the appropriate\nPage 2 of 2 pages\nContinued -\nThe American Jewish Committec/Statement on Indo-China Refugees\nprovisions of our existing immigration statutes. And we also\ncall upon other governments to open their doors to the new\nrefugees.\nWe welcome the recently announced United States program to\nfacilitate absorption of the new immigrants in a fair and com-\npassionate manner and call upon our government to assist the\nagencies currently engaged in relief and humanitarian efforts\nin INdo-China.\nWe are confident that Americans will respond generously\nto those agencies' appeals for assistance. And we join with\nmen and women of good will everywhere in the fervent desire for\nan end to the war and suffering in Indo-China and with it, true\npeace and reconciliation in the area.\nAdopted by\n69th Annual Meeting\nAmerican Jewish Committee\nWaldorf Astoria\nNew York City\nMay 3, 1975\n75-105-1\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nWASHINGTON\nDate\nMay 8, 1975\nTO:\nDR. TED MARRS\nFROM: JIM CAVANAUGH\nX FYI\nFor appropriate action\nCOMMENTS\nBERALD R. FORD LIBRABY MAY\n7\n1975\nTO ALL ORGANON INC. EMPLOYEES\nSeveral Vietnamese nationals have been employed for some 10 to-20\nyears by an Organon International distributorship agency in Saigon.\nIn light of recent developments in Vietnam, of course there has\nbeen concern for the safety and welfare of these long term employees\nand their dependents who have served the interests of Organon so\nably over the years.\nAkzo Pharma, Organon International, Akzona and Organon Inc. manage-\nments feel an obligation exists to those who have contributed so\nmany years of service and loyalty to our company. Management has\naffirmed, therefore, its wish to assume responsibility for and\nassurance of the livelihood of these 10 employees and their depen-\ndents in the United States.\nThese people were part of the recent evacuation from Vietnam and\nwere airlifted to Guam a few days ago. Recently they were flown\nto Camp Pendleton in California with many others from their country.\nWe expect our eight or nine families to arrive in the New Jersey\narea soon. Several nearby colleges have offered to help lodge\nthem in their dormitory facilities over the summer weeks. During\nthis time we will be seeking to place approximately 10 people in\nappropriate jobs at Organon Inc. and Info Chem.\nIn a memo of policy concerning this matter, Claude Ramsey, President\nof Akzona, sums up the company's direction as follows:\n\"The major thrust of this policy is this: We not\nonly take the people into our country and into\nour company; we take them into our heart.\"\nHaving lost virtually everything, including their homes and country,\nwe know you join with us in welcoming our Vietnamese associates into\nthe United States and into our Organon family.\nI have been assigned the responsibility for coordinating this under-\ntaking. Bernard Konopko will accompany the group in transit from\nCalifornia to New Jersey and otherwise assist me. Joseph Castellano\nwill help with appropriate relocation and personnel matters.\nIf you have any information which will help us better implement this\neffort, please contact either Bernie or Joe or myself. We appreciate\nyour cooperation in helping to make this difficult adjustment as pain-\nless and pleasant as possible for all concerned.\nRichard Richard A. Ulrey a. Why\nMay 6, 1975\nSHINGTON 7 PM MAY of 200\nMASHINGTON MAY - 7'75\nU.S. POSTAGE\nMCMURRAY AND PENDERGAST\nNA\n1019 19TH STREET, N.W.\nPRE\nWASHINGTON, D. C. 20036\nRVATION\nE 0.1 0\n1975\nD.C.\nRBMETER\n1222562\nMr. James Cavanaugh\nDeputy Director\nThe Domestic Council\nThe White House\nWashington, D. C."
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