Refugee sponsor program blamed for abuse and coercion
Report details Vietnamese refugees forced into labor and exploited by sponsors in Southern California. Accounts describe long hours, starvation, and lack of basic needs, with families living under strict control and forced religious instruction. Government task force calls breakdowns minor, while survivors seek freedom and jobs.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Tran van Son
Son
America
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Phoenix
Ariz
Hoai Anh
Red Cross
U.S
Boon Michigan town meeting mobilizes to curb vandalism
In Boon Michigan a village of 100 residents held its first town meeting to confront vandalism decay and apathy. Led by Rev Harry Trover the effort formed committees and secured promises from county and state officials aiming to lift the town's spirits and deter further decline.
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Boon, Mich
UPI
Boon
Michigan
Harry Trover
Boon Baptist Church
Trover
Wexford County
Priest-turned-bridegroom weds in D.C. civil ceremony
John J. McLaughlin, former Jesuit priest and Nixon speechwriter, wed Ann Lauenstein Dore in a brief civil ceremony. The 48-year-old, who left the Jesuits with Vatican permission, and his public relations bride planned a Bermuda honeymoon before returning to Washington.
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Washington
UPI
John J. McLaughlin
Rhode Island
Nixon
McLaughlin
Nixon White House
Ann Lauenstein Dore
Shelley Buchanan
Pat Buchanan
Gerard Reilly
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Marine commandant keeping Spartan ways
General Louis Hugh Wilson insists on unchanged Marine Corps standards and grooming rules while raising recruiting quality. He aims for 75 percent high school graduates among recruits and 90 percent or better on qualifications tests, saying today’s Marines are better educated and more professional.
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Corps
Wilson
Army
Navy
Air Force
Nude bathing ban protests at Cape Cod beach
About 1,500 people gathered at Brush Hollow Beach to protest a National Seashore nude bathing ban. Demonstrators, including 500 sunbathers, ignored possible fines and jail, while park rangers urged no arrests. Protest organizer Free the Free Beach Committee said Washington limits rights. Peter Harrington, a Plymouth writer, joined as a nude protester.
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Truro
Mass
UPI
Schooney
Schoonjongen
Cape Cod
Brush Hollow Beach
Cape Cod National Seashore
National Park Service
Vernon Hunt
Park Service
Washington
Lee Baxandall
Free the Free Beach Committee
Nuclein
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Camelot
Boon Boon, Mich
Boon Township
Trever
Detroit
New York
Father McLaughlin
Jesuits
White House
Ford
Marine Commandant
Louis Hugh Wilson
Marine Corps
U.S. Marine
Young
Institute of Life Insurance
Peter Harrington
Plymouth
Tait
Abe
Orrasa
Monument Plaza Shopping Center
Vermont
Idlenot
Illanot
Idlenot Farm Dairies, Inc
Springfield
Keene, N.H
Manchester
N.H
Greenfield
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