Strangers bring hope and tests to Carbondale refugees
Sang and her family arrive in Carbondale Illinois after fleeing Vietnam. Lang enrolls her daughter Loan in Unity Point school and herself at Southern Illinois University amid local aid networks led by Father Bill Longust. Community leaders weigh costs and benefits of hosting 38 campus Vietnamese students and possibly 2000 refugees, while the Dorns help the family amid loss of papers and cash.
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Associated Press
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Carbondale
Illinois
Sang
Loan (LohAn
Unity Point
Trung
Jared Dorn
Minda
Paradise
Lang
Vietnam
Khuong
International Assistance Council of
Southern Illinois
Bill Longust
St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church
Dorns
Bill
Saigon
Siu-C
John A. Logan
Carterville
Viet
Penney’s
University Mall
Loan
Oanh
Unity Point School
Refugee family gains extended kin group in Carbondale
The Vietnamese refugee family supported by Jared and Minda Dorn expands with Viet and My joining Sang and her relatives. Trung, Sang’s brother and SIU Carbondale student, will graduate in engineering in December. Families pursue work and schooling in SIU-C, John A Logan, and local centers.
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Jared
Minda Dorn
Viet
Khuong
Sang
Carbondale
Trung
Southern Illinois University
Calif
Two youths die in East St. Louis gasoline station fire
An apparent burglary at a Clark Oil gas station in East St. Louis ended with two youths burning to death after pouring gasoline on the floor. A spokesman said a pilot light ignited the spill, triggering the fatal blaze.
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East St. Louis
Clark Oil Co
Grain export firms under U S inquiry across world shipments
Two of the globe’s largest grain companies, the Bunge Corporation and Cook Industries, along with Mississippi River Grain Elevator, Inc., are named in a widening U S investigation into the grain export trade. The probe, begun last year with bribery and druging indictments, now questions handling weighing and grading practices and possible corporate responsibility. Federal agents pursue whether company officials were involved.
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Bunge Corporation
Cook Industries, Inc
Mississippi River Grain Elevator, Inc
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