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t w e n t y -t w o p a g e s — t w o s e c t i o n s MANCHESTER, CONN., SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1975 - VOL. XCIV, No. 182 Manchester—A City of Village Charm PRICE: FIFTEEN CENTS Cong Demands Return Of Ships and Aircraft By United Press International “the revolutionary government has News Agency reported that Prince ’The Viet Cong rulers of South Vietnam declared that it reserves for itself the Norodom Sihanouk, titular head of Cam '#1 have demanded that nations harboring right to recover this property.” bodia’s new Khmer Rouge government, 9^. Vietnamese refugees return aircraft and The Thai government, sensitive about sent Viet Cong leaders a message from ships in which they fled. relations with its new Communist Peking Wednesday congratulating them ■rhe move appeared particularly aimed neighbor, seemed unable to decide who on their victory. at Thailand and threatened a crisis in owned the planes. Thai officials first said NCNA, quoting the Khmer Rouge news already strained U.S.-Thai relations. they would return the aircraft to the Viet agency, reported Sihanouk said Cambodia Thousands of Vietnamese arrived in Cong but later said they may belong to the would cooperate in reunifying Vietnar^ Thailand aboard 129 U.‘',.-made warplanes United States. But the message did not say what form the and other aircraft following the fall of Thailand, which accused the United cooperation would take, the agency said. Saigon to the Communists earlier this States of failing to fulfill its obiigations in week. Indochina, recently announced there Viet Cong broadcasts reported a rapid The United States claims ownership of would be a massive withdrawal of U.S. series of moves designed to reorganize the planes on the basis .of aid clauses forces from the country. Thailand is the South Vietnam into a full-fledged Com prohibiting transfer of military equipment last country in the area where the U.S. munist state. to other governments. maintains troops and air bases. Saigon radio said 3,000 workers seized [\ In repeated broadcasts Friday, The Viet Normal communications with Saigon the headquarters of the Confederation of Cong and North Vietnamese demanded were out for the fourth straight day but the Labor, the umbrella organization for immediate return of the planes, ships, and French government said in Paris its South Vietnam’s unions. The broadcast Looking at the note paper which is and relocation of Vietnamese Lois Barnes and her adopted son “dozens of tons of gold and other proper Saigon Embassy reported foreign said the confederation would be replaced being sold to raise funds to help cover orphans, are Mrs. Heather Dunlap Stephen. (Herald photo by Bevins) ty.” residents are in go^ health and are being by a “liberation trade union.” expenses incurred in the evacuation and daughter, CaitliUr left, and Mrs. North Vietnam’s official Vietnam News well treated. The new regime has aiready agency, in a broadcast on Hanoi Radio, ac The embassy, which communicates via nationalized all farms, factories and cused the United States of trying to radio transmitters, said the situation in businesses in the country and ordered the “steal” the aircraft. Saigon was returning to normal. suspension of all published material not Friends of Children Launches The broadcast, monitored in Tokyo, said In Hong Kong today, the New China authorized by the new government. ___ Sale to Aid Vietnam Orphans Ford Says Refugee Funds Won’t Last WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Ford ad some 30,000 refugees at sea in an armada scattered around the country to avoid By ALICE EVANS Barnes said. This is something she and her Duniap of 318 Redwood Dr. and Mrs. Jean ministration says it is rapidly running out of fishing boats and other Vietnamese creation of a large colony in one place and husband Stanley learned when they Scott of Cross St. has been showing slides The four orphanages operated in Saigon of money to finance the care and resettle vessels. "Diey are headed for the American to spread the impact on local economies. wanted to adopt a Vietnamese child so to friends and organizations and to people by Rosemary Taylor were empty when the ment of South Vietnamese refugees. Naval Base at Subic Bay in the Philip State Department officials said Friday. that it could have “a greater chance for having baby showers for the Vietnamese Communists took over the city State Department spokesman Robert pines. None will be relocated to areas of the the future in our country,” but were un orphans in an effort to raise funds and Wednesday. Funseth said Friday the administration, Funseth said that the administration highest unemployment, they said. able to find a way to process the request. supplies for the orphanages, and later, for The Vietnamese children from the urgently needs the $327 million requested very much regretted the refusal of the “Every time, we wrote an agency, we got the evacuation of these children. orphanages were on the last baby-lift of Congress by President Ford for refugee House Thursday to appropriate the $327,- The policy will be to avoid creation of a a form letter back,”^ she said. St. Mary’s Episcopal Church recently plane which left Saigon last weekend relief. 000 requested by the President for refugee Vietnamese colony like the “Little Through a friend, they learned of the donated $2,500 to Friends of Children, Inc., That is what Mrs. Lois Barnes of 64 Funseth said that so far 117,500 asssistance. Havana” of 350,000 Cuban exiles that Open Door Society and after a year-and-a- for the children in Rosemary Taylor’s Kenneth Dr., Vernon, area representative refugees, about 7,000 of them Americans, The House debate indicated the bill was formed in Miami, said Ambassador L. half of waiting, became the proud parents orphanages after seeing one of Mrs. for Friends of Children, said. For the past are known to have been evacuated by the rejected mainly because it still included Dean Brown, head of the relocation task of Stephen, a tittle boy from Korea, two Barnes’ presentations. force. 18 months,.she has been working daily to years ago May 31. The couple also has two U.S. air and sea lift or fled on their own. Ford’s request^ authority to use military collect supplies and funds for the sick and forces in the now-completed evacuation of daughters, Becky, 7, and Cindy, 6. Friends of Children, a non-profit He said another 13,000 South Viet orphaned children in the four orphanages namese, many of them students, were in refugees from Saigon. Many members felt Instead, he said, the government will try Mrs. Barnes was on hand to assist in organization based in Darien, was formed and an intensive care unit in Saigon the United States when Saigon fell and that authority was no longer needed and to duplicate its experience with the 200,000 caring for the 42 Vietnamese orphans who to promote the well-being of orphaned, operated by Miss Taylor. must be taken care of. might erode other laws limiting presiden refugees from the 1956 Hungarian revolt, recently were housed in Stamford before abandoned, sick, injured, refugee and "All the children are out, but Rosemary Funseth said the United States will keep tial war powers. who were gradually spread throughout the continuing to their new homes in Germany otherwise needy children of Vietnam. It and the staff are still there as far as we its doors open to any more Vietnamese country, creating no recognizable and France. has helped support the children in Miss know. We all are very concerned. We also refugees who turn up. Scatter Refugees economic impact. The children ranged in age from one Taylor’s four orphanages and intensive don’t know what has happened to the han President Ford authorized immigration CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (UPI) - month to one year and included survivors care center in Saigon, and later, to provide dicapped and retarded children in one of officials to admit to the United States Refugees from Southeast Asia will be of the Air Force baby-lift plane that funds for the evacuation and re-location of “Obviously, we are not going to send the the orphanages. They were to be crashed near Saigon April 4, Mrs. Barnes these children, Mrs. Barnes said. Vietnamese refugees to areas of high un evacuated to Australia, but with the said. “We still urgently need funds to pay for employment,” said Paul Hare, an aide to civilian mail from Saigon coming to a “It was a deeply moving experience for the expenses incurred during the evacua Brown. “I believe only one in five of them stop, we just don’t know,’’ Mrs. Barnes me. Having the unique opportunity to hold, tion and re-location of the orphans,” Mrs. will have to enter the job market. The said. Gang Fight Erupts, remainder will be dependents.” to cuddle and to love these precious little Barnes said. Mrs. Barnes feels there is some confu children,’ the victims of war, has had a To raise these funds, the organization is sion in the mind of the general public profound effect on me,” she said. having a sale of note paper. The notepaper about the adoption of the Vietnamese “In general, although there was on pale blue quality stock can be ordered Several Youths Hurt orphans. "The fact is that nearly all the evidence of the lack of proper nutrition from Mrs. Barnes. The drawing on the Hardline Protestants children who have been evacuated were and some skin problems, the children paper depicts a Vietnamese child reaching other.