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escaped earlier. But by chance these people proved to
be total strangers, with names confusingly identical to
her aunt and uncle's, thereby misleading the Americans
in charge of Vietnamese refugees, who had processed
Chin. Her true relatives had been misplaced somewhere
else in the United States (and were, in fact, managing a
Burger King restaurant in Cincinnati). With the best will
in the world, Operation Rescue and Resettlement,
working in haste, was losing people right and left.
Good Samaritans were running away with the
homeless before they could be registered; childless
couples were grabbing round-faced orphans right off
the airline counters; needy hospitals were hauling away
M.D.s who would, as one administrator phrased it,
"work like coolies for peanuts" as Americans opened
their arms in this crisis, aroused to goodwill by the
titillation of catastrophe.
Victor Grabaski, by default her oldest friend now,
had finally arranged (through union contacts) for Chin
Lam to be hired at Dingley Optical Instruments. But
before she had to begin assembling binoculars (or
repaying Victor in the currency he had slowly realized