1. After the Vietnam War, Minnesotans opened their arms to boat people and other immigrants from Southeast Asia, notably the Laotian hill people known as the Hmong. 2. But among the hill people, Secretary One is not considered to be such a bad guy. 3. But still, these hill people have left a space for optimism. 4. Day by day, more was disclosed, including the tidbit that the hill people were directly descended from Daniel Boone. 5. Now the river rats have become hill people. 6. Seeds of conflict are sown between the hill people and the Mexicans, and between the Chandlers and everyone else. 7. The hill people, the Spruills, warrant more attention because they provide the book with its scant drama. 8. The Thai economy, however troubled, now dominates Laos, which America bombed to box in the Vietnamese, and where it armed anti-communist hill people. 9. They range from hill people with guns to ghetto kids with no hope. 10. UNITED NATIONS ASYLUM FOR VIETNAMESE REFUGEES The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said that Cambodia had agreed to give temporary asylum to hill tribe people fleeing central Vietnam. |