US policies and initial evacuation efforts

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Across
  1. 1. In which country are Clark Air Base and Subic Bay, which also hosted transit and processing hubs? (11 letters)
  2. 3. Which operation, announced on 3 April 1975, aimed to evacuate Vietnamese orphans for adoption? (8 letters)
  3. 5. Besides Guam, which Pacific island hosted a transit and processing hub? (4 letters)
  4. 6. What word describes the US economic downturn, with high unemployment, that shaped public reaction to the refugees in 1975? (9 letters)
  5. 10. Which word completes the name of the largest helicopter evacuation in history, Operation ___ Wind? (8 letters)
  6. 12. The Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act passed with strong support of what kind, meaning that both parties backed it? (10 letters)
  7. 13. What name was given to the individuals, families, religious groups and community organisations that helped refugees find homes and jobs? (8 letters)
  8. 15. What was the name of the ‘tent city’ on Guam’s Orote Field, Camp ___, which housed around 50,000 people at its peak? (7 letters)
  9. 17. Desperate crowds tried to scale the walls of which US building in Saigon, in images broadcast worldwide? (7 letters)
  10. 18. Which word completes the name of the Act signed on 23 May 1975: the Indochina ___ and Refugee Assistance Act? (9 letters)
  11. 20. Which US president authorised several emergency measures to evacuate people from Saigon? (4 letters)
  12. 21. In which country was the Sa Kaeo camp that she visited? (8 letters)
  13. 27. The first official Babylift flight ended in disaster when a C-5 transport plane of which name crashed shortly after take-off? (6 letters)
  14. 29. What word describes the initial US actions, which were driven by events rather than by a pre-existing refugee policy? (8 letters)
Down
  1. 2. What status allowed refugees to enter the United States outside the regular immigration quotas and procedures? (6 letters)
  2. 3. What is the surname of L. Dean ___, the Special Representative who gave the statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Source A? (5 letters)
  3. 4. Which type of aircraft did the final evacuation of Saigon rely on, because Tan Son Nhat Air Base was unusable for fixed-wing aircraft? (11 letters)
  4. 7. In which Florida town did a radio poll find that 80% of residents did not want more refugees resettled there? (9 letters)
  5. 8. In Source A, the gradual arrival of which group over several years had given the US more flexibility than it had in 1975? (6 letters)
  6. 9. Which part of the US government rejected the Ford administration’s request that linked refugee aid with military assistance to South Vietnam? (8 letters)
  7. 11. What word describes the choice made by about 1546 refugees who returned to Vietnam? (12 letters)
  8. 14. What kind of obligation did President Ford say the US had to its allies who had supported the US cause? (5 letters)
  9. 16. Which word completes the name of the Government ___ Office, whose 1976 analysis found high costs and flaws in the management of supplies? (14 letters)
  10. 19. Which US Pacific territory became the main hub, processing around 111,000 refugees? (4 letters)
  11. 22. Which word completes the name of the operation that applied the IMRAA in practice: Operation New ___? (4 letters)
  12. 23. Besides ‘communist infiltration’, what did some Americans fear the refugees would bring? (7 letters)
  13. 24. Which Representative asked whether federal money should be spent on Vietnamese refugees or on Detroit ‘refugees’? (7 letters)
  14. 25. Which camp in California was one of the four main reception centres in the United States? (9 letters)
  15. 26. Which organisation’s poll in May 1975 found that 54% of Americans opposed admitting Vietnamese refugees? (6 letters)
  16. 28. What was the surname of the First Lady who visited Cambodian refugees at Sa Kaeo camp in November 1979? (6 letters)