European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 11. 1988 the stars and stripes Page 9 Veteran insists he s amerasian s father Paradise. Calif. A a claim Hal a via Veteran May not be the father of the amerasian Girt he brought Home from Vietnam four months ago brought least to the eyes of the 16-year-old. Is this True 11 can t to act Mai said when told of the claim. I is ill love my confusion Over he relationship Between Barry mull skin and inc Gir arose when the girl s Mother. Tranh Lii a. Arrived in the United slates on Mon Day and told reporters tuyt Mai was not Huntoon s . J6. Mid tuesday thai he can t disprove the claim but insisted he is Tuyet Mai s father. "1 Mill of Fol in my heart that she s my Taid Huntoon. Bui even if she s not my daughter physically she certainly is spiritually and emotionally. All i know is thai i love tuyt Mai and Toyei Mai loves last fall the former army medic travelled to to Chi Minn City formerly Saigon and brought Tuyetmai Home to live with him and his wife Laura and their three children in the town of Paradise 200 Miles Northeast of san Francisco. The Story received International publicity. It was featured on Abc to s news program "20-Jo," and rights for a television movie were sold. Tranh said monday thai when Huntoon sent her his photo she knew he was nol tuyt Mai s father. But. Tranh said "1 told Huntoon if you arc a very kind person you will sponsor us oui because Tumcl Mai is amerasian anyway he then agreed cosponsor us. Tuyet Mai sad whoever loves me that s my father Tumcl Mai knew Barry was nol her father when he came to to Chi Minn City Bui it was Only myself and Barry and Tumcl Mai who knew inc truth. No one else Huntoon said he had no inkling Tumcl Mai might nol be his daughter until two weeks ago. When a slate department official called to inform him of Tranh s claims. Huntoon acknowledged Hal he realized on his arrival in Vietnam last year that Tranh was nol the Girlfriend he d been forced to leave behind when Helwai shipped out in 1972. He said he did t say any thing for fear that Tran i might wind up in jail. Huntoon said he remained certain Tumcl Mai was his child and that Tranh had probably adopted her. There s no emotion Between them at he said. He said Tranh has Lold immigration officials Sev eral stories in her desperation to come to America. Tranh and Uyel Mai s 7-year-old sister Are living with i vietnamese family in the Paradise area. Huntoon was 30 Yean old when he fell in love with a 17-year-old vietnamese girl. They lived to eco her for 1 / Yean. He was shipped Back to the United states in 1972 when his Girlfriend was nine months pregnant he sought immigration permits for her. But was Lold she was dead. In 985, Huntoon saw a Story in life Magazine featuring o photo of a slender Haicl eyed. Amerasian girl jelling peanuts on a Beach. She looked so much Tike him he said he was convinced sic Wai his daughter. Vietnamese refugees in a Camp in the Philippines helped him Contact the girl. After months of Clearing bureaucratic obstacles he and his attorney won per minion to bring her to the United states. It s a Chance of a lifetime illegal aliens told Harlingen Tes a now thai she has a Brand new Peon card 98-Ycnr-old Clara Esq Bado Demartinez is ready o go on to to urge other aliens who qualify for amnesty not to miss the Chance of a life time. Escoohi in a great grandmother and the nation s old est applicant under inc new immigration Lii received the i in in fear of the Border patrol and the Immi Phalinn service she asks in Spanish As the agents help her into a chair. I did. But nol any she con i Init & by urging eligible aliens to apply for legalisation by the May 4 deadline. Don t let the Chance of a lifetime pass you by la says. Under the immigration Reform and control act of 1986, a one year amnesty period began last May 5 for undocumented aliens Able to show they had lived inthe United slates illegally before Jan. I. 1982. A Phil clan Escol do de my liw with her new Green Fri. A study issued tuesday in Washington urged theirs to conduct a major marketing Effort to attract applicants because the amnesty program ii in danger of falling below its original estimate of covering 2 Mil lion aliens Are not Able to apply for cilia Enship until five years after obtaining permanent Legal Simalu. Permanent slam also was ranted to Escobedo More than a year ahead of schedule. I m very thankful for this and for All of the things inc Cord has done for me i Ghoul deserving them she said in Spanish on tuesday during a ceremony ill which she was Given a Valentine s Day card and a party. She never Learned to sneak English. I think this is great. We be been wailing for ibis said great granddaughter Rake Zaral who attended inc ceremony. Escobodo who said her husband was killed by pan Cho Villa s men in 1914 during the mexican revolution first came to the United state from Musico in 1927. She lived Here legally for 35 in sri beginning in 1927. Then in 1962, As she was returning from a visit to Mexico immigration officials at the International Ridge in the Border City of Brownsville cancelled her Ivga flatus because they thought she had been living in Mexico they sent her Back to Mexico but she returned Lostay As an illegal alien in 1979 and lives in Brownsville my her daughter and granddaughter. Whal we did was go Back to the time her card was Laken and nullify that action because it was nol a right and Correct action which gives her Legal status in this country since 1927," Mariin said. "1 think Shell probably aggressively pursue the citizenship application pretty quickly he said. Friend says mrs. Marcos scrapped plan to Fly Home Honolulu a Imelda Marcos had planned to Board a philippine air lines night for her Homeland Early tues Day Hul changed her mind. According to a leading Marcos supporter Here. Joe Laio. President of friends of mar cos was at Honolulu International air port and welcomed Fri Marcos when she arrived in a Black limousine. Dul he said she had decided even before arriving there nol to try to go Home. Lazo. A Lla Boyani travel agent and a confidant of mrs. Marcos said the fur. Mer philippine first lady wife of de posed president Ferdinand Marcos. Wanted desperately to return in Hopes of joining her 30-year-old daughter. Imee. Mrs. Marcov has said her daughter is ill in Morocco. Mrs. Marcos had been telling me of her concern with her daughter. Lazo said. She wanted very badly to go to the Philippines. Her moral obligation As a Mother is to take eare of her daughter the Philippines is the Only place Imee can impel without a passport. Imee Marcos in nolo reportedly has been living in Morocco for a year with o false passport. Over the weekend. said her daughter is ill and issued a plea to . Officials to allow Imee to go to the. United stain for treatment. . Official issued a warrant for a Nostoc s arrest after she failed to appear before a grand jury investigating alleged corruption during Marcos 20-year Rule. Lazo said mrs Marcos already had decided against leaving for her Homeland before arriving at the Airport to avoid a potential confrontation with . Officials. She showed up at the air on lot Hank supporters who had assembled to Sec her off he said. She was really planning on going said Luzo. She changed her mind be cause she raid she did t want the . State department o be a year ago when Marcos and his wife were rumoured 10 be returning to the Philippines the slate department told him that he would not be allowed to return. Marcos was ousted two years said the supporters were on hand to wish mrs. Marco Luck. He said in Felt an obligation to thank them. I. Marcos and her aides could not be reached for comment a Man who answered inc Telephone at her Home said she would not Lake Calls and referred Calls to a spokesman. The spokesman Gummo Trinidad did nos immediately return , Trnidad had said she went to the Airport to meet a former first lady arrived Al inc Airport tuesday morning in hour after an Anonymous caller Lold inc associated prob that he believed mrs. Marcos and a Large entourage would leave on a philippine airlines . Marcos Gol oui of the car posed for pictures with a group of 10 filipinos awaiting Ber arrival then got Back m Theca a minute Laler and left after aides spoiled an associated press reporter. Philippine airlines officials searched a Manila bound Jet after hearing of mrs. Marcos arrival but the flight left on schedule when it was determined that she was not , one of several Marcos aide at the Airport said mrs Marcos Wai there to pick up a visitor but he would not say who the visitor who observed mrs. Marco did nol Sec anyone gel into the ear Wither except the aides who accompanied her. Trinidad later said mrs. Marcos was greeting someone who did l show aides were unavailable later to answer further questions. Cesar b. Yumol a philippine airlines duly officer said airline of finals in Hon. Oulu Are under orders from the philippine government nol to allow the mar costs to Board any Marcos is arc banned from the Philippines by the Aquino government and Are confined to Oahu by a . Government order
