Neil A Armstrong High School - Gyre Yearbook (Plymouth, MN)

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The Sad Story Of TTBoat PeopleT One of The more Tragic evenTs of 4979 was The cosTing ouT of The so-colled HboaT people. Who are The booT people? They are The VieTnamese refugees who es- caped by sea To SouTheosT Asia. Because of hosTiIiTy beTween Hanoi and Peking, The eThnic Chinese in VieT Nam were The vic- Tims of onTi-Chinese prejudice and were finally driven ouT of VieT Nam. The UniTed SToTes hos Taken in many of These refu- gees, like oTher counTries around The world. Some of The booT people have found iT difficulT To odjusT To a new siTuoTion - some have been placed in such seTTle- menTs as The sToTe farm in China. The peo- ple who have come To America are being welcomed, Though, and occepTed. Emerita welmmes iPope In OcTober of 4979, Pope John Paul II visiTed The UniTed SToTes, drawing crowds of Thousands in ev- ery ciTy he enTered. He Traveled To BosTon, New York, WashingTon D.C., Philadelphia, Des Moines, and Chicago . He spoke 0T TheVUniTed NaTions, 0T Madison Square Garden, and before a crowd of 75,000 people in Yankee STodium. The closesT he goT To MinnesoTa, Though, was Des Moines, Iowa. where a florisT There had arranged a display of over 3,000 flowers and The Pope celebroTed Moss ouT- doors. People all over The counTry read cbouT John Paul in The papers and onched him on Teievision. Records, T-shirTs, pens, buTTons, pennonTs, and posT- ers proclaiming The memorable visiT were pro- duced, publicizing The hisToric evenT.