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Trouble began soon. "We're a close-knit community," says Sheriff John Madroso. "We take a strong look at outsiders." The outsiders were not only Asians from out of state, they were living five to a motel room, cooking native dishes in their kitchenettes and making good wages. "Jobs are a real emotional issue in a small town," explains Karen Wilson, head of Hawthorne's employment agency. "A lot of people voiced concern about the outsiders...
...came and sent them away. A few nights later a group of teenagers headed over to the Asians' motel, and a scuffle broke out. Dan Phi Vo, 31, was arrested for allegedly attempting to stab a local boy, jailed for two days, duly sentenced and fined $200. To the sheriff, the Asians had tried to "infiltrate" a high school dance and "mess with our kids." To Le and his UXB colleagues, Vo was a victim of small-town prejudice and misunderstanding. "It was a setup," insists UXB's acting project manager, Carolyn Reck, a former Army captain...
Just a handful of Vietnamese have chosen to remain in Hawthorne, but tension lingers. "There is nothing racist or slurist about it," insists the sheriff, "but we don't like outsiders telling us who we do like and who we don't." Vo still works as a scraphog under Le's supervision. "I've been in the U.S. for six years, and the first time I came to Hawthorne they put me in jail," says a bewildered Vo. "They have a bad feeling about Vietnamese people here...
...infrared body-heat detector was issued to a ground crew, and a night-vision camera was fixed to the nose of one civilian chopper. Yet nothing seemed to help. Anguished parents and friends tried to take comfort from seasoned mountain watchers like Lieut. Don Vickars of the Clackamas County sheriff's office. Said Vickars: "We had a case in 1975 where three kids survived through a storm in a snow cave for 14 days...
When he was marshal of the tiny (pop. 650) ranching town of Cokeville, Wyo., David Young often dressed up like an old-time sheriff and brandished his pistol at the slightest provocation. Fired eight years ago for overzealousness, he moved away, some said back to Iowa, where he had grown up an orphan obsessed with guns. Last week Young, 42, returned with a horrible vengeance...