SYNAGOGUES Boat People Adopted By Temple Find Success On West Coast ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM Features Editor D ang Lieng didn't know a word of Eng- lish when he arrived in the United States. He didn't understand work schedules and he had never driven a car. Today, Lieng is a licensed carpenter in California. His two -oldest sons are part owners of a Chinese restaurant in a popular Los Angeles hotel. His youngest child, Soi, just graduated with honors from high school and will enter the University of California. The Liengs are the adopted family of Temple Emanu-El, which in October 1979 became the first local con- gregation to sponsor a family of Asian "boat people." After one year-and-a-half in Detroit, the Liengs moved to California to be closer to other Vietnamese and to escape the cold weather. They have stayed in contact with their friends at Temple Emanu-El. Temple member Keith Sc Designerr DESIGN-1T, INC. Custom Laminated Furniture Residential • Commercial Arriving in the United States, the Lieng family is greeted by Bea Sacks and her husband, Elaine Zaks of the Resettlement Service and Rabbi Lane Steinger. Bea Sacks recently visited the Liengs in California and found them doing well. Lieng's wife, Lan, does piecework at home on her sewing machine, Sacks said. Son Yung works for the U.S. post office and Va does com- puter work. Sacks and her husband had dinner in the restaurant owned in part by the family's two oldest sons. "They really wined and din- ed us," she said. Nothing about their early days in the United States portends the Liengs' success today. When they first arrived, the family had nowhere to stay. 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