Letter: A Cambodian with a way out name

Sir: Further to the correspondence about names (23 and 28 September). In 1978-79, while in San Francisco, I got involved with an agency dealing with refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia. One of my jobs was to inspect the refugees' papers before putting them on their on-going flight.

A highlight was the day I processed the papers of a large Cambodian family whose seventh child had been born while they were in the transit camp, on the day when a piece of falling space mechanism landed back on earth. Somewhere in America today is a teenage boy called 'Skylab'. I often wonder how he copes with that, and what he thinks of his parents' choice.

Yours faithfully,

HILARY

Community of St Francis

Birmingham

29 September