Nam Wheeler

The Orange County Minority Business Council installed its first female president Friday. Nam Wheeler, a former Vietnamese refugee, was named to succeed Manuel Pena of the county's Hispanic Chamber of Commerce as president of the 4-year-old council. The organization is made up of the local black, Chinese-American, Latino, Korean and Vietnamese chambers of commerce. Wheeler is a board member of the county's Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce and is on the advisory board of Garden Grove Hospital.

The Orange County Minority Business Council installed its first female president Friday. Nam Wheeler, a former Vietnamese refugee, was named to succeed Manuel Pena of the county's Hispanic Chamber of Commerce as president of the 4-year-old council. The organization is made up of the local black, Chinese-American, Latino, Korean and Vietnamese chambers of commerce. Wheeler is a board member of the county's Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce and is on the advisory board of Garden Grove Hospital.

Representatives of Orange County Asian and Latino groups clashed Thursday night over competing proposals for redrawing the county's five supervisorial districts. The debate, part of a public hearing hosted by a special committee of supervisorial aides, focused largely around suggestions on how to draw the boundaries of District 1, which is represented by Roger R. Stanton. That district covers much of central Orange County, including Santa Ana and Fountain Valley, as well as part of Garden Grove.

Orange County's Vietnamese community and local congressmen expressed cautious optimism Wednesday over news that the United States is ready to normalize relations with Vietnam, yet opposes any deal until the Communist regime restores basic human rights to its people. But a Santa Ana woman who believes that her husband is still being held as a prisoner of war was outraged at the development.