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...tattered, canvas tents that once billowed across the South Lebanese val ley near Saida (modern Sidon) have long since rotted away, and in their place the residents of Ein el Hilweh have built a Mediterranean Hooverville of plaster-sided shacks whose tin roofs clatter in the chill winter wind. The Arabs who occupy the camp are Palestinian refugees, who were assigned their 25 flat, barren acres by the United Nations after the Israeli army had driven them from their homes in north ern Palestine. The first of the homeless arrived there in 1947 just before Christmas. As their numbers swelled...
...most part, 20 years have brought extraordinarily few changes to Ein el Hilweh, whose inhabitants, like their homes, deny any appearance or admission of genuine permanence. The camp, which held only a few hundred people in 1947, now has 16,563. Unlike the first days, the people of Ein el Hilweh now see scant hope of ever returning to their homes, but they continue to live in the spirit of cruel dispossession. The roads and fetid alleys are still either choked with dust or, during the winter rains, awash in light brown mud. A few shops provide essential services-shoe...
...Their Mouths. Usually, conversation turns to the young, to the generation born and reared in Ein el Hilweh...
Answer: Angehoriger des Zolls der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik -a member of the customs office of the German Democratic Republic. Until a few years ago, such an official would have been called simply ein Beamter (an official), and he is still called just that in West Germany. But in an effort to show that their half of the country has nothing in common with the other half, East Germany's Communist bosses are inventing and adapting a whole new lexicon of words and phrases. Explains Die Freiheit, a Communist Party news paper in the East German city of Halle...
...Ein Traktorist is a tractor driver, ein Novator an innovator, ein Diversant anyone who interferes in political af fairs. Ein Objektivist sees both sides of an issue - the non-Communist as well as the Communist - and is therefore politically unreliable. Ein Skeptizist is even worse because he questions the party line...