Word: exoduses
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...Tshombe knew it. "It will be said," he remarked, "that I am punishing innocent people. Nonetheless, I have no choice." Half of Tshombe's Cabinet and his secret-police chief, plus the U.S. and French ambassadors urged him to give up the plan, to no avail. The exodus began. Thousands of weeping Brazzavillians-many of whom had lived in Leopoldville all their lives-were shoved in groups of 150 aboard chartered ferries and shuttled across the two miles of muddy brown river to Brazzaville. With them were all the possessions they could carry or drag...
Then the Negroes began pressing to get in. After the bloody Civil War draft riots in New York, when rampaging whites lynched 18 Negroes, drowned five others, and burned down a Negro orphan asylum, the black colony began an exodus to remote uptown areas, first the upper West Side and after the turn of the century to Harlem. White real estate dealers formed "protective" associations to prevent blockbusting, hung "White Only" signs in windows...
While the tenements steadily decay, Harlem's housing situation is looking up in other ways. The city, hoping to reverse the middle-class exodus by offering more attractive quarters, has adopted a three-pronged program of municipal loans for rehabilitating existing houses, public projects and private developments. Under the rehabilitation program, it has handed out $1,000,000 in 20-year, 4% loans since the beginning of the year to help landlords to save whatever is worth saving, chiefly the solidly built brownstones scattered throughout the area. Another $5,000,000 will flow in the near future. "With these...
Behind the exodus is the fact that Strongman Premier Ne Win, driving pell-mell along his "Burmese road to Socialism," has nationalized all small businesses, banks and warehouses, denied trading licenses to aliens, and prohibited non-Burmese from taking government jobs. Ne Win's edicts struck particularly hard at the Indians, who have become the nation's sharpest shopkeepers, but have been reluctant to take out Burmese citizenship...
...Burma's treatment of its Indian minority an isolated case. In Ceylon, where nearly 700,000 Indian plantation workers and tradesmen live as "stateless persons," the regime has launched a "Ceylonization of trade" campaign. And what that might very well mean is yet another mass exodus of Indians...