Word: fisherfolk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chau, a little island off Hong Kong, is a hilly, barely habitable patch that measures less than half a square mile. Abandoned more than a decade ago by native fisherfolk, the islet is teeming with life these days. Its new residents are Vietnamese boat people who, having fled their homeland and braved the dangers of the high seas, expect to make it the departure point for a better life elsewhere. More than 4,500 refugees vie for space in Tai A Chau's dozen crumbling huts and 50 tents, and the number keeps rising. Last week alone more than...
...about as safe to bathe in as an unflushed toilet. By far the greatest, or at least the most visible, damage has been done near land, which means that the savaging of the seas vitally affects human and marine life. Polluted waters and littered beaches can take jobs from fisherfolk as well as food from consumers, recreation from vacationers and business from resorts. In dollars, pollution costs billions; the cost in the quality of life is incalculable...
...Asia. Arriving in frail fishing craft in the waters of Thailand, Malaysia and other countries that proved incapable of or unwilling to shelter all of them, they were known as the boat people. They seemed to be the ultimate casualties of the U.S. defeat in Viet Nam. Peasants and fisherfolk, small shopkeepers and traders, as well as former soldiers of Saigon's army, they fled the oppressive Hanoi regime in increasing numbers. Soon the exodus was joined by hundreds of thousands of ethnic Chinese, who were routed from their ancestral homes in Viet Nam in the spring...
...population of 2,800 are white-are mostly of Breton and Norman descent. In villages perched on the hillsides, older women still wear quichenottes, the starched white bonnets of Brittany. Some of the countryfolk have never traveled the dozen miles to Gustavia, the capital and only town. They are fisherfolk, sailors, carpenters and masons; the women weave delicate hats (calèches) and bags from straw...