Word: hillings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Billy Hill Parkstone, England...
...more because they do not qualify for resettlement; usually, that means they do not have a "prior link" with a resettlement country, such as having relatives there. The despair among the non-qualifiers can run deep. At one Thai camp two weeks ago, seven members of a Laotian hill tribe attempted suicide by jumping into a river because they had no resettlement prospects and feared they would be sent back home; four drowned...
Ramseur said he saw the settlement not just as a victory for tenants in these buildings, but as "a victory for all Harvard tenants, and the tenants on Mission Hill and Cambridge Port who are resisting Harvard expansion. This victory shows that organized tenants can win against Harvard...
...David A. Stockman, 32, has in three years earned a reputation on Capitol Hill for effectively delivering his moderate to conservative views. One device: sending detailed letters to colleagues, including one that helped defeat Carter's standby gas rationing plan ("It doesn't do what you think, but it does a lot you never imagined"). The bachelor Republican, who was graduated from Michigan State University and attended Harvard Divinity School, is known in his southern Michigan district for opposing excessive regulation of the auto industry. Last year he helped defeat Carter's complex hospital cost-containment bill because he felt...
...encampment of Tel al Malach-the "Hill of Salt"-is a huddled cluster of tents and tin shacks moored uncertainly on the monotonous wastes of the northeastern Negev, the barren desert that adjoins the Sinai inside integral Israeli territory. The 10,000 Bedouin tribesmen of the region, who are Israeli Arab citizens, have extracted a primitive livelihood there for hundreds of years, tending small flocks of sheep and raising meager harvests of wheat. Though Bedouins are traditionally nomadic, these have never strayed far from the four tribal cemeteries where their ancestors are buried...