Word: hilweh
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...former Viet Nam War correspondent, rose from a sickbed with a 102° fever to direct the bureau's work and write comprehensive files on the Palestinian liberation movement and the political repercussions of the week's violence. Photographer Eddie Adams headed to 'Ain el Hilweh, a refugee camp that had been hit by Israeli planes, where he was guarded closely by armed commandos. Correspondent William Stewart, a journalistic veteran of Viet Nam and India-Pakistan combat, also visited 'Ain el Hilweh with TIME'S Abu Said. They poked through the ruins and talked with...
...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...