Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their talks did much to ease the tension that has lasted since 1947, when more than 500,000 Hindus and Moslems were killed, and 12 million made homeless during the carnage that followed the partition of India. There was hope that the two nations, by forgoing their old suspicions, might reduce their crippling defense budgets (50% for India, 65% for Pakistan). Said Mohammed Ali: "The resources that both countries are now devoting to arming themselves against each other . . . could be devoted to the great task of raising deplorably low living standards...
...Foundation has sprinkled its largesse into many a remote cranny.* Last week it was training its sights on a tract of blooming farmland near Jericho, where the crops are wheat, oranges, and above all, hope. It is a Boystown -the first in the Middle East-for Arab children left homeless and orphaned by the Arab-Israeli...
...education while most Arabs could think only of their quarrels with the Zionists. He irrigated thousands of acres of desert land that others had thought hopeless, gave jobs to hundreds of refugees. Then, 15 months ago, he turned to the problem of the bedraggled bands of boys left homeless by the Palestine war. In Jerusalem he saw hundreds of them, skulking about the bazaars, living in back alleys, begging or stealing a few piasters wherever they could. The orphanages and refugee camps around were already overflowing. Finally, Musa al-Alami hit on the idea of setting up a Boystown...
...four days and four nights, twelve inches of rain had fallen, with a recorded peak of 21 inches at Hita, Oita Prefecture. The toll: 457 known dead, 1,114 missing, 901 injured; some 800,000 homeless; 4,000 homes destroyed or washed away, 300,000 homes damaged or flooded, 350,000 acres of rich paddy and upland fields ruined and gone. The cost: $50 million to $100 million. For Kyushu, where it rains twice as much as it does elsewhere in Japan, it was the worst flood catastrophe in 61 years...
...save Korea has also killed 400,000 Korean civilians, left 500,000 homes wrecked beyond repair. One fourth of all Koreans are homeless, and 100,000 are orphans; all are underfed. In North Korea, 40% of all habitations are destroyed, and of military targets-factories, power plants, etc.-U.N. airmen agree that there is not much left to destroy. Its army is smashed, its civilian population has diminished from...