Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gurion told the Knesset, his country's Parliament, that U.S. Zionists think of Israel as a place not for themselves but for "homeless" Jews. "They are not truly Zionists if they do not settle in Israel." he cried. In fact, Ben-Gurion went on, "I know of only one Zionist in America whom I would call a Zionist. He does not think of himself as an American; he thinks of himself only...
After all the parlor-nice distinctions have been drawn and the charges of antisemitism have been hurled, the unavoidable irony is this: that these 800,000 wretched Arab refugees were made homeless by a people who pointed at their own great persecution not so much in accusation of their persecutors but in moral justification for their own transgressions. I wept for the long-suffering Jews of Europe until I saw the Arab refugees at Gaza; then I wept for humanity...
...promoting neither Western interests nor Congolese peace. But the U.S. has loyally done what it could, and obliged whenever its help was asked. Last week President Kennedy announced that the U.S. was rushing rice, corn, dried milk and other foodstuffs from U.S. surplus stocks to help feed 300,000 homeless Baluba tribesmen starving in remote Kasai province. Orders crackled from U.S. Air Force European headquarters in Wiesbaden, and an urgent airlift headed south. U.S. planes stopped at Nairobi, Salisbury and the Cameroun city of Garoua, picked up food pledged by other governments. On the way back, the planes would help...
...Congo's town politicians bickered and battled, few of them had a thought for a greater tragedy unfolding in the remote bush of South Kasai. There 300,000 pathetic Baluba tribesmen, hurled out of their homelands last year by the tribal fighting, huddled homeless and hungry in a harsh, inhospitable region where few crops grew. Now, unless massive help arrived soon, many of them faced death from sheer starvation. Nearly all the children suffered from the dread protein-deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, which shriveled limbs, swelled bellies and fouled the blood. Already, several thousand adults and children have died...
Under its new anti-Communist government, Laos got off to a shaky and cautious start last week. In the capital city of Vientiane, ravaged by three days of bitter fighting, homeless refugees poked about the smoldering bamboo ruins. Most utilities and water mains were knocked out of commission. The city's main hospital, jammed with 500 wounded, and desperately short of water, tapped the swimming pool at the nearby U.S. embassy residence. When U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Brown held a public distribution of rice flown in by the U.S., he was rushed by a hungry mob and had to flee...