Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general devastation in Wuchow. The accompanying text shrilly blamed the destruction on a radical faction. The radicals' newspaper, printed at about the same time, blames the damage on the conservatives and claims that the fierce fighting reduced more than 2,000 buildings to rubble, left 40,000 residents homeless and killed hundreds...
...destruction and new refugees who stagger from the shattered homes, clutching meager possessions, dragging or carrying tearful, terrified children. Hospitals are packed-some 4,800 civilians have been treated for wounds since early May and refugee centers overflow under the tide of the more than 160,000 people made homeless in the past six weeks. Schools have been closed for weeks. Many youngsters wear metal identification tags or bracelets, in case they are lost or found dead or wounded. Barbed wire coils around some homes, sandbag prices and sales have shot up, and the My Duyen Construction Co. offers...
...make suicidal attacks. Militarily, Tet II was disastrously expensive for the enemy. But it did inflict severe new wounds on Saigon and its people. Moreover, Hanoi got its headlines, its pictures of whole blocks on fire and of the suffering of the capital's 60,000 newly homeless refugees. As a postscript, and to celebrate Ho Chi Minh's 78th birthday, the Communists last week launched a fresh shelling of Saigon; one rocket narrowly missed the palace, where President Nguyen Van Thieu and his family were sleeping...
...Urban Renewal Program based on many good intentions and little real knowledge, was hailed as a great liberal measure, Banfield said. According to many Negro leaders it has actually hurt the poor. Slums are razed, only to give way to middle-income housing which leaves the former occupants homeless...
...government has launched an ambitious program to put the Delta's new homeless back under their own roofs, but the actual rebuilding of houses is only just beginning. The schools will reopen within a month. CORDS officials are trying to organize commercial convoys-fleets of trucks guarded by military vehicles-over the enemy-interdicted roads. Some 70% of the R.D. workers have returned to their posts but, in some provinces, such as Kien Giang, Phong Dinh and Kien Phong, there is no chance of a return. The Viet Cong pressure is just too heavy...