Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost from the beginning, there was a tragic inevitability about the fratricide, focused in images of crisis and despair: the foreign community melting away, embassies being evacuated, the homeless seeking shelter, wall posters proliferating with the earnest faces of militiamen killed in the fighting...
...Palmdale area for a new jetport. But a few officials are openly worried. Last week the California Seismic Safety Commission, urging Los Angeles to prepare for the worst, warned that a major earthquake of 8 on the Richter scale could kill 12,000 people, injure or leave homeless thousands more and cost $12 billion in property damage. Said Roger Pulley, a state earthquake preparedness official: "There is no sense of alarm, but we are treating the Palmdale bulge as a threat...
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed...
...knees and was fighting to recover from one of the most destructive earthquakes ever to hit the Western Hemisphere (TIME, Feb. 16). Last week the terrible toll continued to climb as new victims were found-nearly 19,000 dead, 66,000 wounded, at least 1,000,000 homeless.* Amid the miasma of death, new clouds of dust rose from 800 smaller aftershocks that continued to frighten the country; nonetheless, Guatemalans cleared away rubble to make way for rebuilding. Optimists even talked about a revival of the lucrative tourist trade, which provides Guatemala with $85 million a year in foreign exchange...
...Considering Guatemala's modest (6 million) population, comparable quake damage in the U.S. would have killed 672,000 people and left 37 million homeless...