Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the tremors subsided, more than 300 towns throughout the country had been destroyed. The Guatemalan government announced that more than 8,000 people were dead and 40,000 injured; unofficial estimates ran as high as 20,000 dead, 60,000 injured and hundreds of thousands homeless...
Eating Rats. Many of the city's homeless spent chilly nights in the streets camping under tents that had been made from salvaged sheets and tablecloths. Even those whose homes were left standing slept on the pavement or in parks rather than remain in buildings that continued to tremble from the afterquakes. Food and water were scarce. By week's end what stores remained open had either stopped extending credit or raised prices beyond the reach of most of the city's poor...
Government figures released Tuesday listed 17,000 people dead, 54,000 injured and 1,04,000 homeless...
...National Liberal Party and neighborhood militiamen, attacked two Moslem slum areas, Karantina and Maslakh. Supported by mortars, recoilless rifles and rockets, the rightists pushed out the defenders last week and then leveled the remaining shanties with bulldozers. Scores of Moslems were killed and at least 6,000 were left homeless. Survivors claimed that there had been a massacre and countless atrocities. "We shall skin them for this," vowed Kamal Jumblatt, head of the leftist Progressive Socialist Party and leader of the country's Druze community...
...other living saints, giving means devoting their lives entirely to the needs of orphans. Austrian Catholic Hermann Gmeiner, 56, saw that need in the wake of World War II, when Europe was crowded with homeless refugee children. He took a leaf from his childhood-an older sister had raised the eight other children after his mother died-and built the first in a series of "S O S villages" that now care for 15,000 orphans round the world. Every village consists of a cluster of houses, each presided over by a foster mother who cares for eight...