Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intrigues at the presidential palace had little effect on life in the besieged capital. In front of the huge, unfinished Cambodiana Hotel, which now serves as a camp for 5,000 homeless refugees, emaciated children chanted, "O.K., bye-bye," perhaps the only English words they knew, as enemy bombs fell on the opposite bank of the Mekong River. Inside, a line of hollow-eyed mothers clutching half-dead infants waited patiently to enter the World Vision clinic. One baby's head hung limply to the side, eyes closed and mouth agape, its body swaddled in a green-and-white...
...opened last week at Chicago's Arlington Park Theater in a five-week revival of the classic farce Arsenic and Old Lace. "It's going to make theatrical history," announced Eva. The original script has been changed. The two old Brooklyn ladies who mercy-kill homeless tramps have been given a recent European ancestry to explain why Eva and Zsa Zsa romp round like two cocottes from the court of mad King Ludwig of Bavaria. Said Producer David Lonn, wiping a tear from his eye: "They still don't realize how funny they are together...
...cutoff was enacted last fall by an enraged Congress, following an invasion of the island by Turkish forces using American arms. Its purpose was to pressure Ankara into withdrawing its troops from Cyprus and allowing the resettlement of the 200,000 refugees (mostly Greek Cypriots) who were left homeless...
...thus put an end to anxiety. Another concept is "repetition compulsion." "This applies to people who have a need to master the trauma of the past," explains Dr. Robert Reich, director of psychiatry for New York City's department of social services, who works with the thousands of homeless men who crowd the Bowery year after year. "These people constantly rework their past life; many of them lived through the Depression and never really recovered. They are always watching and waiting for the next." A few Bowery bums actually have money, but "are unable to stand the thought...
...Homeless refugees, the Maharanee of Baroda and her son Princey arrived in Monte Carlo from India 16 years ago. Prince Rainier kindly made them citizens of tax-free Monaco, and in next to no time they were busy teaching the natives how to play marbles with emeralds the size of tiger's eyes and drink Dom Pérignon from Waterford crystal mugs. But this was poverty to a family that at one time had a fortune of more than $300 million, and stifling to a woman who once flew the Atlantic to telephone India from London because...