Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...months it will be a year since the Vietnam "cease fire," but in fact the war is continuing. It progresses at a level lower than in previous years, but no less fatal for those who are killed, no less uprooting for those who are made homeless. At the same time that the war continues, apparently, the political techniques which helped turn many Americans against the Saigon government of Nguyen Van Thieu continue as well...
...blood of dead and homeless Indochinese is on Kissinger's hands. He has no place anywhere in the United States government...
...Roosevelt Towers seemed to be an answer for a city crowded with homeless veterans. The main speaker at the Towers dedication ceremony was Congressman John F. Kennedy, a backer of the 1949 Federal Public Housing Act, which committed Federal money to public housing...
...however, was located 150 miles southeast of the capital. There the shock proved devastating. As rescue work got under way, government officials feared that the death toll, initially estimated at 400, could reach 1,000. The quake also injured more than 4,000 people and left nearly 25,000 homeless...
...strong case for the moral commitment which liberal Harvard gentlemen bring to the military would be difficult to make. The wounded and homeless of Indochina could best testify to the "humanizing" influence of Harvard men such as Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, James Schlesinger '50, Henry Kissinger '50, Elliot Richardson '41, and Louis F. Fieser, Emery Professor of Organic Chemistry, Emeritus, and the inventor of napalm...