Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these refugees was Fawaz Turki, the author of The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile. He and his family left Haifa for Beirut where he grew up in a refugee camp and slums. His book is an intense and vivid account of what it means to be homeless, to live on international hand-outs of a few cents a day, to be "an outsider, an alien, a refugee, a burden." It fills the cold term "Arab refugee" with painful reality. Fawaz Turki views his as an existential problem. It is a yearning for a homeland, for being part...
...ending only last February. The aerial onslaught, which lasted longer than the bombing by any country of another in world history, carpeted sections of Laos with hundreds of thousands of bomb craters and turned between one-third and one-half of Laos's three million people into homeless refugees...
Vietnam is not yet free from war, and Nixon's criminal bombing continues to murder, maim, starve and make homeless the people of Cambodia. Yet even to a skeptic, the overall situation in Indochina seems more peaceful today than it has been since America's original escalation in the early sixties. The relentless aerial bombardment of Laos and of both sections of Vietnam for the past decade, highlighted in a perverse way by the savage terror bombing last Christmas, has ended--perhaps for good...
...attempted to evade responsibility for the Cambodian bombing -- on the contrary, he has obliquely welcomed it. Although his Administration has provided only the barest details of its onslaught, it has never denied that the bombing has not stopped. The Administration can quibble over the number of screaming children and homeless villagers, but it has not hidden the central truth: the war continues...
Vietnam is not yet free from war, and Nixon's criminal bombing continues to murder, maim, starve and make homeless the people of Cambodia. Yet even to a skeptic, the overall situation in Indochina seems today more peaceful than it has been since America's original escalation in the early sixties. The relentless aerial bombardment of Laos and of both sections of Vietnam for the past decade, highlighted in a perverse way by the savage terror bombing last Christmas, have ended--perhaps for good...