Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other profiteering can be traced to U.S. bureaucratic indifference. Scrap lumber in Danang was formerly donated for use by homeless refugees. Today it is sold by contract to a wealthy Vietnamese trash collector, who then sells it to refugees at inflated prices. In one refugee village, where the average daily wage is less than 200 piasters (73?), a 4-ft. by 8-ft. sheet of scrap plywood costs 800 to 1,000 piasters; a cardboard carton brings 200 piasters. Under the system that has evolved, the refugees pay rich Vietnamese for the privilege of living under cast-off American crates...
...both Viet Cong terrorism and U.S. firepower. The victim of that disaster is the civilian population, all too easily overlooked amid the concern for American and South Vietnamese military casualties. In the process, millions of civilians, the innocent and largely silent victims, have been killed, injured or rendered homeless. In South Viet Nam alone, there have been an estimated 1,050,000 civilian casualties, including 325,000 dead, since 1965. Reliable figures on civilian losses are not available for Cambodia, but it is estimated that 10,000 Laotian civilians have been killed and 20,000 injured since the heavy...
Such infighting has caused most of the original invasion leaders to leave Alcatraz. They have been replaced by homeless, apolitical young Indians more concerned with finding a pad where they can "get their heads together" than in sustaining any kind of significant political statement. Says Dennis Hastings, a former member of the island's seven-man council: "The important thing about Alcatraz is spiritual rebirth. We're here to let our minds heal. Here we can escape from the limbo culture that we have lived in for too long. We just want to be left alone...
Early last week a spate of more than 50 tornadoes churned furiously through portions of Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee, uprooting and smashing everything in their path, leaving behind more than 100 dead, thousands homeless and property damage in the tens of millions of dollars. One of the hardest hit was the Mississippi Delta town of Inverness (pop. 1,119), which suffered 90% destruction in its business area, the loss of nearly three-fourths of its residential dwellings and 18 deaths. TIME Correspondent Rich Rein toured stricken Inverness. Here is his report...
Blocking Adoptions. All told, there are 200,000 homeless children living in some 6,000 institutions throughout Italy. "Many of these children are thirty times worse off than in juvenile prisons," said Luciano Infelisi, 30, a reform-minded Rome district attorney who organized the surprise raids in the capital. "They would live better if they had committed crimes." The Dickensian situation is largely the result of inadequate government control. Though 90% of the institutions are related to church organizations, ultimate responsibility for their supervision rests with the notoriously inefficient National Organization for the Protection of Mothers and Children...