Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just incredible . . . McGovern, for instance, talks about homeless orphans in Vietnam, while the Pentagon bigwigs talk in terms of body counts and the like," he said...
Faced with a desperate shortage of low-cost housing, New York City in 1965 began locating homeless families on welfare "temporarily" in hotels. What started as an emergency measure has burgeoned into a monstrous problem, a squalid way of life. Since January, 1969, the number of welfare families housed in hotels throughout the city -many for periods of one year or longer -has risen from 262 to close to 1,120, and their numbers are increasing at a rate of 10% a month. TIME Correspondents William Friedman and Robert Anson visited a number of such hotels in the city...
Doesn't Judge Camarata realize that it is more emotionally traumatic for a child to be taken from its parents and possibly grow up homeless than it is for the child not to attend church? It is no wonder the Burkes do not believe...
...other way to defeat a liberation movement which commanded a majority following, U. S. leaders opted for mechanical elimination of rural support. The strategy has worked almost completely in Vietnam; and with one-third of Laos now living in caves and one-tenth of all Cambodia rendered homeless by U. S. bombing, there is reason to believe that the strategy will also work in those countries if given enough time...
...which does not include the saturation bombing of the Ho Chi Minh trail in Southern Laos. The result, as U. S. Ambassador to Laos G. McMurtire Godley testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is that almost one third of Laos' population of three million has been made into homeless refugees...