Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...food service subcommittee of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) Monday approved a fast that the Hunger Action Committee will sponsor on April 26 to raise funds for three shelter programs aiding the homeless in Cambridge and Boston...
Shelter, Inc., Pine Street Inn, and Rosie's Place each serve a different segment of the homeless population in the Boston metropolitan area. All are supported by contributions. Shelter and Pine Street also receive money from the State Department of Welfare...
...volunteered at Shelter for more than a year, said yesterday. "It seems like these people are rushed from one place to another and Shelter gives them people to listen to them. It was really hard at first when I realized how insulated I'd been from the homeless in cities," he added...
...monsoons every year. Rolling off the tropical seas from the southwest, the sodden summer winds unleash torrential rains that give life to crops across India-and take human lives as swollen rivers flood towns (this year's toll: at least 900 dead, 3 million homeless). Reversing themselves after an autumn lull, the winds return, this time from the northeast, carrying cool, relatively dry air. Building to gale force in northeast Asia, they sometimes bring frost to tropical Hong Kong. In Southeast Asia, after sweeping the sea, they bring vital rain...
...overcrowded, unsanitary vessel to be quartered ashore. Local officials want the Vietnamese to be transferred directly from the ship to an airport for flights to their new homes. The U.S., which has already admitted 150,000 refugees from Indochina, seeks a different solution. To help the Hai Hong homeless, the U.S. Attorney General approved an increase of 2,500 above the annual refugee quota of 25,000 for the year ending next May 1. But the Carter Administration wants to take the refugees at the head of the queue already in Malaysia, and have the Hai Hong escapees take their...