Word: homelessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fleeing from famine and war, an estimated 560,000 homeless Cambodians are massed along their country's ill-defined western border with Thailand. Last week the Thai military command announced that the country would move most of the refugees from insecure frontier areas and establish huge camps to hold them. Thai officials contend that many of the Cambodians are actually inside their country already; even so, the 560,000 may be only part of an exodus even larger than the tragic flight of more than 700,000 refugees from Viet...
...black I find it ludicrous that black American leaders are now preoccupied with the P.L.O. cause. I wonder how many are also concerned with the cause of blacks in Dominica, 60,000 of whom are homeless because of Hurricane David...
...condemn either side, but to observe that both have made mistakes and that both have sincere desire for peace. No long term interests are served by ignoring the PLO and wishing the problem away. A meaningful, durable peace can be achieved only by including the displaced, homeless people who live there. The Palestinians are central to a peace treaty and the PLO seems to have the support of most Palestinians, a group that has no other voice...
ROME--An earthquake here measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale killed five persons and left more than 1000 homeless yesterday...
...Casas, 75 miles west of Santo Domingo, some 400 people who had huddled for safety in a church and a school were killed when floodwaters from the Yaque River swept them away. At least 600 more were killed in the Dominican Republic, while an estimated 150,000 were left homeless, including 90,000 in Santo Domingo alone. President Antonio Guzmán understandably described the storm as "this terrible tragedy of David," and reckoned his country had suffered almost $1 billion in agricultural, industrial and other property losses. To make matters worse, tropical storm Frederic suddenly appeared in the wake...