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...migrations are a perplexing problem for both governments. At India's biggest refugee camp, in Madhya Pradesh state, 500 miles west of the East Pakistan border, 50,000 Pakistani Hindus are crammed into makeshift tents and huts. There are only six doctors for the entire camp, and in the suffocating heat (110° in the shade) children die like flies. East Pakistan has erected dozens of its own refugee camps. To hasten integration of the newcomers, some local officials have ordered villages to absorb a fixed quota of the refugees, who come in relentless hundreds each...
...system has bred an underground elite: the hard-to-find specialists who can make brand-new shoes wearable, alter off-the-peg suits and dresses so that they have a semblance of style, or give a broken appliance the "provisional" treatment, as the Russians call their intuitive knack for makeshift repairs...
Church, although no Russians attended his dedication ceremony. He thinks that Christ Church, with its makeshift, homespun quality, is appropriate to the role of Christianity in the Soviet Union and is a better symbol of what the church means than a cathedral. "A church isn't a building," he says. "It's a fellowship of people who come together to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The idea of the church in the home is one way of saying that every home has within it the potential of becoming a church. It has been said that religion...
...duty personnel. Hundreds of rescue workers descended on the Coliseum. Auto wreckers and a construction crane rumbled onto the ice rink, began lifting blocks of concrete to free the dead and the injured. Doctors and nurses, their clothing streaked with dried blood, worked feverishly. Others organized a makeshift morgue on the rink. Beneath gay red and green Chinese lanterns left over from the finale, men laid bodies on boards, covered them with blankets, tarpaulins and overcoats, and marked each with a curt description such as, "Young girl, sandy hair, blue eyes. Unidentified...
Armed with 20,000 books, the volunteers hold classes for four hours a day at seven makeshift centers around the county. In Farmville, classes fill the pews of Beulah A.M.E. Church and the First Baptist Church. In Levi, the teachers swept the broken glass out of an abandoned schoolhouse and set up shop. In Hampden-Sydney, they teach in a fly-swept Sunday school with chickens scratching in the dust outside. And the kids, some of them walking three miles, have flocked to school in such numbers that teachers had to cut off enrollment...