Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of them escape across the 450-mile border between Kampuchea (Cambodia) and Thailand, which is dotted with spikes holding the sun-bleached skulls of would-be refugees who were shot down by Khmer Rouge frontier guards. With considerably greater ease, others manage to evade the purgatory of Pathet Lao...
Anti-Chinese feeling in Viet Nam has roots in China's ten-century-long domination (111 B.C.-939 A.D.) of the country. Nonetheless, there is much evidence that the mass exodus was occasioned by Hanoi's communization program rather than by specifically anti-Chinese discrimination. Already deprived of their shops...
Only one area of town seems almost untouched. The section where the white workers in the copper companies live resembles a pleasant Belgian suburb, with well-kept gardens and roads, European cafes and restaurants. African mine workers, of course, still live in overcrowded one-and two-room shacks. Although the...
Tricia on the last day. I took three consciously deep breaths to clear the light-leadedness that had struck me. One ... two ... three. I said aloud "Take three deep breaths." Mama, Julie did so. The Hall seemed overcrowded with humanity.
When Gary Miner, a marine-supply company manager, entered Las Vegas' Sunrise Hospital for heart treatment, he hardly expected that he would come away with an all-expenses-paid vacation to Hawaii. Overcrowded on weekdays and underused on weekends, Sunrise is solving its problem in true Las Vegas fashion...