Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Social Services, Mary White and her eight children have been living in two rooms on the fourth floor of the Hamilton for two years. The apartment is a horror. In the bathroom, peeling paint drips leaking water from the toilet in the bathroom above; a film of water containing feces gleams dully on the floor. Roaches and other bugs swarm over the walls, the bathtub and sink. A rotting pipe in the corner has a dual purpose: it doubles as the children's "tree;" because Mary is afraid to allow the children outside, the youngsters' occasionally exercise...
...Degeneration and disease among hotel children is beyond imagination. There is, today, a near crisis involving upper respiratory infections, and chicken pox is spreading rapidly. There has been a large number of middle-ear infections, as well as gastrointestinal infections. Lead poisoning, caused by hotel children eating the peeling paint from the walls, is also a severe hazard...
...closer look reveals shabbiness. Isla Vista resembles a hip version of the towns near military bases thrown up to house and often gouge transient servicemen's families. Built like cheap motels, some apartments come with peeling paint and broken plumbing...
Saigon officials and U.S. advisers insisted that they had no part in the flag painting. But the phenomenon began after President Nguyen Van Thieu announced a stepped-up pacification program following President Nixon's suggestion in October of a standstill ceasefire. In such a cease-fire (known locally as a "leopardskin" arrangement), blotches of Viet Cong-held territory would be interspersed with strongpoints controlled by the Saigon government. Word soon reached Saigon's functionaries that any village that was to be regarded as government-controlled should be marked with flags-which reminded some observers of the origin...
...intelligence officials insist that the Communist guerrillas are so disturbed by Thieu's attempt to paint all of South Viet Nam into his corner that they have launched a campaign to deface the ubiquitous flags. Even so, the whole effort struck some as absurd. The Vietnamese satirical magazine Mosquito, for example, has recommended that to help the government distinguish between Communists and loyalists, "each citizen should have his head shaved like a monk and then have the national flag painted...