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Word: pers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hong Kong government estimates it spends between six and seven Hong Kong dollars (about $1.25 U.S.) per refugee per day. The United Nations is trying hard but little is being accomplished--"the resettlement reaction from foreign countries has been reducing in enthusiasm," our escort explains...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waiting for a Home | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...facts are simple enough. Three hundred more refugees arrived today. Sixty per cent of the camp's population is ethnic Chinese, 40 per cent Vietnamese. There are five schools teaching the children their ABC's. Most of the camp is middle-class. There are some family squabbles but no more trouble than one would expect. Reid's biggest problem, and he shakes his head vehemently, is keeping the camp clean. "You cannot install hygiene into them," he says. Outside, there are piles of garbage attracting insects and disease. A woman is kneeling in the middle of the pile and trying...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waiting for a Home | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...corruption-tinged, autocratic regime of President Ferdinand Marcos, who seven years ago imposed martial law on the 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago. Today he rules as both President and Prime Minister over a dangerously deteriorating society. Despite statistically impressive increases in his country's per capita income, poverty and hunger affect most of the Philippines' 46.5 million people, a population that faces increasing suffering as the country totters toward economic crisis. Violent crime is soaring so rapidly that even some government officials have recommended the easy licensing of firearms for self-protection. Abuse of power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Powder Keg of the Pacific | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...immediate perks in the form of government-provided cars, high salaries and elegant new homes like Mphephu's $750,000 mansion on Thohoyandou's Nob Hill. But it remains to be seen whether "independence" will prove a boon to the people of an impoverished backwater area whose per capita income is only $25 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Birth of a New Non-State | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

...knows how many Argentines mysteriously disappeared during the reigns of Isabel Perón and the military regime that toppled her three years ago. Human rights organizations, including the London-based Amnesty International, charge that since 1975 15,000 desaparecidos have been abducted, tortured and possibly killed by agents of the government - without authorization by any court of law. Argentine activists guess that the total might be as high as 12,000, while the government insists that fewer than 5,000 people were arrested under executive powers invoked during a state of siege that was imposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: In Search of the Disappeared | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

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