Word: rebuilding
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...homeless refugees created by the onslaught. Viet Nam Christian Service, supported by Lutheran World Relief, the Mennonites and Church World Service, has assumed responsibility for refugee relief in a number of areas, including Gia Dinh, a suburb of Saigon; often braving Communist fire, service volunteers have scrounged lumber to rebuild homes, hauled food, water and sleeping mats to refugee camps. Catholic Relief Services is now attempting to house and feed 87,000 new refugees in 27 centers...
...whatever formula the inexorable attack on long-neglected urban problems comes, the cost will be staggering. Alcoa Chairman Frederick J. Close last week ventured a price tag of $100 billion to clean U.S. skies and rivers, rebuild cities, unsnarl traffic, educate the young and re-educate the old. Vice Chairman Simon Ramo of TRW Inc. puts the cost ten times higher, or $1 trillion...
...first place-and then for having to devastate wide areas to get rid of the enemy. Who lost the more remains to be seen. "It depends," says the I Corps U.S. commander, Marine Lieut. General Robert E. Cushman Jr., "on how fast the government provides assistance to rebuild homes, offices, roads and bridges...
...remember that the first one was to cut the cloth and tighten the economic belt, reorganize city departments and bring about greater efficiency; the second--to rebuild, restore, and revitalize investor confidence. Admittedly these have been done. There is more building going on in the City of Boston at this moment than in any city in America--that's by dollar volume in relation to per square yard area and in relation to population served. The third aspect of the program was to endeavor to have the Commonwealth assume its fair share of the responsibility for the City...
...billion authorization for the model cities program, which got only $312 million last year, "to rebuild the centers of American cities...