Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Outreage and Relief...
...silent. The themes of world, reaction ranged from outrage, to a more moderate sadness, to a kind of unenthusiastic sympathy for the President's implacable line. Only on Taiwan and in Saigon were the raids greeted with almost unmitigated satisfaction. Then, with the bombing halt, came expressions of relief and hope mixed with recrimination. A sampling of reactions...
...selfless generosity. Hoping to force out the 150,000 or so who stubbornly refused to leave Managua, and thus reduce the chances of an outbreak of disease, the government at first refused to bring food into the city. As a result, emergency food supplies flown in by various relief organizations piled up in hangars at Managua's Las Mercedes Airport while profiteers within the city sold bread at $2 a loaf and water and soft drinks at $2 a bottle (the water in Lake Managua is too polluted to drink). Children sat in the streets, putting their hands...
...Mercedes. President Nixon ordered "an all-out effort" and U.S. Air Force C-141 and C-5 transports shuttled in with medical supplies, bulldozers and other items at a tonnage rate that exceeded the first days of the Berlin airlift of 1948. At least 20 countries joined the relief effort, including Cuba, which dispatched a medical team...
...state proclaimed the caste system illegal in 1871, but prejudice did not yield to government fiat. On the average, buraku-min are less well educated than their countrymen, and their children test 16 IQ points lower than other Japanese.* About 7% of buraku families are on relief, more than twice the national average, and juvenile delinquency is 3/2 times higher among them than among other Japanese youths. According to Sueo Murakoshi, an outcast who surmounted the system to become a professor of sociology at Osaka City University and secretary-general of the Buraku Problem Research Institute: "Some high school classes...