Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Expelling Beggars. Nonetheless, the shack villages of the real Indonesia, where the majority of the country's 125 million people live, start only a few short blocks away. Roughly 35% of the country's work force of 39 million is unemployed, and every year the number increases by 1,400,000. In the capital, the government has invoked measures to deal with poverty. Four years ago officials declared that Jakarta was "a closed city to all future jobless settlers." Ever since, trainloads of beggars and unemployed city dwellers have been expelled and sent back to the provinces from...
EDDIE KENDRICKS--Though Sun. Jan. 27 at Sugar Shack...
...produced in court. Even in their unimproved state, the cameras have aroused the fears of the ever vigilant American Civil Liberties Union, which is hypersensitive to any possible infringement of civil liberties caused by police innovation. "Once you make a jump from a patrolman to technical devices," says Barbara Shack, assistant director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, "you're very much...
...Palestinian refugee, living in a tent or shack under conditions rivaling those of Nazi camps and dependent upon the charity of other nations, the only home is Palestine, where he and his family have lived for centuries, a country Israel insists no longer exists...
...hope the icebox keeps working. A frost-free refrigerator would look out of place in Steve's small shack...