Word: shantytown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Similar Affliction. The first deaths in the latest outbreak occurred last month in the remote southern Sudanese shantytown of Maridi. Doctors at a clinic there radioed that 46 people had died, including a physician and several nurses. Since then, reports from neighboring Zaire indicate that at least 200 people have died of a similar affliction. In both regions the victims first suffered severe headaches and high fever. Within days they were coughing, vomiting and hemorrhaging, and a third to a half of all those hospitalized later died...
...Harder They Come Now that reggae has made the cover of the Rolling Stone and is no longer the exclusive province of the chic, maybe this Jimmy Cliff "country hick to shantytown to bigtime to rubout" regional novel of a flick will make it beyond the cult who love it already. You can see it if you really want...
...came from, looking for work and help from relatives. Every day the local papers are filled with lists of people seeking long-lost relations. About 250 have been put into Lisbon's Ritz Hotel for lack of space elsewhere. The rest of the refugees are living in wretched shantytown camps, in hospitals or schools. The government pays for this through a new agency, established to help the newcomers, with a budget of $160 million. Hundreds are squatters at Lisbon International Airport...
...Fetid Shantytown. In Luanda, the capital, some 200,000 returnados have signed up for emergency airlifts to Portugal. The Luanda airport has become a fetid shantytown. American, French, German, British and Portuguese airlines are flying in to remove the refugees, but for many the wait will be weeks...
...Shantytown refugee camps have risen like festering sores throughout the region, providing the barest relief to half a million people. Their individual monthly ration is only 26 Ibs. of flour and 4.4 Ibs. of dried milk, the nutritional equivalent of about one-third of the average American's diet. In their weakened condition, disease has spread quickly. Typhus, dysentery, measles and gastroenteritis are rampant. At the teeming Lazaret camp near Niamey, Niger's capital, cholera threatens the 15,000 refugees. In Chad, some emaciated nomads begged a U.N. official not to send them medicines, pleading that death from...