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...site of the shantytown to be constructed here by the marchers has not yet been announced, and the government may not be informed of SCLC's decision on this until the arrival of the first group of marchers on Sunday. Details of the expected civil disobedience campaign in the federal area have also not yet been revealed...
...Loan who cracked down on the Buddhists during last spring's riots in Hué and Danang. He has taken over control of Saigon's sloppy port security, sharply reducing theft and graft, is currently using his National Police to clean up An Khanh, a shantytown across the Saigon River that seethes with smugglers and bandits. Southerners accuse him of building a police state. "Hell, no," he says. "We don't even have enough gasoline to keep our Jeeps on 24-hour patrol...
Easterners are Christian, democratic, enterprising-and far wealthier than the Northerners. The Yoruba Westerners, whose capital of Ibadan (pop. 750,000) is Nigeria's largest city and the world's largest shantytown, are farmers and small traders whose passions are High-Life music and politics, often accompanied by endless draughts of pungent palm wine...
Plague & Piastres. When the first youths appeared and started shoveling away piles of garbage that had accumulated in the shantytown, the neighbors greeted their efforts with cynical amusement, figuring that the clean-cut do-gooders would soon tire of such dirty toil. One morning after two months, however, 90 locals turned out to help; from then on District 8 became a joint enterprise. Residents and student volunteers dredged 30 acres of dumps and swamps, dug drainage ditches and water reservoirs, carved out three miles of street. New homes have been started for 600 families. One hospital and 17 health centers...