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...every loss. Last month the losses were the highest for any month since 1967-43 soldiers and 18 civilians killed and 105 soldiers and 31 civilians wounded. In the kibbutzim along the northern and eastern borders, Israelis spend more and more time underground. "A couple of years ago, a shelter was where you ran to," said Yitzhak Carmel, a farmer on a settlement near Jordan. "Now it often seems to be the place you live in." At the Maoz Chaim kibbutz, 150 children have been sleeping underground for two years. Many of the shelters have become elaborate installations, complete with...
...nosed into the riverbank, opened its bow doors and disgorged its human cargo at Hong Ngu. The Vietnamese were greeted by a white-shirted bureaucrat who shouted instructions over a bullhorn. There were tables stacked with forms to fill out and, near by, a tent city to shelter the refugees for the two weeks or so that will be needed to screen and begin relocating them...
Saying that city inspectors had found the building unsafe for occupancy, May added, "clearly, these waifs cannot remain there." The letter from May offered to "locate other shelter for them and help them find the assistance, including medical assistance, that many seem to need...
Members of the commune said yesterday that they have been offered shelter in apartments around Cambridge, Students aiding the commune have set up an office at Adams House to receive and coordinate offers of food and shelter...
Such sacrifices come cheerfully to the Berrigans. They grew up during hard times in upstate New York, but their father, a pioneer union organizer, and their generous German mother laid out food and shelter for needy friends and strangers alike. Dan joined the Jesuits, Phil the Josephites, an order that works mainly in ghetto areas. Both priests deeply distrust private property because of the greed that it provokes in humanity. Phil, the polemicist, is gregarious and outgoing-a tall, brawny, bear-hugging Burt Lancaster of a man, given to warm laughter amid healthy belts of rye. Dan, the poet...