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...volcano last week showed contempt for those trying to conquer its fireworks: it released a poisonous cloud that swept workers from its slopes, showered gray ash on the nearby town of Giarre and sent a new river of lava toward the Rifugio di Sapienza, a tourist shelter it had damaged earlier in the spring. Engineer Abersten, weary but unbowed, warned that another precision blast would be required to make the diversion an unqualified success. Said he: "I don't want to be defeated by Etna...
...group official as saying, "In Viet Nam we are not confronted with the torture and political executions that currently scar Central America.'' Actually, many Vietnamese perished in the "reeducation" camps, where they were forced to labor twelve hours a day in malaria-infested jungles without adequate food, shelter or medication. The Vietnamese Communists have transformed Viet Nam into a huge prison camp with no human rights...
...emergency shelter for the city's homeless may be operating by late May, as part of Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's long-term plans for handling the state's growing displaced population...
David Whittey, executive director of Shelter, Inc., a non-profit group running one of Cambridge's three shelters, confirmed yesterday that the Dukakis administration has committed partial annual funding to a new shelter. But he added that other problems, such as finding a location, would have to be resolved before establishing the shelter...
While pointing to recently increased temporary shelter and quicker emergency assistance as short-term accomplishments, Dukakis emphasized the need for long-term policy responses as well. "We have laid a significant foundation on which continuing initiatives can be built and refined," he said...