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...which is 1,000 ft. below sea level and 30° warmer than the plateau. The valley itself is a treacherous campsite, prone to flash floods and violent sand storms; at one camp last month, a sandstorm shredded more than 600 tents to ribbons, leaving 3,000 refugees without shelter. Many of the tents, moreover, are Sears Roebuck's "Ted Williams" models, donated by the U.S. but designed for weekend summer camping...
...abundant crops and heavy donations from other Arab countries, Jordan now has enough basic foodstuffs to supply all the camps for more than a year. However, not all the refugees live in the camps. In the chaos of their first desperate days of flight, thousands found their own shelter as best they could. Hundreds of them still sleep on the sidewalks of Amman, and hundreds of others live in vacant cellars or shallow holes gouged out of the city's rocky hillsides. "We don't know where many of them are," says Reconstruction and Development Minister Hazem Nusseibeh...
Serge Lang, self-appointed investigator of university administrations, said last night that "universities simply are not providing the shelter they used...
...area, the Sabra does not accept defeat. During the war Naomi sat in the cool semi-darkness of one of Ayeleth's concrete shelters, and sang "We Shall Overcome" to the faint crump of Syrian shells. The shelter's occupants were not as sure of their impending triumph as foreign experts. They knew only that if Syrian troops swarmed down from the brown hills across the Jordan, they would have to fight to the last woman and child. The Syrians would leave no one alive. "I was not afraid," says Naomi without hesitation, "Only worried--about my brother...
...family took shelter in the plane, melted snow for drinking water, subsisted a while on two jars of jelly and a couple of sandwiches taken on the trip. In mid-March, when Oien was well enough to move, he set out through five feet of snow for help. "At 1:15 p.m., Al shouted O.K. and crossed the gully," the diary said. Days later, Carla wrote, "Fear Al did not make it ... Getting weak...