Word: slum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Those grisly scenes of execution are becoming alarmingly commonplace in Brazil's major cities. Hundreds of such deaths have been reported so far this year, over 150 of them in Rio's northern slum of Baixada Fluminense. On one typical day this month, Rio police discovered seven scarred and bullet-torn bodies. The victims included a suspected prostitute, a transvestite, a photographer and his girlfriend...
Paying off Shell's huge claim would add to Lloyd's already impressive financial woes. Among other things, the venerable insurance market is being sued by 36 of its member underwriters in a case involving insured Bronx slum buildings put to the torch. Last year, Lloyd's investigated the smoking of five supertankers and dozens of other vessels; it estimates that, worldwide, 100 cargo ships were purposefully sunk in 1979, accounting for losses of $250 million...
...troops. Last week, after a visit to the city-whose population of 300,000 has been swollen by thousands of refugees-TIME Correspondent David DeVoss filed this report: There are at least 60 different rebel factions fighting in Afghanistan. Nearly a dozen of them have headquarters in a reeking slum on the edge of Peshawar's old Afghan colony in the shadow of the old Mogul fortress that still dominates the skyline. On any given night, many of the insurgents traverse the rocky goat paths back into Afghanistan to join 50,000 of their countrymen in trying...
...entirely on my name." Indeed, there was little doubt that the country had responded once again to the dynastic magic of the daughter of India's venerated first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Apparently forgotten were her authoritarian ways: the coercive programs of enforced male sterilization and slum clearance that took place during the emergency, the arrest of tens of thousands of political opponents, the censorship of the press. Mrs. Gandhi had successfully appealed to the elemental needs and concerns of India's rural masses with her two election slogans: "Banish Poverty" and "Law and Order." Combining charisma with...
...Karl Marx were to visit Italy's capital of Rome, he would be undone by what the Romans do under a Communist administration. Communist Mayor Luigi Petroselli, 47, and his Communist predecessor have pushed forward a slum clearance program that has won only the enmity of the city's poor. Instead of being grateful, families that were moved into new apartment buildings in Rome from shantytowns outside the capital complained that they had to pay city taxes and electric bills. Formerly, the shantytown dwellers had obtained free electricity by tapping power lines. They also complained that apartment living...