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...shoppers hurried home at dusk, they were startled to see two young men, aged 18 and 19, being marched through Belfast's Falls Road slum, heavily populated by Catholics. A group of angry members of the I.R.A. (the outlawed Irish Republican Army) tied the two boys to a lamppost and poured cold tar varnish and feathers over their shaved heads. Placards tied around the victims' necks proclaimed; "This man has been found guilty and confessed to breaking and entering. This sentence has been passed by the Republican movement...
With some 318,000 practitioners, the U.S. has more doctors than most other industrial nations. In rural and slum areas, however, many Americans are unable to see a physician when they are ill. Few medical men are willing to settle or practice in locations that offer high personal risks or poor medical facilities. At least 5,000 rural communities across the country have no doctors at all; some city ghettos have only one for every 10,000 residents...
...buildings, or those who had been evicted for failing to pay rent-began five years ago, the average family's stay before moving on to permanent quarters was 4½ days. Then came urban renewal, which in the past three years succeeded admirably in clearing large tracts of slum dwellings (45,000 units in 1969 alone) but failed woefully to put low-cost housing in their place...
...discoveries were pleasant, reported TIME Rome Correspondent Wilton Wynn, who made the trip with the Pope. On his last afternoon in Manila, Paul traveled to the dilapidated shacks of the city's Tondo slum. There he visited the home of Carlos Navarro, a construction worker who tries to support a wife and eight children on a dollar a day-when he can find work. Before he left Navarro's dirt-floored shack, the Pope slipped $500 into Navarro's pocket. For the astonished Navarro, the money meant at least two years' income. The Pope left...
Hunneman Realty, manager of much of Harvard's property, also manages Brazao's apartment. "It would be foolish to say that Brazao is a slum lord and therefore should be removed from Hunneman's list because Harvard is one, too," Cunningham said...