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...proposed loan for a big water project, and it turns out that 99% of the water is going to be used for a private industry in a country with serious human rights problems, that would get a negative vote. But if the water is going to a slum area, where people now have to walk two miles to carry water by bucket, that's entirely different. We might very well favor such a loan...
...poverty-stricken countryside. But regardless of their popularity, the FSLN can never succeed with a purely military approach. The strength of Somoza's power derives from his control of the 7500-member Guardia National, a combination army and secret police force trained and equipped by the U.S. The campesinosand slum-dwellers of Managua have no weapons to combat this counter-insurgent force; and their collective poverty further weakens their ability to resist...
...with those of the 3,000 Americans, but are forbidden access to the golf course, swimming pool, free movies and subsidized food available to the outsiders. For security reasons, only Americans can live on the island. Every night the natives must commute by boat three miles to Ebeye, a slum island where 7,000 people are segregated on just 73 acres...
There are sections of the city which can match any slum in the world for terrible conditions. Bush-wick--block after block of burned-out buildings and garbage-filled empty lots--looks like a city bombed to rubble in World War Two. East New York, Oceanhill-Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant and other ghettoes are a dark stain on the pages of our society. How can such deprivation exist among general affluence...
...Dick Wrangle, 40, an Oklahoman who came to Washington ten years ago as a Methodist minister. Now he and his wife Cheryl are wood sculptors and cabinetmakers who earn a living selling their handmade furniture. The Wrangles would never move from their weathered cedar house in a former black slum in central Seattle. Says Dick: "The environment here fits my work...