Word: squalidity
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RADIO AND TELEVISION. Broadcast religion was once a mainline monopoly, but since the 1960s it has been dominated by evangelical aggressiveness. In the wake of the squalid televangelism scandals, mainliners last fall launched an interfaith cable network called VISN. It is potentially their most strategic project in many years, but so far programming has been dull and dated. Significantly, it was a secular cable company, not mainline agencies, that came up with the idea for VISN...
When the S.P.L.A. overruns a village, it collects all the food and clothing and sends residents into the bush. Then the rebels mine the fields, the houses and the surrounding footpaths so no one can return. The S.P.L.A. even drove displaced people from squalid camps near Juba, forcing them to abandon their crops a second time. The S.P.L.A. reaped the harvest. George Tombe, 32, is a chieftain of Kabo, a village 9 miles west of Juba. The S.P.L.A. stormed Kabo and beat him. "They took everything," he whispers, including the crops. "The harvest was good this year. Now I wait...
...that legal evictions in New York City during one recent year totaled nearly half a million. He tries to keep cool while reporting that although New York owns more than 100,000 units of empty low- cost housing, it squanders $2,000 or more per family per month on squalid welfare hotels, and that the largest such hotel in New York is operated by (irony of ironies) South African "investors...
Moses goes on to state that "a solution to the situation on the West Bank must come from Israel, regardless of Arab intentions..." The fact is, that when the West Bank and Gaza were Jordanian and Egyptian hands, prior to 1967, the Arab refugees were kept in squalid camps, treated as animals by their own people, and used as expendables in implementing terrorist attacks against Israel. How can Israel disregard the intentions of those committed to its complete destruction...
...there was little thought of peace in the boiling Gaza Strip, where more than 600,000 Arabs live in an area 30 miles long and five miles wide. Every day last week fires from burning barricades flamed into the night, enveloping the squalid refugee camps in black smoke. The thunk-thunk of helicopters sounded overhead as soldiers tipped tear-gas canisters onto rioters below. The twisting alleyways echoed with the rattle of gunfire, the crackle of smashing fire bombs and the thud of stones...