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...world has become a global village, as Marshall McLuhan would have it, the Palestinians have become its most troubled ghetto minority. Evicted from their ancient homeland by the influx of Jews after World War II. the Palestinians were driven into the squalid misery of refugee camps on the Jordanian desert. The Arab governments, which could have helped them, preferred to allow the refugees to remain in the camps as living symbols of the Israeli usurpation. The Israelis were unwilling to accept large numbers of Palestinians inside their own borders and thus risk becoming a minority within their own state. Gradually...
...their homes in what is now Israel (only 340,000 are Israeli citizens), they have little to show for their brothers' endless promises to reconquer Palestine. Of their total number (2,500,000), about half are registered as refugees with the U.N., and half of those live in squalid refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria...
White Widows. In 1959 there were only 10,000 foreigners working in West Germany. Today there are 1,670,000, including 350,000 Italians, 326,000 Yugoslavs and 290,000 Turks. In France, whose migrant population of 3,000,000 is the largest in Europe, squalid shanty towns known as bidonvllles (after bidons, flattened gasoline cans that provide the basic building material) surround practically every major industrial city. In Switzerland, where the migrants now account for one-sixth of the population, a tourist is apt to discover that the only Swiss citizen in a restaurant is the man behind...
...morning long, they clambered on board-crippled old men, bony women chewing betel nuts, young mothers with arms full of babies, pots, pans and blankets. The 4,000-ton LST soon became a teeming refugee city of 2,000, a squalid campground with children everywhere and the smells of densely packed human life filling the air. Blankets and wicker mats were tied to a thick cable stretched across the main deck, making a city of half shelters. It all fell apart in the first breeze, but the Vietnamese carefully set about tying the shelters together again, just as they were...
...need only walk as far as the nearest publisher's office to get the message printed. The latest Jeremiah to join the prophets of ecological disaster is Robert Boyle, who is concerned with the Hudson River and man's efforts to turn this noble flood into a squalid sewer...