Word: tenementation
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...sixth of Hong Kong's 3,250,000 people occupy squatter towns like Diamond Hill, made up of cardboard-walled cubicles and straw-mat lean-tos. More than 80,000 others find homes in tar-paper shacks on tenement rooftops. Some 362,000 refugees have already been housed in the colony's impressive resettlement projects, and construction over the next five years will care for 100,000 more annually. Even the unemployed Chinese refugees in Hong Kong need not starve: there are 86 private and public social service agencies...
...Judgment? Most of the storefront congregations are made up of white migrants from rural areas, who moved first to the city in search of factory jobs, and then to the suburbs after learning that they could buy a house on terms there for less than they paid for tenement rents. But some fundamentalist ministers claim that their young congregations include doctors, bankers and other professional men who have become dissatisfied with traditional Protestantism. "All the people have to be reached,'' says James Freeman, pastor of the Church of God. Mountain Assembly, in the Cincinnati suburb of Norwood...
...jobless Dad, without a tanner for a smoke, rages at hunger and helplessness, beats up nagging Mam, or stares at the wall. When the back rent piles up, it comes time for a "moonlight flit"-the household goods piled on a barrow and trundled at midnight to a vacant tenement in another slum...
...Raoul Salan's Secret Army Organization or the Moslem F.L.N.-is indiscriminate death: the machine gun fired from the speeding car can not be accurately aimed; the hand grenade lobbed into a crowded restaurant maims anyone within reach of its steel splinters; the bomb exploded in street or tenement kills whoever happens to be near by. One of the few men in Algeria to protest against the murderous nightmare is Leon Duval, 58, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Algiers. ''To repay evil with evil," he warned his fellow Europeans, "is to be conquered by evil. Replying to crime...
...another slain Moslem. Near Algiers, a French jeweler was "executed" as a traitor by the S.A.O. because he planned "to flee the country when it was in danger." At industrial Bone, where 1,500 years ago St. Augustine preached the City of God, a bomb destroyed a Moslem tenement, killing ten women and children, and Europeans drove off rescuers with rocks and pistol shots...