Word: thatches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extreme northwest, two-thirds of the 2,300,000 population are classed as destitute. Government grain rations have been halved to three pounds a week for adults. So have the $18 grants for housing, which many are using to buy food. Some refugees are building houses of bamboo and thatch, dwellings that will be ruined when the rains start in May. Others are camped with friends, seemingly reluctant-or too broke-to start over. In Dacca itself, shantytowns have sprung up as shelter for 120,000 people...