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Meat is rationed to one kilogram per family per week; in many parts of the countryside, people get only one kilogram a month. Says Nikolle Llesh Doda, 29, who lives with his wife and baby son in a two-room house in the tiny village of Vau i Denhes: "Fifteen years ago, we were all putting more and better food on our tables...
Like Thatcher, he rose to the upper political echelons from humble beginnings. The son of a circus trapeze artist and onetime mercenary in Brazil, Major grew up in a two-room apartment in the poor London suburb of Brixton and left school at 16 to help support his parents. He drifted for a while before starting what turned out to be a successful career in banking. During that period, he worked as a laborer and even spent some time on the dole. Major later went to Nigeria to do community work; there he confirmed his deep hatred of racism. Following...
...Nobel Peace Prize. But he was best known as the indefatigable champion of the dissident, the downtrodden and the persecuted in his country. It was in this role that he incurred the deadly wrath of Brezhnev and the KGB. In the decade before Sakharov's banishment to Gorky, his two-room apartment was a haven for men and women who had fallen afoul of Soviet totalitarianism. Sitting at his enamel-top kitchen table, drinking apple-flavored tea, he dispensed precious counsel and gifts of money to an endless stream of visitors in trouble...
Among its recipients is Johnnie Murry, who used to live with her husband and 15 children in a two-room trailer. In 1984 MadCAAP brought a four-bedroom house to Murry's farm. Now white curtains hang from the windows and stuffed animals, high school banners and framed graduation pictures decorate the wood- paneled walls. "We can sleep better now," says Murry. "I am grateful that I have a place to cook, a table to feed my family at and a place for me to rest later...
...wife and two children live in a spare, two-room apartment of about 30 sq. yds. provided by his school. The bathroom is down the hall. In the smaller room the kids share a bed under a Michael Jackson poster. On the wall above the sink and the small stove are a calendar and a photo of the New York City skyline. "It's not much," says Bi, but the subsidized rent is only $4 a month...