Word: shantytown
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...became clear that Blair wasn't going to stand down did the plates start flying through the air." The sound of breaking crockery can be heard well beyond the confines of Westminster. A BBC TV crew, accompanying Brown on his Africa trip, asked a passerby in the Kenyan shantytown of Kibera if he recognized the visiting dignitary. The reply: "He's Tony Blair's biggest rival." Few members of the Labour Party believe that what now divides their leaders is ideology. "There may be discussions about how quickly you implement change or the way you present change, but their approach...
...This petitioners' village, with its desperate residents pushing plastic bags filled with documents at any interested passersby, is an embarrassment for the central government. So, each year, as the NPC plans its annual meeting in the capital to discuss major legislative and social issues, the police raze the petitioners' shantytown?only to see it sprout anew like some stubborn weed. This year, the demolition began in late January in preparation for the March 5 commencement of the NPC. Li barely escaped the security officials who hustled petitioners into vans to send them back to their hometowns. He lost his blanket...
...live in the slums of Manila?labyrinths of squatter huts without electricity or plumbing and filled to their corrugated roofs with pestilence and vermin. Every once in a while, life there gets even crueler. Two Sundays ago, an incident occurred at Block 4, Lot 41, of a Manila shantytown on the grounds of the Bataan Shipyard & Engineering Co., at the home of Zaldy and Racquel Eusebio. Neighbors say the couple was quarrelling and Racquel threw a candle at her husband. The Eusebios say a candle simply fell over. Either way, a conflagration began. The slum extends well into the fetid...
...family and made them rich. Arbus, her younger sister Renee and her older brother Howard--later a U.S. poet laureate--grew up on Park Avenue. She spoke once of realizing the existence of another world, a forbidden zone, when her nanny took her to Central Park to see a shantytown built there by unemployed...
...partner, say analysts - is the 18,000-member Revolutionary Armed Forces (farc) in neighboring Colombia, whose gratuitous violence and narco-wealth have made them a mafia in rebel fatigues. A farc-Shining Path merger is the last thing South America's economically beleaguered Andes region needs. In the Lima shantytown of Raucana - the only community Shining Path ever built in its bloody heyday - shopkeepers like Maria are now afraid to even talk about the group. The Shining Path, she insists, "are still watching...