Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large part of Viet Nam. With roads out and bridges down, telephones dead and all other kinds of communications clogged, the South Vietnamese are still painfully piecing together the extent of their human and material losses. At least 3,000 civilians were killed and another 350,000 made homeless, adding to the country's already overburdened refugee rolls. Hospitals overflowed with some 7,000 wounded civilians. Food was in short supply in some places, private businesses and public services at a standstill in others. The roll of cities and towns nearly literally leveled to the ground reads like...
...their attack the time of Tet, the sacred family time of the year for the Vietnamese, they undoubtedly alienated major portions of the population. They also brought bullets and bombs into the very midst of heavily populated areas, causing indiscriminate slaughter of civilians caught in the crossfire and making homeless twice over the refugees who had fled to the cities for safety. Moreover, they totally misjudged the mood of the South Vietnamese. Believing their own propaganda, the Communists called for and expected a popular uprising to welcome the raiders as liberators. Nothing approaching that myth occurred anywhere in Viet...
...save his mother. The earthquake was by far Italy's worst since 75,000 people were killed at the other end of tremor-prone Sicily 60 years ago. The toll: as many as 500 people dead, more than 1,000 injured and 80,000 left homeless over a 600-square-mile carpet of destruction in one of the Mezzogiorno's most backward regions...
Much of western Sicily was turned into a giant refugee camp. Hundreds of thousands of Siciliani nervously slept outdoors even in such relatively unscathed cities as Palermo, because aftershocks continued to be felt for days. At the quake's epicenter, the homeless made tents of tarpaulin, huddled by bonfires, and waited for the government to distribute food and medicine, much of it contributed by the U.S. and Britain. Then, as if nature had not already done its worst, violent rains and winds lashed the quake area at week's end, turning the refugee encampments into quagmires and halting...
...shacks whose tin roofs clatter in the chill winter wind. The Arabs who occupy the camp are Palestinian refugees, who were assigned their 25 flat, barren acres by the United Nations after the Israeli army had driven them from their homes in north ern Palestine. The first of the homeless arrived there in 1947 just before Christmas. As their numbers swelled, TIME Correspondent James Bell was a frequent visitor to the refugee camp. Last week Bell returned to Ein el Hilweh to see what two decades had done to its people. His report...