Word: shanties
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...costs of the epidemic to the city have grown from $184,000 in 1981 to $17.5 million this year. | Fortunately, San Francisco seems better prepared than other U.S. cities to cope with the coming flood of medical needs. Organizations such as the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Hospice and the Shanti project have developed nationally renowned networks of volunteers to care for the afflicted...
...Francisco, which has 289 AIDS victims, a group surpassed only by New York City's 988, is trying to ease the dilemma by helping finance two home-care plans: a visiting-nurse program and Shanti ("inner peace" in Sanskrit), a volunteer organization that provides peer counseling for the terminally ill and their families and runs two residences for AIDS patients. San Francisco is also planning to open a special, long-term treatment center...
...funeral took place in New Delhi's Shanti Vana Park, less than 100 yards from a memorial to Nehru. The cortege arrived at 6:30 p.m., with the family riding in a jeep. There was only one slipup: Rajiv began to put incense and camphor on the body before the flag of the Congress Party (I) (for Indira) had been removed. When this was done, mantras were chanted and the pyre...