Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These two angry men are among the 221,000 refugees from Viet Nam who have been resettled on state farms; 78,000 in Guangxi province, 27,000 in Yunnan and others scattered in Guangdong and Fujian provinces. Thirty thousand more are in refugee camps near the Viet Nam border waiting for places in permanent settlement areas...
Meanwhile, Harvard officials are waiting, gnashing their teeth and talking about the agency's failure to uncover the documents that will vindicate the University. Thomas O'Brien, vice-president for financial affairs, predicts that HEW will eventually only demand that the University return a few hundred thousand dollars due to insufficient documentation--in contrast to the $2.5 million the original audit asserted had been misused. Both O'Brien and other University officials say the agency derived the $2.5 million figure after dissecting only a small part of the total--and then extrapolating the results...
Stunned and grieving, a thousand residents of the nearby coastal village of Warrenpoint gathered tearfully in the town square for a hastily arranged vigil presided over by both Protestant and Catholic clergy. Afterward some walked to the scene of the explosions to lay flowers by the roadside even as the military still searched for remains...
...over the south of Lebanon now there is emptiness. No one works the fields; the shepherds are gone, and so are their flocks. Two hundred thousand people have fled the south. Until last week's Israeli raids, according to Lebanese observers, 190 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians had been killed, and 350 had been wounded during the four-month period...
...order to dramatize, according to Mrs. Abzug, the fact "that while President Carter was showboating on the Mississippi, Americans were left up the creek in the fight against rising prices." To itemize that metaphor, the two sailors paid only $3 for their trip, while the presidential excursion cost several thousand. The pair also launched a new political organization called Women U.S.A. and urged their sisters across the land to ship their household bills, once paid, to Congress as a protest. Somehow, however, the ladies of the lake look becalmed...