1. Gov. David Beasley of South Carolina acknowledged that officials could not force residents from their homes. 2. He says that last Friday, masked Serb paramilitaries went door-to-door down his street and forced the residents from their houses. 3. In rural Maine, many residents were forced to shower at YMCAs as wells stopped pumping. 4. Older buildings are snapped up and longtime residents are forced out by rising rents. 5. One result, though, is that residents are forced into cars for even small errands. 6. Palestinians and rights advocates assert that restrictive Israeli zoning policies leave Palestinian communities no room to expand, forcing residents to build illegally for their growing families. 7. Rental increases, according to a study of gentrified neighborhoods in New York City, which includes Harlem, rarely force low-income residents out of redeveloped areas. 8. Residents are being forced off the streets under threat of being shot, and the searches are reportedly very thorough. 9. Some precincts in the capital and southern Chiapas state lacked enough ballots, forcing some resident to wait up to four hours to cast their vote. 10. So on Thursday the U.S. soldiers forced the residents to pony up evidence that they owned what they wanted to take. |
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