1.   As no party emblems were allowed, mostly illiterate rural campesinos and urban slum dwellers in particular were unable to distinguish between the parties and most failed to vote.

2.   A terrible drought has driven many from the countryside into urban slums, where they are easier to control.

3.   But in most cases, living in a company town was better than trying to survive in an urban slum or on a subsistence farm.

4.   But the ruling party lost important cities, including Nezahualcoyotl, a vast urban slum in Mexico state that went to the PRD.

5.   Cows, goats and chickens roam the urban slum.

6.   In the election this month, the Welfare Party did well throughout the country, showing special strength in villages and urban slums.

7.   Like other urban areas in the developing world, Istanbul is a magnet as people abandon the impoverished countryside for sprawling urban slums.

8.   Not all welfare recipients live in urban slums and collect AFDC.

9.   Originally, the registration system was part of Communist social planning and it helped China avoid the growth of huge urban slums.

10.   Signs of gangs are evident in the graffiti used to mark territory in urban slums and rural hamlets.