71.   Health Secretary Hilarion Ramiro was quoted as saying that the present four million population of urban slum dwellers nationwide was growing by almost four percent annually.

72.   Authorities in this Indian Ocean city threatened on Thursday to evict slum dwellers after four days of flooding made roads impassable and washed away makeshift homes in low-lying areas.

73.   City Commission chairman Charles Keenja warned that authorities would evict slum dwellers who built shacks in valleys, blocking drainage.

74.   During a meeting with church leaders and representatives of slum dwellers Thursday, however, Ramos said the APEC summit was not behind the clean-up campaign.

75.   The protest has brought togther a wide range of rural villagers, factory workers and slum dwellers.

76.   Wholesalers buy the water and sell it to slum dwellers lucky enough to have tanks, who then hawk it retail.

77.   Several thousand people, mostly slum dwellers, have taken shelter in a school-turned-camp opened by the Dhaka City Corporation.

78.   Some slum dwellers have been forced out by floodwaters, but others said they planned to stay put.

79.   Squatters or slum dwellers are often forcibly evicted from their homes and have their property destroyed.

80.   Some of the victims were slum dwellers who had taken shelter in the building, a police spokesman said.