A third of Manilans live cheek by jowl in makeshift settlements on any bit of spare land - under bridges, next to railway lines, beside flood defences as well as cemeteries.

It remains to be seen whether this means that the evacuation, scheduled to start next week, will take place smoothly, since at least one makeshift settlement contains a quite militant population.

Thus, because of their precarious situation, the Zabbaleen initially lived in makeshift settlements of tin huts, made mostly of barrels that the Zabbaleen found amongst the waste that they collected.

Not long after the Pilgrims set anchor in the harbor they called Plymouth in 1620, the Wampanoag leader Massasoit paid them a visit near their makeshift settlement and made a wary offer of friendship.

Late in the seventh season, the ship finds a colony of Talaxians on a makeshift settlement in an asteroid field, and Neelix chooses to bid Voyager farewell and live once again amongst his people.

Deep in the jungle here, makeshift settlements of wood logs and plastic sheets are springing up everywhere, their population swelling monthly.

Defense Minister Moshe Arens warned that illegal actions would not be tolerated and that the makeshift settlements would be dismantled.

At first, some residents mistook the makeshift settlement in the shopping center for a group of homeless people, said the Carmel Town Supervisor, Richard T. Othmer.

Fire was always a deadly danger in makeshift settlements like the Camp, and one of the most important things the original military command council had done was to organize fire drills and firefighting procedures.

Tonight, dozens of bloodstained blankets and mattresses, a charred, flat-bed truck and the scent of corpses were all that was left of the makeshift settlement.