Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saying no more than that, Bohemia seemed to be telling the reader that there was actually a great deal more to say. Meanwhile, a circumstantial account of the incident flashed around Cuba and jumped the Straits of Florida to Miami, where exiled opposition leaders keep close tabs on their homeland, only an hour away by airliner. According to this account, detectives of the Cuban Bureau of Investigation swooped down on the cardinal's palace one night shortly after the rebellion had been suppressed. In the midst of a frenzied city-wide search for anti-Batista plotters, they had picked...
...Buenos Aires last May as a stowaway aboard the liner Yapeyu, expecting to find an earthly paradise; Argentine seamen in the Spanish port of Vigo, where the boy led a catch-as-catch-can existence begging and running errands, had filled his ear with wondrous tales of their homeland. Argentine immigration authorities were not so encouraging, planned to send El Galleguito back to Spain. But a few weeks ago somebody helped him write a letter to President Juan Perón. "I do not want to return to Spain," the letter said, "and I know you will not fail...
...guarded by Indian troops only. To placate Syngman Rhee, the Indians will take custody in a part of the buffer zone near Panmunjom-which is outside Rhee's administrative area. For 90 days the Reds may send representatives to persuade the unwilling prisoners to return to their homeland. The number of such "explainers" is limited to seven for each 1,000 prisoners, and the interviews will be monitored by the N.N.R.C. and by a member of the "detaining side" (which means, in effect, that a U.S. or other trusted U.N. officer will watch every Red attempt to cajole...
This year there is scarcely an opera house in Wagner's homeland that has not adopted some of their simplified staging as standard. As for the objectors, each year there are fewer of those who can remember Bayreuth's original traditions...
...unwilling prisoners to return to the Communists . . ." Sir Winston Churchill agrees with this principle, but he insists that the Chinese have also recognized it by agreeing to turn over unwilling prisoners to neutral custody. If, while under neutral custody, the Communists cannot "eliminate their apprehensions" about returning to their homeland, the fate of these prisoners would be turned over to a political conference...