Word: homeland
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...1920s, Machado helped found the Communist Party in Cuba, carried cash and medicines to guerrilla fighters in Nicaragua, worked with the Venezuelan Commu nist Party from exile on the Dutch island of Curacao. Eventually he kidnaped the Governor of Curasao, commandeered an American ship, and invaded his homeland...
...Russia's great novelist, has devoted her time to the care of anti-Communist refugees-and at her Tolstoy Foundation Center, near Nyack, is a group of Staroobriadtsi (Old Believers), survivors of a splinter sect of the Russian Orthodox Church whose members fled to Turkey from their homeland nearly 300 years ago. Miss Tolstoy enlisted the U.S. Government's aid in order to bring 224 of them over, and now hopes to help them set up a permanent community. "Think of all the rich people who have land they don't need," she says, "and they...
...wife and six children and lives in a sprawling suburban house outside Munich. He is a lecturer and journalist who wrote his doctoral thesis in social science on agriculture in the Tyrol. But when the way was legally cleared for his return to his homeland for the first time in 44 years, Austria's long-established coalition government trembled last week. For the mustached Herr Doktor is Franz Joseph Otto Ruprecht Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignaz, Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the Austrian throne...
Three Plagues. The Kurdish homeland begins above Biblical Mount Ararat and extends south in a long, mountainous loop to the Persian Gulf (see map). Because of the accidents of history and their own inability to unite, the estimated 6,000,000 Kurds are today divided among five different nations: the Soviet Union...
...Israel, even more than for most new nations, charity has never begun at home. For 15 years the struggling Jewish homeland has depended for financial help on outsiders, mostly in the U.S. American Jews have poured in $568 million in Bonds for Israel, $1,035,000,000 through the United Jewish Appeal and another $250 million in private investments that were often motivated by conscience. Both Israelis and Americans have tired of the endless hoopla of the "parlor meetings" by which such funds are raised. Last week, after ayear's discussion, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved the First...