Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although it has never fought a war, the bathtub Royal Ceylon Navy* might at least be expected to defend its homeland, off southern India, against smugglers. But last week many a Ceylonese was wondering whose side of the smuggling racket the fleet was really...
...Bedouin chiefs led 4,000 tribesmen into the gardens of Basman Palace to shout "Long live Hussein, our King!" When the Bed ouins overenthusiastically roared anti-Nasser slogans, Hussein stopped them with an angry gesture, offering conciliation to Nasser with the words "Jordan is the heart of the Arab homeland and seeks Arab unity...
...last week with the resignation of former Havana Law Professor Jose Miro Cardona, 60, as head of the Cuban Revolutionary Council-a position for which he had been handpicked by the Administration. At issue: exile claims that the Administration had welshed on promises to help them return to their homeland and oust Castro...
Rocky reserved his biggest blasts for the Kennedy Administration's policy of preventing Cuban exiles from taking military action against their Communist homeland. Said he: "It is very hard for me to understand why we are supporting in South Viet Nam freedom fighters, and why we are holding them back and preventing them from operating in Cuba 90 miles off our shore. I hope it is not as a means or as an endeavor to placate or to appease the Soviets...
Finally, at a plenary session in the gilt-and-cream great hall of Kubbah Palace, Nasser proposed a sharing of guilt. "The presence of Baath in the Arab homeland is a necessity," he declared. "The resignation of the Baath ministers from the U.A.R. government in 1961 was a mistake. Accepting the resignations was also a mistake." The Baathist delegates clapped and cheered this burying of the hatchet. In a startlingly un-Arab spirit of amity and compromise, both sides accepted the other's good faith and minimum terms...