Word: homeland
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...villagers are Tibetan refugees who were flown in to Zurich two months ago by chartered plane. Their Unterwasser home has an elevation of 3,000 ft., only about one-fourth that of Tibet, but Switzerland lies 15° north of their Asian homeland and the climatic conditions are much the same. Explains Lama Wangyal about the extraordinary transplant: "The mountains make us happy. We do not have forests, and our houses are built of stone, not wood. But this is also a country of snow, cheese and milk...
Harvard teachers do not usually celebrate their colleagues in public. Please allow me to break system by commemorating in your columns the life and work of Werner Jaegey. Like many Greeks of old, it befell him to be exiled from his country, and he found in America a homeland which continued to nourish his genius, and to which he gave the full measure of his service and affection. We are all the pearer for his passing. Eric A. Havelock, Professor of Greek and Latin. (Visiting Professor, Princeton University...
Marshall, 53, the great-grandson of a Congolese native who was snatched from his homeland and transported to slavery in the U.S., for years has fought in the frontlines legal battle against U.S. segregation. Born in Baltimore, he earned degrees from Lincoln and Howard universities, holds seven honorary doctorates. During his service with the N.A.A.C.P., he has had as many as 500 civil rights cases running at the same time, argued more than 30 of them before the Supreme Court. The high point of his career: his successful Supreme Court arguments that led to the historic 1954 school desegregation decision...
Citizenship does not automatically mean the right to vote. Like even the homeland Portuguese, Africans must first pass a literacy test and prove they have paid an annual tax of at least $7. Few can meet these requirements. But they will obtain, for the first time, the rights to judicial trial and the full protection of the law. The government removed some of the bloom from this offer by adding that Angola and the other African territories will receive greatly increased immigration from Portugal, including "the young men now doing their military service there." In short, the Portuguese solution...
...Only a pallid, two-page newspaper published twice a week in remote Birobidzhan on the Manchurian border kept the dim flame from guttering out. Last week that flame got its first fuel in 13 years as 25,000 copies of a new bimonthly Yiddish literary magazine, Sovietish Heimland (Soviet Homeland), came off the presses in Moscow...