Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumphant cock's crow of victory, for all its exaggerations, was closer to the bitter truth. At the Bay of Pigs, on Cuba's south coast, a force of 1,300 wellarmed, well-trained anti-Castro freedom fighters last week launched a major campaign to rid their homeland of Communist dictatorship. They were defeated within two days by a better-armed, better-led enemy, who withstood their attack and delivered a crushing counterblow. The defeat, as all the world sensed, was a tragedy not only for Cuba's exiles. It was a debacle...
Locked Fingers. Eichmann's tape-recorded voice droned on for two days, ranging from the ridiculous ("I did not hate Jews. I was never an anti-Semite") to the tragicomic, as when he declared that the ideal of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine "interested me, probably because of my romantic side, my love of nature, of the mountains and forests...
...with admirable poise, the party line rolling easily off his tongue. He thanked the party, the government and Premier Khrushchev for trusting him, a simple Soviet pilot, with the first flight to outer space. "While in outer space," he said, "I was thinking about our party and about our homeland...
Perhaps because Portugal has been a colonial power for so long,* most modern Portuguese profess to see no distinction between the homeland and the Overseas Provinces, which are no longer referred to as colonies. Vivid in the memories of adult Portuguese are grade school wall maps on which Portugal (roughly the size of Indiana) was always accompanied by its mammoth possessions. Superimposed on the map of Europe, they extended clear across Spain and France. The message of the maps: "Portugal is not a small country." Last week events on two continents hastened the day when Portugal will in fact...
Cuba's two most important exile groups, after months of quarreling, met last week to form a shadow government dedicated to the liberation of their homeland. As flashbulbs popped in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, Manuel ("Tony") Varona, 52, coordinator of the middle-roading Revolutionary Democratic Front, and Manolo Ray, 36, chief of the farther left Revolutionary Movement of the People, shook hands and proclaimed the existence of the Cuban Revolutionary ouncil, in effect a government in exile, with a program and a president...