Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people will have the vote, which they never had under previous governments. As for urban blacks, I'm prepared to give them all the opportunities for local government, for recreation and social activities. But political rights in the white areas, no. These will be exercised in their own homelands. And it should be pointed out that many of the homeland leaders are urban blacks...
...result, more than 5,000 Angolans have fled to refugee camps in Namibia, joining 5,000 others who left their homeland during an earlier government offensive against UNITA. At the same time, there are some 16,000 Angolan refugees in neighboring Zambia, which banned UNITA from operating in that country. The Zambians, who had been one of UNITA'S principal backers, evidently decided that their support could not continue now that Angola had been given a seat...
...PENOBSCOT and Passamaquoddy suit raises several tricky issues that have long lurked in the shadows of the American historical drama, but have never really gained center stage attention. Critics of the U.S. reservation program have compared it to the South African homeland policy. As in South Africa, reservations were begun to provide the federal government with ways of simply removing Native Americans from the political mainstream. In recent years it has yielded the reservations more and more sovereignty, so that today many tribes have the power to tax, to license and to set and enforce laws for all reservation residents...
...breakfast with city department heads, he and his wife Eleanor were presented with a gift of round-trip tickets to Ireland, homeland of the mayor's grandparents. At the Civic Center Plaza, Hizzoner watched artists fashion Christmas sculptures out of ice. On to the dedication of a new gymnasium, where Daley deftly sank a basket...
Some Palestinians, of course, are already thinking about their prospective new homeland in practical economic terms. These "Jews of the Arab world." as other Arabs haughtily refer to Palestinians, are already involved in tourism, real estate, banking and engineering elsewhere in the Middle East. They envision a Palestinian state that would become a kind of Middle Eastern Liechtenstein, offering a corporate base at easy tax rates for companies that wanted to operate in the Middle East. They assume that wealthy Arab states like Saudi Arabia would underwrite the costs of building a new country...