Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West, is now being invaded by jobseekers from around the world eager-for a fee-to help newly rich nations with their development programs. But by far the most unusual newcomers are the growing numbers of South Korean contractors, who bring with them legions of disciplined workers from their homeland. Although scores of countries are cashing in on the Arab world's desperate need for labor, the Koreans have come farther and profited faster than most in the push to modernize the oil-rich sheikdoms. In 1973 South Korea earned $24 million in the Middle East. The score...
...mainly refugees from Communism. They often had to make their break suddenly, and even some of the most celebrated are motivated by a simple sense of survival. Svetlana Alliluyeva, only daughter of Joseph Stalin, now living quietly in Princeton, N.J., says that the very idea of revisiting her homeland would be "ridiculous, to think that someone who got out of prison would want to go back to prison." Czech Tennis Star Martina Navratilova, now playing at Wimbledon but resident in Los Angeles, says scornfully that native-born Americans "don't know what they've got. Anybody that complains about life...
Japanese Analogy. Republican voters this year seemed unconcerned by his late coming to their party. If Hayakawa's campaign rhetoric was less than sensational, Finch's was downright dull. Hayakawa answered questions about his age with an allusion to his ancestral homeland: "Before World War II in Japan they killed off all the older politicians. All that were left were the damn fools who attacked Pearl Harbor. I think that this country needs elder statesmen too." If that rather strained analogy does not help, the age issue is reduced by the fact that he still tap-dances...
McCartney is proud to be a little bit of old England-even though the homeland taxes him up to 83% on earned income, up to 98% on investments. "I love the place," he says. "I see it as having one of the biggest potentials in the world." The McCartney politics are conservative. "Paul would be a sort of Republican," says John Eastman. His philosophy of child rearing is elemental. "We try to be very open with them, but not to the point of Dr. Spock, where they sort...
...Across the 800-mile-long border with Mozambique, 3,000 armed, trained and increasingly bold black Rhodesian guerrillas stand ready to attack. At least 5,000 more, in a half-dozen camps, are being trained by Chinese and Mozambican advisors to make deadly forays back into their white-dominated homeland...