Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Staying Home. In an effort to make up for the loss of foreign travelers, Britain, France and Sweden launched advertising campaigns to encourage their own citizens to travel within the homeland. "Sweden is fantastic," trumpeted one campaign, and great numbers of Swedes stayed home to a not-so-fantastic, record-setting July rainfall. More than a million Britons, or about a quarter of those who normally go abroad for their summer vacations, are holidaying at home. Millions of Frenchmen are staying home. Those Europeans who are traveling at home are forsaking more expensive resort hotels in favor of pensions...
Although this writer does not condone terrorism as a means of pursuing political ends, one must concede that the Palestinians do not have recourse to "legitimate" means for realizing their right to a national homeland. The international community has persistently turned a deaf car to their cause; they have no powerful spokesmen in the United States; they control no economic, informational, or financial resources in Western countries. They have grown desperate and impatient...
...timed to coincide with President Nixon's Middle Eastern trip. The raiders hoped to capture hostages whom they could exchange for comrades held in Israeli jails. They also wanted to demonstrate to Nixon that hard-core Palestinians will reject any peace settlement that does not return their former homeland to them...
...Council-a parliament of Palestinians hi exile-gathered to debate their next move. All the delegates also belong to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a conglomerate of six guerrilla organizations led by Yasser Arafat, which faces a dilemma: How can it continue to hold out against Israeli presence hi its homeland and at the same time withstand pressure from Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia to join the movement toward peace...
...King's statement suddenly put pressure on P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. Up till now, his organization has been split. Some fedayeen organizations, including Arafat's own Fatah, are reconciled to accepting the existence of Israel and attending the Geneva talks. At least initially, they would accept as a homeland the "22% of Palestine" composed of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Hemmeh region. But other groups, notably George Habash's Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, refuse to agree to anything but the abolition of Israel and the creation of a secular state for Arabs...