Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world has become a global village, as Marshall McLuhan would have it, the Palestinians have become its most troubled ghetto minority. Evicted from their ancient homeland by the influx of Jews after World War II. the Palestinians were driven into the squalid misery of refugee camps on the Jordanian desert. The Arab governments, which could have helped them, preferred to allow the refugees to remain in the camps as living symbols of the Israeli usurpation. The Israelis were unwilling to accept large numbers of Palestinians inside their own borders and thus risk becoming a minority within their own state. Gradually...
...trikov took his Mexican girl friend Christina with him when he went to apply for asylum, while Aleksander Silippov left no doubt that his fascination with Brazilian Dancer Lucia Tristao was the main reason for his staying. For Lucia he has given up his wife, mother and the homeland to which he still professes loyalty...
Large Bite. The hassle about the bequest derives from the fact that the count was intent on leaving a memorial to himself in his own homeland, but the state insisted on a large tax bite for itself. He died (in 1955) before the issue was settled, but in his will he directed that his heirs should find some way of giving part of his collection to the state. Negotiations between family and state dragged on for 14 years. Part of the deal is that the family's half could be sold outside Italy without the 30% duty imposed...
...only three weeks of language instruction, the novices from India found convent life even more difficult because they could not communicate. To complicate the problem, not all the girls wanted to become nuns: many wanted to learn teaching or nursing and hoped eventually to be sent back to their homeland. Still others apparently wanted only to escape from the problems of Kerala...
...most leaders are willing to consider a compromise, especially as part of a deal that would return the territories captured by the Israelis in the 1967 war. Even Egypt's Nasser has spoken privately of a negotiated plan that would allow "significant numbers" to return to their homeland...