Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...formidable threat from the Arab side. It comes from the fedayeen, the Palestinian commandos who live and fight on the soil of Israel's neighbors but feel bound by none of their policies-especially any that might formally recognize Israeli control over a single foot of the Palestinian homeland...
...alternative, suggested by many Israelis, and even the Soviets, would be to create a Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan. Another, put forward by Arabs, is to change the very basis of Israel from a Jewish homeland to a secular, multinational state...
...Ibos established the breakaway nation of Biafra and precipitated Black Africa's worst civil war. When the war ended last January, close to 2,000,000 of them were dead or missing, Biafran Leader Odumegwu Ojukwu was headed for exile in the Ivory Coast, and the Ibo homeland was a shambles. But with the armistice six months old this week, the Ibos appear well on the way to reviving. "They have not been conquered," said the Yoruba. "They have merely cleared the decks to build anew...
...White House decided that bombing was a little too spectacular. What was needed, they decided, were specially-trained Marines who would be ready to make a quick trip to a rebellious land, get rid of the rebellion, set up a puppet government, and then return to defend the homeland. After all, hadn't the CIA coup in Guatemala worked just that...
...most remarkable works of that period, Fille-Fleur, is at once colored with nostalgic memories of the bright costumes of his homeland and, in its ellipses and squares, prophetic of the direction that Vasarely would take. It was not until after the war that the artist, spurred on by the enterprising Paris dealer Denise Rene, was able to devote himself full time to his art. He read numerous scientific volumes and decided that Mondrian and Malevich had written fini to easel painting. "Pure physics suddenly revealed itself before my dazed eyes as the new poetic source," he recalls...