Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impact of the new attitude. Some 180,000 Vietnamese troops are preparing a final offensive against Pol Pot's surviving forces. Their attack could drive hundreds of thousands more into refugee camps in Thailand, where so many Cambodians have already sought to escape the tragedy of their homeland...
Discussing the issue mainly responsible for black-Jewish tensions today, Farmer said "I think the Palestinians have a right to a homeland." But he added, "I do not think a Black-PLO alliance is in the interest of Black Americans. Legitimizing the PLO may encourage our own would-be terrorists. I'd hoped the urban guerillas of the '60s were behind us." Unfortunately, much of the civil rights fervor of the '60s is also behind us. "Civil rights issues are no longer front-burner in the country...
...next song, "Africa Unite," shows Marley's increasing concern for his homeland where he hopes to eventually lead his people in a mass migration across the Atlantic...
...Iranians who entered the U.S. as students and simply stayed on. Although they are illegal aliens, it is unlikely that courts would permit many of them to be expelled. One reason: thousands came to the U.S. at the Shah's expense. If they were repatriated to their homeland, they would face certain punishment, and possibly death...
Connally has a point, and he consulted such experts as Henry Kissinger and Jordan's King Hussein before adopting it. Although his proposal goes somewhat further than Jimmy Carter's support of a Palestinian "homeland," self-determination is obviously a principle that has widespread support. Indeed, some experts believe it is the only principle that can attract the volatile Palestinians to the negotiating table. Other experts wonder, nonetheless, what coercion would persuade the Israelis to agree to any plan that might bring the Palestine Liberation Organization to sovereign power. And, although the pro-Israeli protests may be exaggerated...