Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until now the PLO has rejected the resolution as the basis for peace, arguing that it treats the Palestinians only as a refugee problem and ignores their quest for self-determination and a homeland...
Like Marie Antoinette approaching the guillotine, Imelda Marcos confronted fate with her head high. Stepping from a stretch limo in lower Manhattan, the former Philippine First Lady stunned the waiting throng with her sheer, low- cut turquoise terno -- the national costume in her homeland. Amid pushing photographers and chanting protesters, the elegant attire seemed inappropriate for the occasion: Imelda Marcos was being arraigned, fingerprinted and photographed in federal court...
Nazi thugs destroyed 267 synagogues in West Germany, killed 91 Jews, rounded up 30,000 for shipment to concentration camps, destroyed Jewish homes and ransacked 7,500 Jewish businesses. The same thing happened in Austria, Hitler's homeland, which he had annexed to the Third Reich eight months earlier...
...service consultant: "One is the policy they tell the American people . . . the embargo. The second . . . pursued in secret, ((is)) the lack of enforcement." While Customs has turned a blind eye, Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. have shipped up to $200 million a year in currency and goods to their homeland. "People assumed that it was O.K.," says Mai Cong, president of the Vietnamese Community Center of Orange County. Now the signal from Customs seems to be that toleration has its limits...
...atrocities, there shines one fundamental truth regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict--the Israelis have a state, the Palestinians do not. Common sense would dictate that if there is ever to be peaceful coexistence, the national aspirations of the Palestinian people must be achieved. Palestinians, like the Israelis, deserve a homeland...