Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that initial wording to a statement opposing pro-Zionist theology was led by the Rev. Benjamin Weir, the former U.S. missionary in Lebanon who was held hostage by Muslim terrorists for 16 months until his release last September. To him, both Jews and Palestinians have the right to a homeland. Weir is completing a year as the church's Moderator (titular head). Besides amending the section on Israel, Weir's allies, primarily churchmen who have worked in the Middle East, got the document downgraded from a church-policy statement to a study paper, pending further discussions...
...annually over the past three years because of the weak economy. Black trade unionists claim that the wages of black workers have been cut once their American employers have departed. Many black leaders fear far more serious consequences. Says Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Chief Minister of the KwaZulu homeland and a longtime critic of divestiture: "If the South African economy is destroyed along with apartheid, we will have to build on the quicksands of deepening poverty." For now, though, divestiture does not seem to have had much effect -- positive or negative -- on the national economy. Since buyers of American subsidiaries are producing...
...outlawed independent labor movement. The martial law that had abruptly ended Poland's democratic experiment was still in effect, and he was not even permitted to visit Gdansk, the Baltic shipbuilding city that gave birth to Solidarity. But last week, on his third visit as Pope to his homeland, John Paul more than made up for lost time. Speaking in Gdansk from a giant outdoor altar built in the stylized form of a wooden sailing vessel, the Pontiff not only talked about Solidarity but pleaded with his audience to continue abiding by the principles of the banned organization. "Let this...
...been given permission to work in the West Bank or to emigrate elsewhere because of the fiery anti-Israeli speeches he delivered at Bethlehem University. Young people are coming to believe that only force can bring a solution. Though Abu Nabil does not believe violence will win back the homeland, he reluctantly agrees that words are not enough. "My generation can fight only with our tongues," he warns. "Theirs will have to fight with guns...
...Indian government has been struggling since 1983 to control Punjab's militant Sikhs, who have been waging a violent campaign for an independent homeland. After last year's breakdown of a fragile peace accord between the Sikhs and the government, terrorists stepped up their deadly campaign. Nearly 600 people were killed in 1986, and more than 300 have already been murdered this year...