Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that I am the benevolent and enlightened despot of my exasperating homeland, the U.S.A., and can eliminate any stupidity or foolishness by waving my hand. I have already banished basketball coaches, light beer and neckties. Now, on the third or fourth day of hand waving, will I decide to ban hunting? My local newspaper, the Concord, N.H., Monitor, reports that black bears have migrated southward in our state. I knew this already. I haven't had the luck to see one, but a few weeks ago a neighbor saw three of them, presumably a female and two cubs...
Thousands of East Germans disillusioned by 40 years of communist rule and skeptical of promised reforms continued to flood from their homeland, with more than 50,000 reaching West Germany since Saturday. Proreform groups pleaded with their compatriots to stay and help "build a real democratic society...
...people will keep fleeing as long as they can," said Christian Schreiber, a 23-year-old East German who joined fellow citizens taking advantage of the new freedom to escape their Communist homeland through Czechoslovakia...
PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia--More than 1300 young East Germans jammed the West German Embassy yesterday to seek new lives in the West, and many scoffed at promised reforms in the communist homeland they left behind...
...German embassy in Prague, as Czechoslovakia was the only country to which they were allowed to travel without an exit permit. Those who could slip into Poland converged on Bonn's compound in Warsaw. And when special trains carrying the refugees to West Germany were routed back through their homeland, near riots resulted. Dozens clambered over fences, lunged at the passing cars and climbed aboard, convinced that the moving trains offered the last opportunity...