Word: homeland
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...years since the country, then known as Ceylon, won independence from Great Britain, their 2 million people have been discriminated against by the island's 11.8 million predominantly Buddhist Sinhalese majority. The rebels argue that they can achieve full rights to education and employment only by establishing a separate homeland, which they call Eelam...
...Tucson defendants, citing churches' traditional offers of asylum to those fleeing pursuers and the U.S. underground railroad for 19th century slaves, steadfastly claimed that they had a religious duty to aid people who fear abuse, prison or even death in their homeland. But to the Federal Government, which last year prosecuted 18,000 cases of smuggling illegal aliens, church activists warrant no special treatment. Says Commissioner Alan C. Nelson of the Immigration and Naturalization Service: "No group, no matter how well meaning and highly motivated, can arbitrarily violate the laws of the United States...
When he arrived in Moscow last week, a Soviet official asked to see some identification. "My face is my passport," replied Vladimir Horowitz, 81, returning to his homeland for the first time since he fled to the West 61 years ago. The pianist, who is to perform two concerts in Moscow and Leningrad under a new U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange, was reunited with his niece Elena, 70, and visited relatives and old friends including Elena, daughter of Composer Alexander Scriabin, who had idolized Horowitz since her youth. While authorities have given the maestro a less than warm welcome, Horowitz clearly...
...responsible for some of the youths' deaths in the township . . . for some of us missing our (school) examinations." At the beginning of this month, vigilantes in Winterveld bombed the houses of four activists who had organized a protest meeting in that tiny town near Pretoria in the independent homeland of Bophuthatswana. In the Pretoria area alone, 56 antiapartheid activists have been the targets of attacks during the past ten months. Says Nicholas Haysom, a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand and author of a new book on the growing phenomenon: "Vigilante activity has been directed at the destruction...
When Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of Joseph Stalin, defected to the U.S. almost 20 years ago and declared her homeland a "prison," the West enjoyed a huge propaganda coup. When she redefected to the Soviet Union in 1984, the Soviets could claim their own victory after she said that she had not been free for "one single day" while living in the U.S. Last week Svetlana again returned to American soil. But this time neither East nor West had much to say, perhaps in recognition that her restless wanderings are intensely personal and have little to do with ideologies...