Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coca and converted the leaves locally into raw coca paste (see box). Colombians have taken care of 80% of the rest of the business, refining the paste into pure cocaine, then smuggling it into the U.S. As some of the Colombian drug dons have been forced out of their homeland, however, and as coca plants have begun to shoot up in Ecuador and Brazil, refineries have been springing up in Panama, Venezuela, Argentina and even Miami...
...Mandela question aside, the South African government appears to be intent on some easing of restrictions against the country's 27 million nonwhites. Forced resettlement of black communities from "white" land to black homeland areas is to be halted, and central business districts in many white towns are to be opened to all racial groups. Last week the government agreed even to investigate, for possible repeal, two of the pillars of apartheid: the sets of laws forbidding mixed-race marriages and sexual relations across racial lines...
...federal government, and we urge our representatives in Congress to impose economic and political sanctions on the all-white regime. In addition, we encourage Bok to continue his work with the South Africa Education Program, which brings non-whites to this country's universities and returns them to their homeland to lead their troubled nation away from apartheid...
...talk, sponsored by the American Committee for Human Rights (ACHR), may mark the last time Kim will speak in Cambridge, as he will return to his homeland in February for the first time since his release from prison there...
...dedicated [him] self to his people's aspirations for democracy and human rights" hopes that by returning to his homeland he will "instill hope in South Korea's young" and preserve the struggle for democracy until 1988 when presidential elections are scheduled...