Word: homeland
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Those tactics appear to be part of a government strategy to force an end to Africa's longest-running war. For 23 years, Eritrean guerrillas have been battling governments in Addis Ababa. The prize is control of their 45,400-sq.- mi. homeland, a former Italian colony absorbed by Ethiopia in 1962 during the rule of the late Emperor Haile Selassie. In the mid-1970s, the insurgents were joined in the struggle by Tigrean guerrillas demanding greater autonomy for their 25,400-sq.-mi. province. The insurgencies have intensified in the years since the 1974 coup against Haile Selassie that...
...short, sturdy young woman says she left her homeland nine months ago after finding out she was on the hit list-of right-wing death squads in her home country. She is a labor union organizer, a vocation the Duarte government in El Salvador views with suspicion...
...Estella has been learning English and knitting a rug. She also helps workers in the Central American Solidarity Association and New Institute of Central America offices at the Baptist church. She says she has met "muchos amigos" since she has been in Cambridge which include people from her homeland...
Before he was named this year's Nobel laureate in literature, Czech Poet Jaroslav Seifert, 83, was little known outside his homeland. For Czechs, it was a recognition that was overdue: he has long been revered for his insistence on artistic freedom. Even during the bleak days after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces, Seifert spoke out forcefully against the policies of the new Soviet-installed regime. For the next decade his writings were repressed, although his poetry is essentially unpolitical. Communist authorities finally relented when they realized that Seifert's poems were circulating widely...
MIAMI--About 125,000 Cubans who fled their homeland in the 1980 "freedom flotilla" boatlift can apply for U.S. residency beginning today, and officials say they may eventually bring in more than 300,000 relatives who were left behind...