Word: homeland
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...December 1978 the Vietnamese launched a massive invasion of Cambodia, by then renamed "Democratic Kampuchea." Cambodians welcomed the conquest of their homeland by their historical neighboring enemy, just as they'd embraced the Khmer Rouge only a few years earlier, Lien credits the Vietnamese with rescuing her from certain death: the flux and confusion accompanying the incursion allowed her and her brothers to escape one night across the reedy, mountainous border into Thailand. Behind in the camp they left a cavernous pit, which Lien had learned was to be a mass grave for the workers...
Crimson reporter Antony J. Blinken interviewed Filipino opposition leader Benigno Aquano in April 1982 during his two-year stint as a fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs Aquino was slain August 21, moments after returning to his homeland. Following are Blinken's reflections on that interview...
Aquino made it clear that he intended to return in the near future to his homeland. Although he said "Harvard is like a second home to me." Aquino stated several times that he felt both restless and a little useless because he was so far away from the center of his concerns. "My place is in the Philippines that is where I belong," he said, adding that "while my stay here has been invaluable for the time it has given me to think and talk with others. This is not the place I can do the most good...
...doomed flight, addressed a placard-waving rally of 750 people in Lafayette Square and later tried to deliver a letter of protest in person at the Soviet embassy; an embassy employee threw it away. Koreans staged demonstrations, some joined by local residents, in cities as distant from their homeland as Buenos Aires. In Paris, a crowd of 300, mostly Koreans, gathered near the Soviet embassy; some tried to charge police barricades...
...Belfast, Brian Moore has a special talent for pungent portraiture of those Irish men and women who are, as James Joyce put it, "outcast from life's feast": desperate spinsters, failed priests, drunken poets-and expatriates, like Moore himself. But as the distance between Moore and his homeland widened, he produced, under the pseudonyms Michael Bryan and Bernard Marrow, some lamentable whodunits. By way of apology he once explained: "I tried to write as an American...