Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Polish specialists have said that Gan. Wojciech Jaruzelski's regime is probably eager to see the 39-year-old electrician emigrate from his homeland, thus weakening his still-powerful influence on Polish workers...
...Soviet intention was to cut off the head of Polish nationalism," says a top aide to John Paul. The last straw may have come in the summer of 1980, when the Pope sent a message to the Soviets threatening to return to Poland if the Soviets invaded his homeland. Vatican officials believe that Moscow feared not only the Pope's growing role as the symbolic leader of Poland, but stepped-up Catholic Church activities in the Baltic states and the Ukraine. And the target himself? John Paul too believes that the Soviet Union ordered him to be killed. Says...
...months ago, Mugabe's government sent an armed force led by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade into Matabeleland, the Ndebele homeland in the southwestern part of the country, to crush a rising tide of resistance and lawlessness. The soldiers, most of whom are Shona tribesmen, killed hundreds of Ndebele civilians. Two weeks ago, the Fifth Brigade moved into the suburbs of Bulawayo, the main city in Matabeleland, and conducted house-to-house searches for dissidents. The soldiers even invaded Nkomo's home, where they killed an employee and ransacked the property. That night Nkomo, who had gone...
...Charlie), an English actress whose haphazardly radical political involvements qualify her (á la Vanessa Redgrave) for the role Kurtz wants her to play. She is the rebellious middle-class type who could very well be swept away by a sensual young Palestinian and his burning desire to regain his homeland. Kurtz assigns Becker, an aging but still handsome Israeli war hero, to recruit Charlie and then teach her how to act in "the theater of deeds." A fictitious love affair must be fabricated between Charlie and the younger brother, whom the Israelis have captured. When he is killed...
...following day, at a breakfast meeting with a group of reporters, Reagan spoke of the need of the Palestinians for "something in the nature of a homeland," though he added quickly, "on the other hand, no one has ever advocated creating a nation." Apparently, Reagan was merely trying to describe the ambiguous nature of the Palestinian "entity" on the West Bank and Gaza Strip that is envisioned in his Sept. 1 peace plan. The problem was that the word homeland, like so many other bits of language concerning the Middle East, has become such a buzzword that it automatically invites...