Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wing politics. As they mingle in South Florida society, they become the sad spokesmen of old allegiances and lost causes. "Juan Carlos," an exile who once ran a match factory in Nicaragua, now commutes from Honduras to Miami in search of funds for his guerrilla forays into his old homeland. "What they are doing is putting on a road show that they hope someone will see and support," says a veteran political exile. "The Bay of Pigs was born in Miami, and they can't help feeling another Bay of Pigs is being prepared for Nicaragua...
...Marielito comes here, kill him. I will pay for everything." The older Cubans also find themselves in a cultural and political split with the younger ones, who tend to split with the younger ones, who tend to be less conservative and less committed to the homeland than their elders. While an older Cuban might listen for hours to a Spanish-language station blasting out anti-Castro messages, the younger one is more inclined to tune to a rock station...
...African shore, suicide remained as the only truly viable form of protest for the soon-to-be slaves; though starvation and drowning seem to be passive actions of giving up, Harding asserts that these moves occurred rather to defy the whites and return the Blacks spiritually to their homeland...
...were a citizen of West Germany, I too would certainly take part in the rally for peace [Oct. 19]. I would protest the deployment in my country of American nuclear weapons over which I had virtually no control, weapons that would make my homeland a prime target for the Soviets...
...once the driving force behind Mott the Hoople, released an album with half of Springsteen's band three years ago that was chock full of tunes and was played to win. You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic was melodic, introspective, and fun. Now Hunter has returned to his homeland, hooking up with half the Clash, and the production hand of Mick Jones has added the 'Clash sound' to Hunter's--laser gun synthesizers, up-front guitars with a wall of various whatevers always in the bacgrould. The results are mixed. Somethines Jones pulls up an average song, like...