Word: homeland
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...public office [May 19]. Surely Pope John Paul II, who spoke to millions of Poles of the "Church of Silence" and who knelt in prayer at Auschwitz, cannot be unappreciative of a priest's part in politics. Or are we to believe that the return to his homeland last June was only a sentimental journey...
...this country, it will be too late for the thousands of students who have already been forced to leave. Many voice doubt that Carter will reverse his decision in an election year, and, if he does not, Nifendereski and the many students like him may be returning to their homeland sooner than they thought...
...nothing that might interfere with the Camp David peace process. As a group the Western Europeans are not prepared to remain inactive until after the U.S. elections. Some, including British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, favor an immediate thrust toward a U.N. resolution recognizing the right of Palestinians to a homeland in return for acceptance by the Palestine Liberation Organization and all the Arab states of Israel's right to exist within secure frontiers. Says a ranking British diplomat: "I don't think we're going to let this one die a natural death. We really do believe...
...exile. Born into a moderately wealthy family in Warsaw, he was taken to Canada at the age often when his diplomat father was posted to Montreal before World War II. When the Soviets installed a Communist government in Poland after the war, the family was cut off from its homeland for good. Says one Columbia professor: "Brzezinski thinks like a Pole. With hundreds of years of Polish history behind him, he is pathologically opposed to Russia and its modern-day successor, the U.S.S.R." Recently a ranking Soviet official summed up Brzezinski as follows: "Once a Pole, always a Pole...
...MacGregor venturing into the quagmire of Britain's aged, failing, government-controlled heavy manufacturing industries? Despite his new nationality, he has maintained close ties to his homeland as the owner of a Scottish country home, where he frequently vacations. He also says that he has an "emotional attachment" to the steel industry, where he received early training. And as one associate observed, "If he does well, he could get the reward of rewards and be knighted." As an American citizen, he can receive only an honorary dubbing. And before any future laurels, MacGregor will have some difficult work...