Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...responses, however, have often seemed inadequate and at times rude. Speaking in January at a Jerusalem banquet for Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel, for example, Begin patronizingly referred to his guest as a "young man" who failed to understand the supposed parallel between the Palestinian desire for a homeland on the West Bank and the Nazis' claim to the Sudetenland. Later he brusquely dismissed the significance of Sadat's visit to Jerusalem by asserting: "We have existed, my dear Egyptian friends, without your recognition for 3,700 years. We never asked your President or government to recognize our right...
...argument by maintaining that events related in the Old Testament give Israel a historic claim to the West Bank. He even insists on calling the region by its Biblical names of Samaria and Judea. He declared to the Knesset: "We did not take strange land; we returned to our homeland. The tie between our nation and this land is eternal...
With Remeshkova's admonition to Sergei ("Wherever you go, do not forget your homeland,") ringing in their ears, the newlyweds made their way down a red carpet, accompanied by the recorded sounds of church bells, to their honeymoon car, a cream-colored Volga sedan. Christina, who was wearing a violet print dress, nearly stumbled before getting into the Volga, which Sergei had trouble starting. Finally the couple managed to pull away to face their incongruous future...
...human rights. Shcharansky was simultaneously an advocate of the Jewish struggle for free emigration and of various ethnic groups that seek to reform Soviet society from the inside. (Jews are the only national group that has been allowed to emigrate abroad in substantial numbers, on the ground that their homeland is Israel.) Ginzburg was not only an active Helsinki committee member but also a champion of the Soviet Union's estimated 10,000 political prisoners. Pektus, a longtime Roman Catholic activist in his native Lithuania, represented both the religious and national aspirations of Russian-dominated minorities inside the U.S.S.R...
...fearful that a crackdown would prohibit further international competition, Navratilova defected to the U.S. It was an awesome step. For all her on-court panache and off-court sophistication, she was very young-and now she was quite alone. Navratilova probably can never return to her homeland, and Czech officials have refused to allow her parents to visit her in the West. (An appeal by her father, a factory economist, for permission to go to Wimbledon was turned down...