Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ironic that this attitude should be taken by the leaders of a people who, only 30 years ago, were pleading for the "right" to a homeland of their own. Why is not the right of the Palestinians as valid as was the right of the Israelis in 1945? George P. Highland Atascadero, Calif...
...Euskadi ta Askatasuna, or Basque homeland and liberty). A separatist movement in the four Basque provinces of northern Spain. Generally Marxistoriented, ETA seeks total independence for the provinces (and links with Basque areas of France) and rejects government offers of regional autonomy. Estimated active membership: 60 to 120, with thousands of supporters in the northern provinces of Spain. Its archcrime: the 1973 bombing murder of Vice Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, then Franco's Premier...
Palestinian Homeland A geographic and political (if not necessarily fully sovereign) state for the Palestinians...
...Israeli perception is basically correct. Ever since his Clinton, Mass., call last March for a Palestinian "homeland," Jimmy Carter has become more and more convinced that the Palestinian issue is, as President Hafez Assad of Syria calls it, "the mother question" in the Middle East...
...isolated from the leftist students and workers in the cities who might have helped if they could. Bolivia is bordered by five countries, and Che hoped it would be the spark that would ignite the tinderboxes of its neighbors: Chile, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, and most important, Che's Argentine homeland. He also hoped to tie up the United States, at the time busily murdering Vietnamese. U.S. intervention in Bolivia would almost have certainly brought down U.S-supported dictatorships in other South American countries. Che wrote...