Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eliminate this obstacle, Rumania's U.N. delegation-with Arab backing-will propose a resolution in the General Assembly calling for a Palestinian homeland. Kaddoumi stressed repeatedly to Kroon that the resolution would not "modify or replace" Resolution 242. Asked if the P.L.O. demand for an independent Palestinian state meant all of Israel, Kaddoumi replied: "No, a portion. We would settle for the West Bank and Gaza." The Israelis, however, have made it clear that they will not surrender any occupied territory to the P.L.O...
...almost no hope of finding a job. It makes no difference if the pass was simply forgotten while going to the corner store for cigarettes or to visit friends. Africans who have lived in the city all their lives may be deported to starve in a Bantustan, a "homeland" they have never seen. Over a thousand people are prosecuted every day under the pass laws...
...spear-carrying tribesmen of Papua New Guinea-homeland of the cargo cults and of islanders who once regarded L.B.J. as a demigod-have a new Western hero to worship. No, not the Fonz or Jimmy Carter, but the masked comic-strip marvel who lives in the Skull Cave of Bangalla-namely, the Phantom...
...positions that Midge Costanza, presidential assistant and after-hours shortstop, does not play. Of the seven senior staff members at the White House, she serves as Carter's sole woman, Northerner, liberal activist and ethnic (if "ethnic" is defined as one with strong ties to a family homeland). She is an all-purpose outsider on an otherwise all-Georgia team...
...American Jews tended to agree on one point: the upset victory of Menachem Begin 's hard-line Likud coalition in Israel was bad news. Looking on the new Premier as a superhawk, they generally feared that his intransigence over Israel's borders and Palestinian demands for a homeland might bring on a break with Washington and a fifth war with the Arabs. Since Begin took office, however, there has been a remarkable change in opinion. Most American Jews now seem to admire him as a tough-minded patriot and support his government. What caused the change...