Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Witness their constituents in Southie. Racism pervades the life. The-Irish endured it from Yankees for decades after they fled the potato famine in their homeland, and by the 1950s, they had finally bought into the pie just enough to suspect that the new wave of blacks aimed to steal it from them. South Bostonians, as a community, furthermore, feel tight, proud, distinctively Irish and obsessively xenophobic. The sentiments, as The New York Times correspondent John Kifner says, added to the backlash when Judge Garrity placed South Boston High School in court "receivership"--under court jurisdiction--last January. Most...
Most defectors, having taken the emotion-wrenching step of leaving their homeland, are confused or, as one intelligence expert puts it, "kooky," when they arrive at their destinations. Not Belenko. After getting out of the plane and firing the. warning shot, he willingly surrendered to Japanese police, who placed him in custody for having violated Japanese immigration procedures and for possession of illegal weapons. Those charges were only legal ruses to keep Lieut. Belenko safely in Japanese hands...
...Syria, and such oil-rich nations as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait supporting the region's moderates, Israel is no longer facing a solid wall of active Arab belligerency. The greatest losers in the situation, again, are the Palestinian guerrillas, whose hope of leading the way to a restored homeland seems feebler with every passing...
Today the 5 million Zulus are still the largest tribe in South Africa. Half live and farm in the fertile hills and valleys of KwaZulu, the designated "homeland" that forms a patchwork quilt of territory from the Mozambique border in the north to southern Natal and the Transkei in the south. There they live much in the tribal style of old, in beehive-shaped mud and thatch huts, sharing the kraal with their cattle. The other half work in the "white man's" South Africa, living in bedroom ghettos like Soweto. They are frequently favored for positions of trust...
They maintain regular contacts with "the old country" and their relatives. They were those who actively supported Yugoslavia during the second World War and helped in the postwar reconstruction of the devastated old homeland...