Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Count Dracula (Udo Kier) is a vegetarian, fussy about his daily diet, and dying for a heartening draught of blood from an unspoiled young woman. Anton, the count's assistant, insists on classifying young ladies of this type as "wirgins," in his Carpathian accent. The count's homeland being fresh out of them, Anton suggests moving to Italy, where the influence of "Holy Mother Church" promises countless young maidens...
...vicious hatred for the Jews as an aggressive and intelligent race. His superficialties with Palestinian sympathizers are based not upon any moral principle, but rather upon purely racist sentiment. For this reason it is imperative that those who conscientiously support the right of the Palestinian people to a homeland divorce themselves and their cause absolutely from those who oppose the State of Israel solely on the basis of racial prejudice. The former must see in the anti-Semite not an important ally, but rather a bigot who finds in the Palestinian cause a cheap way of expressing his hatred...
...were acquitted or cleared of the original charges. The other six wait in the federal jail, convinced that whether or not they were drug smugglers, they have been railroaded by Uncle Sam, who first helped overthrow the regime that tolerated them and then hijacked them out of their homeland. One federal agent concedes the difficulties involved. "There's so much money in narcotics that local law-enforcement people are corrupted very easily," he says. "People get away. Agents have to take care of things in their...
...P.L.O. will have to abandon its stated goal of a "democratic-secular state between the Jordan and the Sinai"--which is simply a codeword for the destruction of Israel and its replacement with another Arab state. Israel will have to abandon its claim that Palestinians already have a homeland in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. And Arab governments should support negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in which both sides recognize each other's right to exist. Each party should pledge not to engage in any actions against the other during these negotiations...
...were clearly worried about the precedent being set-a worry reinforced by the remarks of P.L.O. Leader Yasser Arafat to the General Assembly. Arafat prophesied South Africa-style ostracism for Israel. "Such is the inevitable fate of every racist country that adopts the law of the jungle, usurps the homeland of others...