Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestinians, Poet Mahmoud Darweesh once wrote, are a people who have "no homeland, no flag and no address." But they do have a strong sense of nationhood. Even children who have never been there talk vividly about life in the Old City of Jerusalem or the beauty of Mount Carmel and the orange groves of Jaffa. In part, the Palestinians' collective memory of homeland and the dream of return are kept alive by a large body of nostalgic Arabic poetry, written by angry young lyricists who know both the harshness of Israeli prisons and the despair of life...
Tsitsos maintains a fondness for his homeland. "In Greece, the people are much more relaxed than here," he says. "You can feel this heart opening up, and giving. Happiness is just flowing from one person to another. When someone comes to a house, they're made to feel like kings...
Among the 650,000 Cubans who have immigrated to the U.S. since Fidel Castro came to power in Havana 15 years ago, the dream for many years was of a post-Castro return to the island homeland. The Cuban exiles still bristle at any sign of a coming rapprochement between the two countries, and were angry about last week's visit to Cuba by U.S. Senators Jacob Javits and Claiborne Pell (see THE WORLD). Miami Extra, a Florida-based Cuban newspaper, scorned the Senators as "tourists of socialism" and ran a cartoon showing the two emerging, battered and bloodied...
PALESTINIAN IDENTITY. It is the Palestinian miracle. The problem for us has never been borders or regime or land, but a holy homeland. Moslem and Christian pilgrims come from far away to see the land to which they are spiritually attached. We are the descendants of Christ, and we assume that we must be much more attached to this country than the pilgrims...
...Arum. For this fight, Ali did more than simply agree to appear. He helped arrange the deal. Last February Ali met Zaïre's President, Mobutu Sese Seko, while both were visiting Kuwait. Mobutu proposed the idea of bringing the greatest black American fighters to their ancestral homeland for a championship match. He and Ali parted in agreement that Zaïre should make a bid to have what was then only a potential Foreman-Ali fight...