Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond their sense of kinship and yearning for a homeland that many have never even seen, the Palestinians are divided as to methods and short-term goals. With unhappy accuracy, one member of a militant commando organization says, "We don't even agree on exactly how much territory we must have or what methods we must use to gain that territory." Despite this surface disunity, the Palestinians, as the massacre at Ma'alot too well demonstrated, are a potent force that must be dealt with if peace is to come to the Middle East...
...Karefa-Smart continues to look toward his homeland, writing to friends there, sure that he must return, determined that he will. But he says he is afraid that should he return people might say, "Ah, Karefa-Smart is back. Perhaps better days are at hand." And the political turmoil will begin again...
...should be 5 ft. 10 in. in her zori. But American Soprano Anna Moffo went on to make a dazzling operatic debut, and since then Cio-Cio-San has been one of her favorite parts. Last week Anna had a chance to restudy the role in Butterfly's homeland. On her first visit to Japan, she wasted no time becoming acclimatized. To the delight of the tourists, she tripped through Tokyo's Chinzanso Gardens in a silk kimono, white makeup and the elaborate coiffure of a geisha. After which Anna, who a couple of years ago was advocating...
...with propaganda over mainland China during the Cultural Revolution, the training of the Dalai Lama's mountaineer troops when they were driven out of Tibet in 1959 by the Chinese Communists. But often the book adds fresh detail. For example, in one of their periodic raids on their homeland, the hardy Tibetans helped resolve a debate that had been going on in CIA headquarters in Washington: they captured documents showing that Mao Tse-tung's Great Leap Forward had been a flop...
...imprisonment, denial of political liberties, denial of life itself, or forced retention in a country against one's will. The right to leave an oppressive or repressive society has always been regarded--and rightly so--as a more fundamental human liberty than the right to return to one's homeland. Every document of liberty that I know of protects the right to leave--to be free from oppression; some also protect the right to remain or return, but none rank it as highly. After all, denial of the right to live in a particular place--even a symbolically important place...