Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marching to the beat of the traditional social and cultural mores of the homeland, they are thrust into a society that pulses with an entirely different thythm. In this conflict of cultures the Portuguese have few options for dealing with their ethnic identity crisis...
...Your article on Solzhenitsyn [Feb. 25] failed to explain the significance of why the Soviets chose to deport him via the Federal Republic of Germany: by doing so it would be "returning the traitor to his ideological homeland...
...does Syria view the talk of a compromise that would set up an autonomous, demilitarized Palestinian homeland confined to the West Bank and Gaza? " There are several ideas around. That is one of them...
...tragedy [Feb. 25]. Once again the government of the Soviet Union has succeeded in its tyranny. They gave a man his freedom and placed chains on his soul; Solzhenitsyn is above all else a Russian. To take citizenship from such a man and banish him by force from the homeland he so dearly loves is the crudest blow of all. Those spiritual beggars whose greatest fear is truth, however, should know that such a man will not be silenced so easily...
...Vinh Long '64, a Vietnamese who works with the Vietnamese Studies Project at Harvard's East Asian Research Center, has taken up this neglected area. Before the Revolution is a remarkable and insightful book which draws upon many Vietnamese and French sources and Long's own experience in his homeland to depict the agonizing destruction of rural Vietnam. The book is divided into two parts: in the first, Long painstakingly molds reams of statistics into a moving but never heavy-handed description of the French transformation of rural Vietnam. In Part II, he presents his own translations of articles...