Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstration, marching for the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States, hoped to bring a massive group of Puerto Ricans to the United Nations building to demand immediate independence of their homeland, withdrawal of U. S. military forces and nuclear arms for the island, and freedom for the political prisoners involved in independence struggles. October 30 was chosen as the date of the march, commemorating the twentieth anniversary of one such struggle, in which 25 Puerto Ricans were killed, 37 were taken prisoner, and over a thousand were wounded by Americans forces...
...Sept. 28] that "Ideally the Palestinians . . . would like to turn the clock back to the'' days before the Balfour Declaration pledged the creation of a Jewish homeland...
...understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine." It will be seen that Mr. Balfour pledged nothing. Nor was he or the government of Great Britain in a position to pledge the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Palestine'' was never a British colony, territory or possession, though Britain later administered it in trust for its inhabitants under mandate from the League of Nations...
...your article [Sept. 21] you state that the Arabs were evicted from their ancient homeland. They were never evicted and this was never their ancient homeland. You mention further that they were driven into the squalid misery of refugee camps. They just picked up their squalid misery and moved it to another location...
Then the Nixons stopped in Ireland for a visit to their ancestors' homeland. As they headed back to Washington, the inevitable question arose about presidential excursions abroad: What was accomplished? In terms of the immediate problems of war and peace, the answer this time is: Very little. The trip had not been set up to settle major problems...