Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rally in Boston was preceded by an earlier gathering of 1500 demonstrators on the Cambridge Common. Edgar Bottome, professor of government at Boston University, told the demonstrators that "the only way to end the war and American imperialism is to bring about drastic change in the imperial homeland or witness the destruction of the imperial homeland...
...Zionism with newspaper articles, resolutions, petitions and mass meetings. Despite a tradition of Russian anti-Semitism dating from the days of the czars, Moscow insists that the drive is not directed at the country's loyal Jews but only at the Zionists -those who believe in a separate homeland in Palestine for all Jews. The cunning thing about the campaign is that Moscow has pressured Russia's Jews into conducting it themselves. A few Jews, however, have refused to go along with the official line. Last week they were circulating audacious letters challenging the government campaign...
...Homeland. The anti-Zionist drive follows some characteristic Soviet patterns. There was a letter to Tass from a Jewish doctor in Uzbekistan: "We have never had and never will have anything in common with Zionists. We have only one homeland: the Soviet Union." Meetings of Jews were held in factories and on farms to proclaim their satisfaction with life in the Soviet Union. A group of rabbis condemned Zionists as evil men "who every day sow death and destruction on the occupied Arab lands...
...would have seen a fat, nude 75-year-old Swede standing on his head. Shocking? Not a bit, for over the past four years the residents of this tiny West African nation have shrugged off the sight of Swedes-nude or clothed -who each winter desert their frosty homeland for a gambol on Gambia's beautiful white sand beaches. As a travel brochure puts it: "If you like, you can swim nude alone-so huge are the beaches and so few are the tourists...
...from an ancient land to modern Israel in Two Tales. A virtual unknown in the West until 1966, when he won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he was long a cultural hero to his countrymen, a man who understood the stateless Jew's anguish and longing for a homeland. "Man," Agnon once wrote, "is defined as a being that moves...