Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EUROPE. The grand prize. Gorbachev's Westpolitik -- the INF treaty, his subtle wooing of the West Europeans with the notion of a "common European homeland," his gestures toward disarmament that have already propelled him in European public opinion polls higher than the President of the U.S. -- is calculated to advance the most important Soviet geopolitical objective of all, the detachment of Western Europe from America. The road to the breakup of the U.S.-European alliance is the denuclearization, leading to the neutralization, of Europe. This is a traditional Soviet objective. But ironically it may prove necessary for the success...
...comment in Hussein's speech last week was aimed directly at Israeli hawks. "Jordan is not Palestine," the King noted. Many Israeli rightists, hardened by the turmoil of the intifadeh, have come to support the view promoted by former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon that Jordan should be the Palestinian homeland and that the West Bank should be annexed by Israel. If large numbers of Palestinians from the West Bank were forced into Jordan, where the population is already almost two-thirds Palestinian, Sharon's vision might become Hussein's reality...
...miles to go before Hispanic-Hollywood assimilation is complete. Begin with the wondrous and confounding diversity of Latin cultures. "Cubans," says Julia, "are as different from Mexicans as French are from Italians." Menendez, Cuban-born, catalogs the differences: "First-generation Mexican Americans are still emotionally connected to their homeland. They want movies that remind them of home. But Cubans don't identify with the underclass. Would you, if you owned Miami...
...most of the 36 seats taken by white, Asian and "colored" officials who are already part of the structure of apartheid. Most prominent blacks have sworn not to sit in the new assembly, which some have called a toy telephone. Said Mangosuthu Buthelezi, chief minister of the KwaZulu black homeland: "Black leaders have long passed the point in history where they can be used as rubber stamps for the real intentions of the country's white political leadership...
Awad was born in East Jerusalem, the part of the city annexed by Israel from Jordan after the 1967 war. He moved to the U.S. in 1970, became a U.S. citizen in 1978, and in 1985 returned to his homeland to establish his center. Awad's current troubles with Israeli officialdom began in the spring of 1987, when he sought to renew the residency permit he had been issued in 1967. The authorities rejected his application and ordered him to leave the country when his tourist visa expired in November. He refused to go, arguing, with strong support from...