Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simplify it. The gates should be opened wide for anyone who wants to leave forever, with the exception of the few connected with security work. It is humiliating to hold people by force. You can't call those who leave enemies. And if they haven't insulted the homeland in any way, they should be able to come back to visit or for good. Why shouldn't all citizens of the U.S.S.R. be given a foreign-travel passport good for, say, three years with the right to travel on business, for tourism, or to visit relatives...
...cost is already high. "Tehran has become a city of misery," says a middle-class exile who just returned to Europe after five months in her homeland. "The wealthy get along because they can buy things on the black market. I don't know how the poor manage." Prices of staples like butter and eggs are rising as much as 15% a week, she reports, if they are available at all. Civil service pay is three to four months in arrears. For a while, Iran Air, the national carrier, accepted only U.S. dollars in payment for tickets because Tehran needed...
...nothing but a terrorist organization. Fortunately, Americans are becoming more aware of the hollowness behind such accusations in light of Israel's violent responses to the current uprising. At least 123 Palestinians have been shot, beaten or tear gassed to death. Four Palestinians have been deported from their homeland, thousands of others arrested without charge. Telephone lines, electricity and even food have been denied to various Arab villages. And in one of the most recent events, the Israeli occupation forces blew up the homes of more than a dozen Arab families in response to the alleged stoning of a young...
...hand, we are intensely attached to the Jewish homeland, and rightly so. Our history is a history of persecution, culminating in the Nazi Holocaust. During the Holocaust Jews were led like sheep to slaughter, with no outcry from any nation, and--with the notable exception of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising--with little resistance. This calamity convinced many Jews that a homeland was necessary to insure our survival in a hostile world...
...still very much alive in Dharmsala, a former British hill station 250 miles north of New Delhi. Here, attended by a State Oracle, a rainmaking lama, various medicine men, astrologers and a four- man Cabinet, the Dalai Lama, 52, incarnates all the beliefs and hopes of his imperiled homeland, much as he has done since first ascending the Lion Throne in Lhasa at age four...