Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nominally independent homelands -- Transkei, Venda, Bophuthatswana and Ciskei -- are collectively known in South Africa as the TVBC states. Their sovereignty is recognized by no one apart from South Africa and other homeland ; states. That limited diplomatic visibility, however, has not prevented some of them from succumbing to banana-republic political and financial excesses on a world-class scale -- including the imposition of one-party rule, nepotism, official corruption and wildly extravagant spending...
...little less concord on some political issues. Rabbi Mordecai Waxman, speaking for the Jewish attendees, urged once again that "full and formal diplomatic relation relations be established soon between the Vatican and the state of Israel." John Paul replied that the "Jewish people . . . have a right to a homeland, as does any civil nation." But the same principle "also applies to the Palestinian people, so many of whom remain homeless and refugees...
...have another chance to look into the mirror next week. Fifty-two years after he left Neunkirchen, now part of West Germany, and twelve years after he became the bland but politically nimble leader of Communist East Germany, Honecker is scheduled to make a five-day visit to his homeland. His host will be West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and a lot more than nostalgia will be in the air. Postponed earlier as a result of tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, the trip will mark the first time an East German party leader has set foot...
...Germans, who are increasingly able to travel, trade and exchange cultural assets across their border. Honecker may have spoken for both leaders a few years ago when, at a meeting with West German parliamentarians, he plaintively asked, "Must we do everything through our big brothers?" As Honecker revisits his homeland next week, many Germans will be hoping that the answer is no, not everything...
...novelist denies he is seeking political office. "I'm a writer and nothing more," he says. "If this wretched law were suspended in the Senate, I would go back to my study." Few take his demurrals seriously. Vargas Llosa has himself brooded over his obsession with his homeland. "For me," he has said, "Peru is a kind of incurable disease...