Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Americans travel abroad, they take with them a cherished link with their homeland: their passport. Soon, however, even that symbol of citizenship will not be all-American. The Government Printing Office disclosed last week that when it sought bids for a new machine to produce passports, only two firms responded. One was Japanese, the other West German. The winner: Uno Seisakusho Co. Ltd., whose $1 million machine will begin churning out up to 4,200 passports an hour in Washington this week. Yoi goryoko o. Or, as an American might say, "Have a nice trip...
...nuclear weapons. The independent deterrents of Britain and France by definition cannot function as an American trip wire, and U.S.-based strategic weapons might sit out a war in Europe. U.S. short-range and battlefield weapons might blunt a Soviet blitzkrieg but cannot carry the war to the Soviet homeland. In the jargon of nukespeak, some Europe-based, intermediate-range American weapons are necessary to serve the cause of "coupling" between the U.S. and its allies...
...Tamils, who are a minority in this island nation, have been fighting for four years for a separate homeland...
...Tamil rebels are battling to establish an independent homeland in the island's northern and eastern provinces, where most of the Tamils live. President Junius R. Jayewardene's government has proposed provincial councils to give greater autonomy to the north and east, but refuses to consider an independent Tamil nation...
...other? Such an argument would account for Walzer often slipping into a language of universal human rights. But it would explain equally well why Walzer finds in textual criticism his model for social criticism. Has not the community of which he is a part survived by finding a homeland in religious texts...