Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the deaths occurred during two fusillades by police. The worst confrontation took place on a soccer field in the nominally independent Bophuthatswana homeland, north of Pretoria, where more than 5,000 people had gathered to protest the arrest and detention of local youths. Local police claimed that when they ordered the crowd to disperse, the demonstrators retaliated by pelting them with stones and Molotov cocktails. Panicky officers opened fire, and in the melee that followed, eleven protesters were killed, 100 wounded and as many as 2,000 arrested...
...battle to bring Marcos to justice--and his millions back to his homeland --is fraught with difficulties. For one thing, the Philippines does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S. For another, said Jovito Salonga, chairman of the Commission on Good Government, it will not be easy to disentangle the "layers of corporations" and the maze of intermediaries that Marcos used as a front. "Not once do you find the name of Marcos on any of the New York papers," said Salonga in a conversation with TIME editors in New York. "He's a very clever lawyer." The chase...
...returns to the inexpungible memories of World War II, this time from the point of view of collaborators in the murder of Jews. His central characters are the Kabbelskis, a family of politically active Belorussians who make common cause with the Germans in an effort to secure an autonomous homeland for their people. They are motivated less by anti-Semitism than by the rueful lessons of a millennium of conquests from east and west. Banding together with other helpless minorities seems to offer no chance of gaining power. But connivance may. Stanislaw Kabbelski, a local police chief and, later, minister...
...China. His duplicity earned him at least $300,000, and though he gambled much of it away, he had parlayed his take into real estate and other investments worth $700,000. Throughout his four-day trial, Chin insisted that he had only intended to improve relations between his homeland and his adopted country. Nevertheless, he became the first American to be convicted of spying for China, and faced life in prison...
Hussein said the PLO chief promised last August to approve the resolutions. In the end, however, Arafat restated his organization's traditional position that they were unacceptable because they do not mention the Palestinians' right to self-determination--in effect, a homeland...