Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author of The Prophet could not have provided a more fitting epithet for his own tortured homeland. In Lebanon, moreover, even the fragments have - fragments. The country is split not just between Christians and Muslims. The Christian community is composed of both Maronites and Greek Orthodox; the Muslim one is made up of Sunnis, Shi'ites and Druze. In the chaotic redistribution of power now taking place, the most serious challenge has come from Lebanon's Shi'ites, who constitute some 40% of the population but have long been relegated to second-class citizenship. In the process of winning...
...more than two years, guerrillas demanding an independent homeland for the 3 million Tamil minority in Sri Lanka (pop. 16 million) have been fighting an increasingly bloody civil war against President Junius Jayawardene's government. Last week there were signs that both sides were willing to scale down the conflict, which has claimed several hundred lives so far this year. In Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, National Security Minister Lalith Athulathmudali announced that the five largest Tamil guerrilla groups, known as the Tamil Tigers, had agreed to a "cessation of all hostile acts...
...State Department spokesman announce that the body was at last on its way to a U.S. air base in Spain for identification. Used first as proof of the hijackers' resolve, the stranded corpse had thus become a symbol of the obstacles and divisions that afflict the terrorists' homeland...
...doctor's homeland, meanwhile, where Federal Prosecutor Hans Eberhard Klein had nearly despaired of ever getting cooperation from the close-mouthed Mengele family, Rolf Mengele's unexpected statement about his father's fate stirred worldwide interest. It also revealed the eccentric ways of the secrecy-loving clan. As reporters gathered outside the office of Munich Architect Jens Hackenjos, young Mengele's stepbrother, Hackenjos sent his wife Sabine, accompanied by Herbert Bauermeister, a free-lance journalist, to inform newspeople that her husband had already handed over Rolf's statement to German wire-service agencies. At his own apartment Hackenjos opened...
...week's death list was evidence of the growing struggle between the island's 2.6 million Tamils and its 11 million Sinhalese. Over the past two years Tamil guerrillas have stepped up their attacks on troops in an effort to force the government into granting them an independent homeland. The Tamils claim that in the 37 years since Sri Lanka achieved independence from Britain, their political rights have been gradually eroded by the Sinhalese majority. Last week's Tamil rampage through Anuradhapura was the guerrillas' first major attack on unarmed civilians...