Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East Germans have begun to echo Moscow in accusing West Germany of "re-vanchism," the desire to restore the boundaries that existed before World War II. In Leipzig, students returning for the first day of school were asked to display pictures that they had drawn of tanks protecting their homeland from the West. Stories began to spread that Honecker would have to endure insults and would be pelted with eggs and tomatoes if he made the trip...
Among those individuals are 18 athletes from nine countries (Britain, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya and the U.S.) whom TIME has photographed against one of their homeland's famous symbols or landmarks. This 14-page photo essay, with captions by Senior Writer Paul Gray, provides dazzling evidence of the artful eye of Photographer Neil Leifer, who also took the cover picture of U.S. Track and Field Star Carl Lewis at the Statue of Liberty. "Not only was this the best assignment I've ever had," says Leifer, "it was the best I've ever heard...
...nearly four years the Khmer Rouge tore through their homeland, smashing temples, slitting throats, nailing old women to the walls of their houses, beating babies to death against trees. By late 1978, when Viet Nam invaded Kampuchea, as many as 3 million of the country's 7 million people were dead. Yet those who survived reportedly had worse in store for them. In one episode, soldiers from neighboring Thailand pushed 826 Kampuchean refugees over a cliff; in another, they forced 43,000 to walk home in the dark down treacherous mountain paths surrounded by minefields...
...Soviets marched into Czechoslovakia, Josef Skvorecky marched out, heading for Canada. On the way, he ran across his countryman Milan Kundera in Paris. Brooding over the Nazi invasion of their homeland during World War II, the Soviet occupation of the moment and the possibility of exile, Kundera sighed, "There's been too much of everything. How much longer do you think we can last...
...playing at Harvard is Canada. Almost all the players come from the ranks of one of the continent's professional leagues and one of the continent's professional leagues and one of the players. Harvard student John Catliff, put his Harvard soccer career on the line to represent his homeland in the Olympics...