Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because all forms of gambling except horse racing are prohibited in the white apartheid portion of South Africa, Kerzner's casinos are springing up in the new black homeland states, which are nominally independent. His flagship is Sun City, a glittering $140 million oasis built in the homeland with the virtually unpronounceable name of Bophuthatswana. The state has a population of 1.4 million and an average annual income of less than $500 a year. The resort's slot machines, roulette wheels and befeathered chorus girls attract as many as 50,000 visitors a day, mostly well...
Unlike most of South Africa, homelands like Bophuthatswana allow blacks and whites to mingle openly. Still, South Africa is in such bad odor because of apartheid that Kerzner has to pay platinum-plated premiums to get American entertainers like Linda Ronstadt and Kenny Rogers to brave possible censure for having performed at Sun City. Two years ago, Kerzner paid Frank Sinatra $2 million for nine shows over seven days, charging up to $85 per seat. Although such prices create a kind of economic apartheid at the resort since most blacks cannot afford admission, Kerzner argues that Sun City is beneficial...
...ignited the war in Lebanon, trying to make Lebanon a substitute homeland for the Palestinians. But the Lebanese Christians fought against this plan, and they were alone in defending their ancestral homeland...
...Western intelligence agents, some of the groups are pro-Western, some are Communist. But all are pledged to similar objectives. Among them: to force Turkish acknowledgment of and to avenge the alleged 1915 massacre of more than 1 million Armenians; and to gain political autonomy over their lost homeland, a 57,000-sq.-mi. region located along Turkey's border with the Soviet Union. Turkey has long maintained that the Armenian claims are baseless...
...bloodshed was triggered by the incendiary actions of a small group of Tamil extremists who contend that their race, which accounts for 11% of the nation's 15 million people, should be granted a separate homeland in northern Sri Lanka. Over the past six years the secessionists have planted bombs, set government buildings ablaze and, according to the government, killed 73 Sinhalese in and around the Tamil-dominated northern city of Jaffna. Only two weeks ago, Tamil terrorists ambushed and slaughtered 13 Sinhalese soldiers...