Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Potentially more effective are FAA-sponsored public service announcements, broadcast in Spanish and English, that will warn Cubans of the long prison terms they face in their homeland for high-altitude high jinks. "We are trying to tell them if they want to get back to see Mommy and Daddy, the only time they'll be able to see them is on visiting days," said FAA Spokesman Jack Barker. Indeed, Cuba is uncompromisingly harsh on its airborne returnees, handing out sentences of up to 20 years for air piracy. "There are no air-conditioned cells with televisions in Cuban...
Hirohito's other favorite subject is his 1921 voyage to Europe, which made him the first member of the Japanese royal family to set foot outside his homeland. During that trip the 20-year-old Crown...
...necessary to build up trust-and to deepen trust." But the word solidarity kept cropping up. He told all those who worked that he brought his "solidarity and that of the church." A "hunger for righteousness," he explained, developed from "love of the homeland and from solidarity, that is to say from a sense of common good." Each time, the crowd broke in with wild applause, and hundreds of thousands of hands shot into the air in the now familiar V-for-victory sign...
...stands and above the crowd outside the stadium amid hundreds of national flags and papal banners. A delegation from the Ursus Tractor Factory, once a hotbed of union activity, made its presence known with a sign reading URSUS WORKERS GREET THE POPE WITH SOLIDARITY. Another poster proclaimed: GOD, HONOR, HOMELAND, WE PRAY FOR THE PRISONERS. Security guards spread throughout the stadium made no attempt to pull down the offending slogans. But officers in blue berets were armed with movie cameras, which they trained on the crowd in an attempt to record the faces of those who were holding illegal banners...
Before leaving Warsaw, John Paul paid unannounced visits to monuments commemorating his homeland's tragic ordeal in World War II. Accompanied only by Glemp, Franciszek Cardinal Macharski of Cracow and Vatican Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, the Pope visited the grim confines of Pawiak Prison, an infamous Nazi death house that has been preserved as a monument to thousands of Poles who were tortured and executed there. In a small square in front of the prison entrance, he knelt in silent prayer before a mulberry tree bearing dozens of painted metal plaques with the names of Pawiak victims...