Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS of Shatila and Sabra he in the midst of West Beirut, surrounded by a stadium, two hospitals and a post office. During normal times, living conditions for the several thousand refugees are grim yet not unbearable. Sustained by their dream of a Palestinian homeland the men, women and children make do without "luxuries" like running water, electricity and modern sanitation. They can ignore the wooden shacks and mud floors. And they can forget their status as a wandering people whose houses are not really homes...
...mishap became a tragedy when the refugees-- kicked out of their adopted country-- were told by their homeland that they were not welcome. The military government of Ghana-- which had sealed its borders to prevent smuggling-- refused at first to readmit the sudden influx of its own citizens. Ghana eventually did relent, setting up "transit camps" to record the masses. But the exodus is still a painful one, as many refugees are starving, and at least one person has already died...
...Eugene Sherry, a former Harvard-affiliated physician convicted of rape in 1981, was granted permission Monday to freely leave the United States and return to his homeland of New Zealand...
...Inevitably, as the Israeli population grows, Israel will extend to the new settlements and the new settlers the full protection of Israeli law. As a result, the West Bank need never be formally annexed by Israel. Indeed, as Begin has put it, "you don't annex your own homeland...
Meanwhile, the ongoing clashes between the Shonas and the Ndebeles have grown worse, especially within the new national army, which tried to meld both ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas into its ranks. Some 1,200 of Nkomo's onetime rebels have deserted the armed forces, returning to Matabeleland, homeland of the Ndebeles. The region has turned into an African version of the wild West, with former ZIPRA guerrillas roaming the countryside in small bands, murdering or kidnaping civilians, ripping up rail and power lines and robbing scores of people...