Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once again people must die because of the unsolved problems between Israelis and Palestinians. A majority of public opinion concedes that the Palestinians have a right to a homeland, but does it have to be the West Bank or even Israel? Does nobody remember that the kingdom of Jordan once was also a part of Britain's mandate of Palestine? The Palestinians should make peace with King Hussein and go back there...
...still making their regular pilgrimages to the U.S. of A., though most of the fascination with them now is over their gray hair, not their ingenuity. Still Life, the live travelog of the successful 1981 tour, is yet another in a series of tributes to the group's spiritual homeland. (See review below.) As always, the music bears a mixture of sentiments: raucous enthusiasm tempered by ironic self-knowledge. The Stones appreciated the distance between themselves and the songs they sang from the start: Mick Jagger was not the first Mannish Boy, after...
...action to determine the future of the Falkland Islands. The plan, says a top British official, is predicated "on total surrender of the Argentine forces on the Falklands." After a British triumph, reports TIME Correspondent Frank Melville, the captured Argentine troops would not immediately be repatriated to their homeland. They would be held as prisoners of war until the junta agreed in writing to a formal ceasefire, one that included air and naval units as well as ground forces. If necessary, Britain would move the Argentine prisoners to the United Kingdom until its demands were met. If the junta launched...
...wise, or even possible, for a Pope to visit a largely non-Roman Catholic country that is warring with a Catholic nation? And is it possible, or even wise, for a Pope to plan on a summer visit to his beloved homeland, which last week was the scene of new national unrest? Even as Pope John Paul II and his entourage were preparing for this week's pastoral tour of Fatima and other Portuguese cities, they were reassessing the risks and opportunities of the politically sensitive journey to England later this month and a possible pilgrimage to Poland...
...their countries, or if they can prove they are political dissidents. In an explanatory message to the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, the State Department argued that the U.S. does not have "an unlimited capacity to absorb all of those who depart their homeland in Indochina...