Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-powered entertainer Ann-Margret, 40. Volvo is the Latin word for roll. Ann-Margret, on the other hand, increasingly stands for rock. If there were any doubt, the strawberry-blond performer from Valsjöbyn (pop. 150), Sweden, dispelled it last week when she returned to her homeland for her Swedish debut. Ann-Margret relied on a hip-grinding medley of contemporary rock favorites and old-fashioned Las Vegas showmanship, unpackaging an act containing seven male dancers, three back-up singers, a 26-piece orchestra and six costume changes. The singer also threw in some vintage hokum when...
Coach George Ford's connections in his homeland gave the team a $600-per person package deal, $300 of which will be footed by the fruits of the team's fundraising efforts...
...sympathizers in detention camps, clamped severe restrictions on personal liberty, and left at least ten dead and hundreds injured. The archbishops were well aware of that unrelieved bleakness. Indeed, they spent much of their week in the Vatican briefing the Polish-born Pontiff on the dim prospects for his homeland's future. As Glemp described it during an emotional sermon at Rome's Church of St. Stanislao: "Our fatherland ... is sick. Poles are overcome by anger. We are enraged one against the other." The church's role, said Glemp, is to contain that anger and channel...
...Kirghiz--long accustomed to tending their herds at altitudes over 10,000 feet--have found the climate in Pakistan particularly inhospitable, confronting diseases they never suffered in their homeland. Already, 160 people--mostly women and children--have died as a result of conditions to which they are unaccustomed, according to a Boston Globe reporter who has written about the Kirghiz. The remote land where the Kirghiz now live offers them no means to support themselves Forced to leave behind their animals when they made the trek into Pakistan, the tribesmen have no other skills beyond herding. And even if they...
...ready. We will not stop our struggle. We are not fascists. Our power is our arms. Kissinger caused this trouble. We are not Communists. Begin is a Nazi. We never intend to kill children. Till the last child we will struggle to regain our homeland." The colonel looks up. "Ah, Samer...