Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month itinerary that only a journalist or a masochist could love. In August 1979, it was off to Iran, a nation still rejoicing in the fall of the Shah, still tumultuous under the evolving rule of Khomeini. Then to Pakistan, the troubled state founded in 1947 as a homeland for Indian Muslims and still brooding over the loss of 15% of its land and more than half of its people in the early 1970s, when Bangladesh was born. From there, he traveled to Malaysia and Indonesia, both former European colonies, both nominally Islamic and both feeling the impact...
...been more friendly--except, of course, for the period which has spanned most of his life. That period, though, Yao is willing to dismiss: "an unfortunate episode," he calls it, but one which he hopes will not impede future friendly relations between the U.S. and his homeland...
...unity. Even so, the question of developing a consistent political role for the church could not be avoided. The most forceful call for change came from South African Colored Dutch Reformed Minister Allan Boesak. After condemning repressive regimes with no respect for human rights, he singled out his homeland, where oppression is "carried out by Christians in the name of Christ...
...sanctuary across the Pyrenees in France. The organization's wildly unrealistic goal of achieving independence is losing support among a once sympathetic populace. Yet, paradoxically, even as its powers seem to wane, the group remains an ominous threat. The Basque terrorists who form the Euzkadi ta Askatasuna (Basque Homeland and Liberty), or ETA, still have the potential to cause the overthrow of Spain's fragile, 31-month-old democracy...
...Noting the situation created by the Camp David agreements, they reaffirm the right to existence and security of Israel and of all the states of the region as well as the right of the Palestinian people to a homeland...