Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...according to his translator, and establish what he called "an unshakable basis for friendship and mutual trust." A somewhat more concrete result of the meeting was issued when the talks concluded. In a 15-point joint communique, Japan agreed in principle to undertake additional military functions in defending its homeland and the Far East region. For its part, the U.S. agreed to ease the transfer of nuclear technology and materials long sought by Japan's energy industry...
...true that a Harvard education would benefit the lucky South African who won a Biko scholarship. But it is also true that if those same Blacks ever tried to return to their homeland, the apartheid system would effectively prevent them from using their education to help their fellow Black South Africans...
...city. They are easy touches for any groups that offer them companionship and forgiveness for the site of their births: "One of the South's inadequacies, Emily had decided, was to instill in its children the ability to listen politely while people dumped on their homeland." Donny eventually falls in with a black power cadre in Harlem. Raymond and Emily join a group of civil rights activists who dress in "sharecropper disguises." Raymond gets beaten up on a voter-registration drive in, of all places, Tennessee, and later decides that the South's bondage is caused...
Only when they get to their "real homeland" of Africa will Blacks be able to achieve any real political power, Tumah said. "We can say to General Motors, if you don't treat your Black workers better, we're not going to give you any chrome to make your cars," he added...
Saudi leaders recognize that Egypt could ultimately prove to be a crucial military ally in fending off Soviet advances in the gulf. The Egyptians, they realize, would also be indispensable to any comprehensive Middle East peace settlement that also provided a homeland for the 4.3 million Palestianians scattered throughout the Middle East. The Saudis regard the Palestinian problem as the principal threat to stability in the region, and it is hardly lost on the Saudi leadership that there are an estimated Palestinians in their own country, many of them in highly skilled and influential jobs. Riyadh lately has also called...