Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born into a noble landowning family in Kurow, he rose to the top ranks of a proletarian dictatorship. Forcibly deported to the Soviet Union after Stalin and Hitler partitioned his homeland in 1939, he later became one of Moscow's staunchest advocates, and according to some accounts took a Soviet wife. Alternately called a moderate and a hard-liner by Western observers, he seems to be above all a survivor. To many, that is precisely what Poland needs at this hour...
...Laos. Dr. David Paulson of the St. Paul health department does not buy that notion: "Nerve gas usually kills instantaneously and it does not discriminate between the sexes." Indeed there is no firm evidence that any of the victims had even been exposed to chemical agents in their homeland or that the North Vietnamese ever possessed any nerve...
These women will never forget the war, and it is the war that provides the Soviet regime with its greatest claim to legitimacy. While no one ever elected the Bolsheviks, they can at least claim that they successfully defended the "Mother Homeland" from the German fascists. The government has a great stake in perpetuating the war's memory. War memorials are ubiquitous. In every major city, scouts guard tombs of unknown soldiers with Kalashnikov assault rifles. At each change of the guard four more 14-year-olds goose-step out to symbolically protect the "Mother Homeland" from another invasion...
...than the cowardly dregs of humanity who ended his life in this barbaric way." Still, the violence seemed to signal a new round of tit-for-tat murders. Last week the Ulster Defense Association, a Protestant paramilitary organization, warned Protestants to fight "this conspiracy to destroy our homeland...
...refugees the sorrow of exile is the crudest pain of all. When they finally arrive at their longed-for destination, there comes a time for tears. Like travelers shipwrecked on an alien island, they weep over their lost homeland, their abandoned relatives and friends...