Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They announce the national anthem of the challenger's homeland. Everyone is shouting "Mahvin! Mahvin!" You can't hear the anthem...
Three cheers for Lech Walesa and the leaders of Solidarity in Poland [Dec. 29]. With the Soviets threatening their homeland more and more each day, they have stood calmly defiant in support of their ideals and their legitimate demands for a free union system. Their message to Moscow is not only making the Soviets squirm, but is also informing anticapitalist idealists right here in the U.S. that Communism is not working...
...past seven months, Cuban Refugee Pedro Rodriguez, 48, has been in Leavenworth, Kans., in a maximum-security federal prison. He was shipped there in June soon after admitting to immigration officials that he had a record of four convictions in his homeland (two suitcase thefts that he maintained were necessary "to clothe my family," attempted burglary and a prison escape). Rodriguez was waiting at Leavenworth while Washington tried to persuade Havana to reclaim him and about 1,800 other "undesirables." So far, the Cuban government has demurred. Since Rodriguez was never officially admitted to the U.S., he is considered...
...Pretoria, the Ciskei vote was a way of trying to show that the whole homelands strategy was worth salvaging, despite a barrage of doubts about it even by the Afrikaner establishment. For months South African editorials have de cried the lack of progress toward making the black territories self-sufficient. Said the pro-government Johannesburg Citi zen: "It doesn't take a genius to know that homeland development has failed...
Prime Minister P.W. Botha has publicly admitted the economic failures in the new black states, and he has apparently given up the notion that the homelands can soon be made truly independent. Consequently, the government is drawing up plans for eight "economic development areas" along the borders between South Africa and the homelands. Pretoria has already established a $133 million fund to foster small businesses in these zones. On paper at least, homeland officials are to share in the decisions that will determine the speed and direction of development...