Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generate support for a neutral Cambodia, is also visiting refugee groups to see how they fare in a faraway land. His estimate: "We are grateful to the U.S., but those who are displaced more than anything would like to be able to return to their homeland...
...Defense Department, characteristically, calls the "All Volunteer Force" or AVF): its recruiting techniques don't fill manpower quotas, its recruits aren't smart enough to fight a modern war, and the kids it brings in from the inner cities are more interested in getting high than in defending their homeland...
...insular nation, we have come instinctively to define strategic weapons to mean weapons capable of inflicting harm on one's homeland; and just as instinctively, we have attributed this definition to the Russians. As a matter of fact, however, except when it suits them for purposes of negotiating certain arms limitations with us (as, for instance, in the case of the Backfire bomber), the Russians have not adopted this definition at all. Their criterion for determining what constitutes strategic weapons is not geographic but functional: a strategic weapon to them is one which, regardless of its range, can attain immediate...
...hoping to find asylum in the U.S. Habib welcomed his visitors under lights so bright that the lawmakers squinted. These lights had been installed to facilitate the secret videotaping, but the sheik's aides explained that he kept them bright because he missed the blazing sun of his homeland. To each Congressman, the pitch was the same: the sheik feared trouble from radicals in his homeland and wanted assurance that he could find permanent sanctuary, if needed, in the U.S. He did not, of course, expect anyone to help him for nothing...
...internationally known scholar of German literature, was accused in Sovietskaya Rossia of turning his Moscow flat "into a nest of ideological subversion and a place for meetings with Western emissaries." The paper also charged that Kopelev, a Jew who spent ten years in the Gulag under Stalin, "hates his homeland" and is "an enemy of the socialist system...