Word: homelands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pakistani government of President Mohammed Zia Ul-Haq is tempted to encourage the Afghan tribesmen to fight the Kabul government, with which Pakistan has always had uneasy relations. But the Pushtun (or Pathan) tribesmen, whose homeland is on both sides of the border, also have their differences with Pakistan. So Zia is reluctant to grant the insurgents too much aid lest they use it to fight his government, which has serious problems...
Apart from Iran and its fallout, 1979 was a year of turmoil highlighted by an occasional upbeat note: hopeful stirrings that offset to a degree the continuing victories of the forces of disruption (see page 34). On a spectacular visit to his homeland of Poland and to the U.S., Ireland and Mexico, Pope John Paul II demonstrated that he was a man whose warmth, dignity and radiant humanity deeply affected even those who did not share his Roman Catholic faith. Despite his rigidly orthodox approach to doctrinal issues, the Pope's message of peace, love, justice and concern...
study and teaching, inclduing almost 15 years of exile, and now a year of adulation and power in his homeland, the Ayatullah has been wholly consistent?and totally unbending. Why not? In his own mind he speaks not for himself but for God, whose precepts never change. Says Richard Cottam of the University of Pittsburgh, one of the few American scholars who have held long conversations with Khomeini: "The trouble in talking to him is that you always run up against a wall called...
...popular in human terms. Everywhere, he uncompromisingly addressed the key issues troubling the Roman Catholic Church. In Puebla, Mexico, he told Latin American bishops that while the church must preach social justice, it can never accommodate theologies that are inspired as much by Marx as by Jesus. In his homeland of Poland, during the first visit by a Pope to a Communist-ruled land, he encouraged East bloc Christians to persist in their struggle for religious liberty...