Word: homelands
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...permitted to leave the U.S.S.R. last month for treatment of heart and eye trouble, gathered around the tree with her mother Ruf, son Alexei, daughter Tatiana, their spouses and her three grandchildren. At the celebration in Newton, Mass., where the families live, there were special gifts brought from the homeland, including fine black caviar and vodka. But the day was tempered with sadness. In two months, Bonner must return to Gorky, where Sakharov remains in "internal exile." While her agreement with Soviet authorities prevents her from talking to the press, Son-in-Law Efrem explained, "She counts every day here...
...union said it hoped to persuade the company to change its mind. But unemployment in Bophuthatswana, a nominally independent homeland, is high. The South African Chamber of Mines, which recruits workers throughout the region, already has 400,000 job applications on file. NORTHERN IRELAND Protestants Vent Their Rage...
DIED. Jaroslav Seifert, 84, Czechoslovak poet and winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize for Literature, whose lyric verse celebrating everyday life and the love of women was warmly admired in his homeland but little known elsewhere; in Prague...
...Qahtani's guilt. They tell him that he failed on his mission and hint that other comrades have been captured and are talking about his role in the plot. They play on his emotions, saying he should talk if he ever wants to see his family or friends or homeland again...
...roots of Universal School go back to the arrival of a wave of new Muslim residents in the southwest Chicago suburbs during the 1970s and '80s. Many were Palestinian immigrants who had fled the violence and lack of economic opportunity in their homeland. Busy pursuing the American Dream, they assumed Islam could be passed on to their children around the dinner table. What began to show up at mealtime instead was dyed-green hair and requests to start dating, like the other kids in the public schools. The Islamic students faced discrimination as well, to which they responded with...