Word: homeward
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...Ibos refuse to yield, they would not be without justification. Nigeria is now, more than ever before, divided into separate and hostile regions. Last October's riots seem to have convinced the Nigerians that they cannot live safely among members of another tribe. The surge of refugees fleeging homeward has included not only Ibos, but also Yorubas returning to the West and Hausas to the North. With communications closed, trade between the regions has come to a standstill. Even Nigeria's universities, traditionally neutral meeting places for members of feuding tribes, have been crippled by the new crisis. Almost...
...Homeward Bound--Simon & Garfunkel...
...will, it was Arthur S. Kruse of Grand Haven, Mich. A retired insurance executive, he devoted the last years of his life to passionate study of his own family tree. Indeed, when he died aboard a Greyhound bus in Pennsylvania last March at the age of 67, Kruse was homeward bound from a genealogical mission to the New York Public Library. He had good reason to have given considerable thought to his probable heirs. When a Grand Haven bank opened his safe-deposit box after his death, it found securities worth...
...been termed "horizontal repatriation." When death occurs abroad, the problems for the family are complex. The cheerful note is that no country serves its dead as quickly and as well as the U.S., whose consuls abroad are the envy of Europe in their ability to get the deceased homeward bound with a minimum of delay...
...present, or cabling them for instructions if they are not (all passport applications list next of kin). The family is requested to deposit money with the State Department to defray the expenses (minimum cost from Europe, $1,100 including embalming and transportation). In most instances the deceased is homeward bound within three to four days. Delay does occur, however, when the deceased has left a will specifying how and where he wishes to be buried. One U.S. visitor who died in Cairo was kept in deep freeze for 13 days until the reading of his will...