Word: lande
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Once again opportunity has passed us by. Until America faces up to the unpleasant reality that the land in question is rightfully Palestinian, no number of treaties or summits will achieve lasting peace in the Middle East. The only positive results of the recent summit will be new drains on the U.S. taxpayer to coax Premier Begin to give up a few Israeli settlements in the Sinai...
...sudden LeBoutillier is a hot prospect for both the Ford and Reagan fund-raising teams--or so he says. But he finds the Republican Party has "lost its soul." What the party and the country needs, he believes, is another Homestead Act--to return Americans to the land and their families; to recapture the spirit of 1862 without having to give 162 acres to each person...
WHEN THE RICH and the powerful of the land converge on Cambridge next weekend to dedicate the new facilities of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard hopes it will be inaugurating a new era in the training of American public servants. Harvard will also be honoring Charles W. Engelhard, the man who for two decades served as the United States' largest corporate backer of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Not just any small-time mogul who has run roughshod over the political and economic rights of 18 million people, but the very epitome of U.S. corporate complicity...
...American colonialism was hardly much nicer than the African variety. Our continent's indigenous people, the American Indians, were simply routed from their land and murdered. Instead of exploiting the labor of our "natives," as the Europeans did in Africa, we just got rid of them...
...continue to face special problems. American Indians have a significantly lower life expectancy and a higher infant mortality rate than the U.S. population at large. They suffer the economic exploitation of the giant energy companies, who seek the vast quantities of coal and uranium buried underneath the remaining Indian land. Indian workers, for example, have been sent to work in the uranium mines for years without adequate warning of, or protection from, the deadly radioactive gas radon and its breakdown products present in those mines. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, those workers face an increased chance of getting...