Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of the Labor government's plan to provide for the security of Israel's borders but by a zealous organization called Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful). It believes that Jews have the right to settle in any part of the West Bank, since this land was included in ancient Judea and Samaria...
Then, as the sun set over the islands, the men held hands in a circle and chanted: "May we always be united in our purpose to free this land from torment. May the bombing stop and the land grow again." Before dawn they had broken up into groups of two or three to improve their chances of evading Marine patrols. Within two days, four of the invaders gave themselves up. But the others remained at large and were joined last week by six additional protesters. Until all are rounded up, the Navy will have to suspend target practice...
...members of the Ghana, the Navy's bombardment of Kahoolawe symbolizes what has happened to the Hawaiian islands and the native culture. Explains Walter Ritte, 32, of the latest expedition: "By bombing and shelling continually, the U.S. Government shows the same contempt for our land and inalienable rights as it did in 1898 [when the islands were annexed]." Ghana was founded four years ago on the neighboring island of Molokai to lead a fight for more public beaches, but the organization quickly spread through the islands and shifted to the much broader purpose of redressing native Hawaiians' political...
Ghana's popularity reflects the growing resentment of Hawaii's 8,000 pure-blooded Polynesians and 140,000 citizens of mixed blood. In the land of their ancestors, they are greatly outnumbered by the islands' 720,000 other residents-predominantly Caucasians and Orientals. Barely half of the native Hawaiians have completed high school (v. 72% of the other islanders), most have menial jobs, and their annual income averages just under $10,000, about $1,000 less than that of the state as a whole. Moreover, according to a survey by Alu Like, a cultural organization, native Hawaiians...
...keeping up the pressure on Kahoolawe, the Ghana organization hopes to win some concessions. At the urging of the Ghana and other protest groups, the islands' congressional delegation has sponsored legislation to compensate native Hawaiians for lands lost after annexation-something like the 1971 grant of $962.5 million to Alaska's natives in settlement of their land claims. In addition, Senator Daniel Inouye has proposed a bill that would force the Navy to stop bombing Kahoolawe...