Word: landing
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...debate kept circling back to urgent yet timeless questions. What makes a good member of society? The "higher purpose" his nation exhorts him to? Or the very specific moral and legal demands put upon him by his neighbors, his village and the ties of blood and land? In an era of megamachines and megastates, do we overrate the big in history-the Roman Empire, the papacy? If you wanted to change, really change, the world today, wouldn't you do well to "cultivate smaller gardens," the neighborhood community rather than the U.N.? The seminar concluded in stalemate...
...Iowa last week, another group of homeless refugees found sanctuary in a new land. There were not many relatives to greet the 196 Vietnamese "boat people" as their chartered jet from Malaysia landed in Des Moines, but their expressions of joy and hope were much like those of the Soviet Jews. Tran Qui Son, 26, had fled Viet Nam by boat with his wife and two young sons after the Communist regime had forced him to close his appliance repair shop. They floated to Malaysia, where they huddled with 60,000 other refugees awaiting a new home. Said...
...troubles more in sorrow than in anger. Bill Robinson, a veteran Georgia political observer, says that they regard Betty as a vindictive woman and see the Senator as "an old man kicked out of his home, living in an apartment while his wife got the hogs, the land and the pecan trees. His only home is the Senate." The prevailing view is that Talmadge can be beaten only if the Senate votes to censure him outright-and even then it would be a close race...
During World War II, some 200 people, mostly black, lived in coastal Harris Neck, Ga., farming small plots, raising cows, pigs and chickens and fishing for oysters, shrimp and crabs. But in 1942 the Army began evicting the residents, paying them less than $10 an acre for their land, and built an emergency airbase. After the war, the 2,687 acres passed from one unit of Government to another; finally, in the early 1960s, the land was declared "surplus property" and turned into a federal haven for geese, ducks and deer. Apparently no one considered selling the land back...
After waiting nearly 40 years for someone in Washington to do something about their grievance, 50 former residents and descendants peacefully invaded the Harris Neck Wildlife Refuge. They set up tents and vowed to remain until the Government was willing to discuss giving back the land, rebuilding their homes and paying $50 million in damages. Last week a federal judge in Savannah ordered the protesters to leave. When four men refused, they were arrested by federal marshals. As the men were taken away, scores of supporters stood outside the refuge's barbed-wire fence, crying, praying and singing...