Word: motherland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cultural histories. In 1931, the communists had promised bordering states their rights to self-determination and complete separation from China, and pledged respect for existing customs and religions. But despite declarations condemning Han chauvinism, the regime embarked on a Hanization drive to return its dependent territories to their Chinese motherland...
...Chinese have also attempted repeatedly to make inroads in the Himalayan border states of Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan, whose people are of Tibetan extraction, claiming that these are Chinese-dependent states taken from their motherland by the imperialists who divided China early in this century. In addition, India's Northeast Frontier Agency is claimed by China as part of its former dependencies. In 1962, the Chinese moved 30,000 troops into the territory--where the inhabitants are predominantly Tibeto-Burmese of Mongolian origin--and laid claim...
...passionate about his motherland, Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 40, spends a lot of time outside the U.S.S.R. Wandering in the Far East to collect material for two new cycles of poems, he visited Singapore, where he gave a reading of "Cemetery of Whales" for a hastily assembled group of 20 university students. Apparently referring to recent criticism of him as a subsidized apologist for the Soviet regime, he declared: "I am a writer, never was and never will be an official representative of my country." The week before, the tall, skinny poet had paid a visit to the Philippines, where...
...irony of World War II was that it brought many Russians a small degree of freedom. Stalin entreated his "brothers and sisters" to unite in defending the motherland. Pravda even printed one of Akhmatova's heroic war poems. Her dormant fame was reawakened. In 1944 she received a standing ovation after reading her poetry from a Moscow stage. But two years later, with the war won, Stalin was asking. "Who organized this standing ovation?" Akhmatova was proscribed again and her son was rearrested...
...chartered Aerolineas Argentinas 707 neared the meadow, there were signs of trouble near the dais, where the returning general was scheduled to speak beneath a 100-ft.-high portrait of himself. Right-wing union leaders dominated the dais, and young leftists wanted a bigger role for themselves. "A Socialist motherland!" they shouted. "A Peronist motherland!" the rightists shouted back...