Word: motherland
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...future king, at Franco's side, they shouted "Franco solo! Franco solo!" Paling visibly, the young prince quickly stepped back. "Spaniards!" croaked Francisco Franco in his high voice. "Thank you for this explosion of faith and enthusiasm, seconded by the people who believe in the destiny of the motherland...
YORAM ARIDOR is a young Tel Aviv lawyer and Knesset member of the Gahal Party who believes that "to accept the Rogers plan is to accept the principle of withdrawal, and to us that means waiving our rights to the Israeli motherland. Judea and Samaria [Jordan's West Bank now occupied by Israel] belong to us. In Sinai we do not have the historical reasons for staying but security requires that we do not withdraw from Sinai. Three times in 20 years we have had to fight there...
Aridor is ready to offer West Bank Arabs "all the rights of Jewish citizens of Israel." He adds: "We want to sign a peace treaty with Jordan as it is today. I believe the Israeli motherland extends to the East Bank, but we will not go to war to get it. If we cannot get a peace treaty, then it is better to fight on the Jordan River where we are now than back on our old borders a few miles from Tel Aviv...
...Russia, Blum changes his style to a controlled lyricism that quietly points toward a meaning: man can surmount such obscenities as technological soul snatching by confronting his beginnings and forging a new mythology. In Home's case the transcendence occurs during a return to what is literally his motherland. ∙R.Z. Sheppard
Double Duty. In the past the Soviets have been unresponsive to Western suggestions of mutual reductions because their troops in Eastern Europe perform double duty-providing a forward defense for the motherland and enforcing allegiance to Moscow. This time, however, many NATO ministers were hopeful that the Soviets would be less hostile to what the alliance's planners unpronounceably call MBFR (for mutual balanced force reductions). Reason: the ministers thought that the Soviets might show themselves receptive in order to ensure the participation of NATO countries in a pet Soviet project, the European Security Conference. The Soviet goal...