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...seen from the mountains of western Pakistan, Afghanistan is a desert carpet of brown and beige, smudged with dust devils rising to the sky. Up close, it is a land stubbornly clinging to its nationhood and seething with hatred for the Soviet invaders, the shuravi. Almost as soon as we boarded our first bus, at the border, we were asked a question that would be repeated everywhere we went: "What is your country?" Our reply invariably drew smiles and approving nods. "Ah, Amer-eeka. Good," they said...
...DANGEROUS. Perhaps disco or the decreasing number of minor league baseball players are responsible, but the collective psyche of the young generation disturbs many older concerned citizens. Gazing toward a rosy, if hazy, past, they focus on World War II, remembering fondly the unity of spirit and pride in nationhood. If only that spirit could return, if only, as President Carter instructed, we could "say something good about America." The answer, some say, is National Service, to revive our recalcitrant souls...
...delegation headed by its president, the Rev. Joseph Lowery. Meeting with Terzi and other P.L.O. representatives, it conveyed its unconditional support for the "human rights of all Palestinians, including the right of self-determination in regard to their homeland." Although the S.C.L.C. urged "consideration to the recognition of the nationhood of Israel" and stopped short of endorsing a separate Palestinian state, Terzi was delighted with the meeting...
...studies to proclaim that nationalism is flourishing even in Manchuria, though the Manchus have virtually vanished as an identifiable ethnic group, largely because of overwhelming Han Chinese immigration for a century. At one point Louis admits this; at another point he claims, preposterously, that the issue of Manchu nationhood is being debated "heatedly" by scholars. He even concocts a bizarre drama in which the Tibetan Dalai Lama takes up residence in the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator and rallies Tibetans and Mongols-who share the same kind of Buddhism-to separatism...
That problem is how to satisfy the Palestinian demand for some form of nationhood. They remain a homeless people, "the Jews of the Arab world." They have their freedom fighters: the fedayeen. Palestinian guerrillas divided into six major groups that form the Palestine Liberation Organization, a kind of shadow government headed by Yasser Arafat. But they have little else. Israelis maintain that, as former Premier Golda Meir once put it, "there is no such thing as a Palestinian." Many of them carry no more proof of citizenship than the laisser-passer that have been issued to residents of the refugee...