Land took over at the Christian Life Commission in the fall of 1988.
Mr. de Land took over the Chelsea space of his wife, Pat Hearn, after she died in 2000, also of cancer.
He is now defying a judicial order to indemnify the owners of land taken over by the city back in 1989.
Thousands of families, mostly Tamil, are still looking for loved ones who were forcibly disappeared or trying to take back land taken over by the military.
He wrote that the Chilean "oligarchy" has been denying Bolivia its ocean port, and that the land taken over by Chile contains the largest copper reserve in the world, providing the Chilean economy with millions of dollars each year.
The replacement of Line 6B, a 43-year-old pipeline that leaked more than one million gallons of heavy crude into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, faces opposition from landowners who do not want more of their land taken over to accommodate the new one.
The contract was the culmination of Mr. Robert's own vision that the private sector could, and should, be involved in the recycling of the $18 billion in buildings and land taken over by the Resolution Trust Corporation, formed by the government to rescue the faltering savings and loans industry.
The site, near Independence Park in the centre of Jerusalem, is on disputed land, taken over by Israel's Land Administration in 1948 as absentee property, whose ownership is claimed by the Islamic authorities as waqf land, with their very present dead.
They have the courage to criticise Amnesty International for exaggerating the plight of farm workers who were forced off formerly "white" land taken over by Africans, and say that by 2011 the number of people working on resettlement land had increased more than fivefold, from 167,000 to over a million.
"Ironically the crossing of the 'red line' on wetlands probably results from trying to achieve the 'red line' on agricultural land," says Spike Millington, chief executive of the South Korea based East Asian-Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), "since any agricultural land taken over for development has to be compensated by an equivalent area of newly created 'agricultural' land elsewhere". .
