Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several U.S. cases have already implicated high-level Cubans in trafficking. In February 1988, for instance, 17 people were indicted in Miami on charges of smuggling drugs from South America, some of it through Cuba, into South Florida. Last March, when Reinaldo Ruiz, a Cuban-born U.S. citizen, and his son Ruben pleaded guilty, Dexter Lehtinen, the U.S. Attorney in Miami, released a videotape on which Ruben stated that the Ruiz operation had secured cooperation from Cuban officers to use military runways as transit points. Of Cuba's compensation, Ruben said, "The money went into Fidel's drawer" -- a charge...
...this decade, American society is jaded. We have seen too many dead soldiers, too many protests, too many presidential scandals. The average citizen has heard too often that someone else is working harder, getting less and therefore deserves more...
...celebrates the country's history, its freedoms, and the battles fought to secure those freedoms. It embodies, often in an intensely emotional way, the love and loyalty most Americans feel for their country. It stands for the unity of one nation and for the individual rights of each citizen. And now, because of a landmark ruling by a deeply divided Supreme Court, the American flag represents a land where people have the right to burn the American flag...
Burn an American flag? The patriotic mind recoils. Reverence for the flag is ingrained in every schoolchild who has quailed at the thought of letting it touch the ground, in every citizen moved by pictures of it being raised at Iwo Jima or planted on the moon, in every veteran who has ever heard taps played at the end of a Memorial Day parade, in every gold-star mother who treasures a neatly folded emblem of her family's supreme sacrifice...
Authorities made clear that the testimony of strangers is not enough. It is a citizen's duty to betray his own kith and kin. The Zhou clan, willingly or by coercion, did its duty. Zhou Fengsuo, 22, a physics student at Qinghua University in Beijing, was among the 21 student leaders named by officials last Tuesday as the country's most-wanted criminals. The next night on television, Zhou was shown being led into a police station for interrogation. The scene then shifted to the home of Zhou Yanrong, the student's sister. Dandling a baby...