Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...previous evening John Paul had held a poignant reunion in Gdansk with Lech Walesa, the electrician who gained worldwide fame as Solidarity's founder. Now a "private citizen" in the government's eyes, an obviously elated Walesa called his 35-minute session with the Pope "great" and said, "We were in a place we know, and we could just be ourselves." At Warsaw's insistence, the meeting was kept off John Paul's official agenda...
...lawyer and punctuating her answers with a curt "sir" stapled at the end. When Maine's Republican Senator William Cohen said he did not think North was entitled to a grant of immunity in exchange for his testimony, Hall objected. "I think that Colonel North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights that you yourself do, sir." Surprised, Cohen paused, then replied, "I understand that. I'm not entitled to immunity . . . I don't think anybody's entitled to immunity." Hall's retort: "We have our separate opinions...
...French citizen and the son of a Resistance fighter. I was appalled to read that there is concern about grouping the Jewish victims together with the Resistance fighters. Barbie killed, tortured and deported many non-Jewish French in the same cruel manner as he did the Jews...
Labor shortages are so acute in Fairfax County that the new hotels are recruiting at local senior citizen centers. The American Automobile Association has announced that it will move its national headquarters from Fairfax County to Orlando in 1989. The reasons, said the AAA, were the difficulty of finding enough clerical workers in Fairfax and, of all things, traffic congestion...
...tenant activist summed it up best in this comment on Harvard's real estate actions in the Square: "HRE has an attitude of the less said, the less known, the better." That's not the proper philosophy for Cambridge's number one corporate citizen...