Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FUTURE OF GERMANY, by Karl Jaspers. In a remarkable work of national selfcriticism, the German philosopher appeals to his countrymen to relinquish the dream of a perfectly ordered state and to forge a nation based on individual political and moral responsibility...
...Viet Cong. But lately, the Viet Cong are narrowing their sights. In an attempt to ride the upswing of racial disorder in the U.S., they are aiming their psychological offensive at the Negro fighting man. "Black G.I. in the U.S. Army!" exhorts one leaflet. "Twenty million of your fellow countrymen in the U.S.A. are being abused, oppressed, exploited, manhandled, murdered by racist authorities." Pleaded another leaflet: "You are committing the same ignominious crimes in South Viet Nam as the K.K.K. clique is perpetrating against your family at home...
...Outs. To keep tabs on his countrymen, Castro has created a spiderweb of security organizations that reaches all the way down to the neighborhood and block level, where special "people's courts" are set up to try offenders. In school, students are trained to be good spies as well as good Communists. They learn their arithmetic with "socialist distribution" problems, study geography in terms of "friendly" and "enemy" nations, and still learn to chant praises of what Castro had hoped to create in Latin America: "One, two, three Viet Nams...
...FUTURE OF GERMANY, by Karl Jaspers. In a lucid and persuasive essay, the 85-year-old German philosopher urges his countrymen to build a nation based on individual responsibility rather than on an atavistic dream of a perfect state...
...Lyndon Johnson's 200 million countrymen, the year produced an unprecedented crop of complaints, based largely on the two great crises that came into confluence. Abroad, there was the war in Viet Nam, possibly the most unpopular conflict in the nation's history and the largest ever waged without specific congressional consent. At home, the Negro, more aware than ever of the distance he has yet to travel toward full citizenship, vented his impatience in riots that rent 70 cities in a summer of bloodshed and pillage. The U.S. was vexed as well by violence in the streets, rising costs...