Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thailand, half had been seduced by Ho Chi Minh's propaganda machine into returning home. But they had no sooner returned than the Communists stripped them of the possessions that they had brought with them from Thailand. Says Thanat: The returned refugees sent word back to their countrymen in Thailand-"Don't ever come back to this paradise...
Then what should the United States do? Should negotiations start tomorrow and should all American troops be out of the country at the end of a month? Should there be a vast reversal in American foreign policy? Should Lyndon Johnson go on television and say "My fellow countrymen, we have been entirely wrong in Vietnam. We must withdraw our troops from Vietnam and from the other nations of the world where our presence is obstructing progress, and concentrate our attention on the problems of our own country and the vast natural difficulties that afflict the world...
...69th Boston Marathon, pit-patting over the grueling 26-mi. 385-yd. course in 2 hrs. 16 min. 33 sec. to clip a full 2 min. off the record set two years ago by Belgium's Aurele Vandendriessche; at Boston. Shigematsu led a parade of his countrymen across the line; Japanese took second, third, fifth and sixth places as well. Vandendriessche wound up fourth; first U.S. runner to finish was Ralph Buschmann in seventh place...
...hereditary claim to the throne of Scone that set the firths on fire. In a quarter-century of ferocious fighting he drove the English out of Scotland, broke his domestic enemies in a bloody civil war, founded a dynasty that endured for four centuries, and bequeathed to his countrymen their national epic...
...Amid the current "genuine excitement in Peru," my wife and I worked for three years as Papal Volunteers for Latin America. We were pleased with TIME'S tremendous coverage of Peru's new conquest. Would that more of President Belaúnde's aristocratic countrymen were awakened to the adelante spirit his administration has created...