Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about Communist Cuba. Mexico has defied the recent OAS vote requiring all hemisphere nations to break diplomatic and economic relations with Cuba. It stands virtually alone (Uruguay was the only other country holding off by last week). But in his speech to his fiercely proud and independent countrymen, López Mateos said that Mexico intended to maintain its contacts and handle Castro in its own fashion. The U.S. doesn't really like that much but with López' Mexico doing so well, it seems too small to get very upset about...
Chehab ruled by doing nothing, at home or abroad. Despising politicians, whom he calls fromagistes (cheese eaters), Chehab would rather let Lebanon boom or bust than go in for planning. In this, he again proved how well he understood his countrymen, for the typical Lebanese is both capitalist and anarchist, and glories in contradiction...
...underground trade has become a significant adjunct to the $3 billion-a-year above-board trade between free and Red Europe. Austria's Interior Minister Franz Olah, whose country ranks as the No. 1 clandestine exporter, recently pleaded with his countrymen to respect the satellites' customs and currency regulations. Since April, 20 Austrians have been arrested in Czechoslovakia on smuggling charges. A Czech court convicted one Austrian couple and an accomplice of making 49 visits to Czechoslovakia to cart in, among other items, 256 nylon coats, 39 transistor radios, 42 pairs of stockings and 22 Ibs. of chocolate...
...international figures expressed grave concern over the reaction of their countrymen to the nomination of Senator Goldwater at the International Seminar Forum last night...
...office, Tavares helped get an international economic mission in the Dominican Republic, restored the ailing sugar industry to private enterprise (under Trujillo, it was almost a personal monopoly), created an industrial-incentive program with lower taxes to encourage foreign investment, and promoted a student-credit institute to help his countrymen get an education. But at every turn, he found himself hampered by squabbling generals and politicians...