Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...performed ably as members of the U.N. peace-keeping mission in the Congo. Two Scandinavians, Norway's Trygve Lie and Sweden's Dag Hammarskjold, ran the U.N. creditably for 15 years. When Hammarskjold died in a 1961 plane crash, he had extended U.N. influence and broadened his countrymen's horizons. Younger Swedes, who previously showed little interest in world affairs, now generally support Western proposals for an ambitious Swedish foreign aid program in keeping with its affluence. "They used to turn instinctively inward," says Premier Tage Erlander. "I sense a great change...
...departure, 134 years after the first French soldiers landed, was the last step of France's retreat from Algeria-well, almost the last. Some French troops still remain at the big Mers-el-Kebir naval base and at Saharan bases, but Ben Bella promised his countrymen that a "solution will be found...
...signed this week. Under it, each nation may open consulates outside the capital cities, possibly in Leningrad and Chicago. The pact requires that whenever one nation arrests a citizen of the other, it must notify the other nation within three days, permit a visit from the prisoner's countrymen within, four days. It is the first bilateral treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and will, of course, require ratification by the U.S. Senate...
After a three-week rest at his villa in rural Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, France's foremost convalescent returned to public life last week, and instantly the nation's favorite game became face watching. The face, of course, belonged to Charles de Gaulle, and what his countrymen saw in it depended partly on their politics. The anti-Gaullist weekly L'Express, for instance, carried a photo of a worn, waxen-faced man whose eyes were more deeply pouched than ever. Gaullists found him leaner than before his April prostate operation but fit enough to serve for years...
...steel, aluminum, gold, brass, soft epidermal plastic, air tubes, fluid tubes, pneumatic and hydraulic valves. Abe works a twelve-hour day at the Illinois pavilion. He does a show every twelve minutes, speaking without notes and repeating bits of six of his earlier speeches, reminding his countrymen that "right makes might...