Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dear countrymen," Bakhtiar concluded, "we have been through a long and bitter struggle, and I believe it is now time to end the chaos, the violence and murder, the loss of life of our countrymen. With your support, I sincerely hope to lead Iran to a genuine social democracy." One subject of that appeal was Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, the exiled Shi'ite mullah who has become the spearhead of the anti-Shah revolution. At week's end. speaking from his headquarters in a suburb of Paris, Khomeini jeopardized Bakhtiar's chances by declaring that "obedience to this...
Said Ecevit last week: "Whatever our differences of opinion, everyone must do his best to call out to his own followers for peace." At week's end, Ecevit's countrymen seemed to be heeding that plea His government was not expected to topple-if only because no one else seemed to be willing to take on Ecevit's painful responsibilities...
...only Christmas Day but also his 60th birthday, and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was in an expansive mood as he addressed his countrymen on television. True, he castigated Israeli Premier Menachem Begin for seeking to create "a greater Israel extending from the Euphrates to the Nile." But he also voiced confidence that the Middle East would not revert to the "no-war, no-peace stalemate" of recent years, and he assured, "Peace will come, sooner or later...
DIED. Josef Frings, 91, outspoken West German Roman Catholic Cardinal; of a heart attack; in Cologne. Named Archbishop of Cologne in 1942, Frings denounced the Nazi persecution of the Jews during World War II, and after the war condoned his destitute countrymen's scavenging for food and coal (such justifiable theft became affectionately known as "fringsen"). Appointed a Cardinal in 1946, he strove for a politically active church and during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), successfully challenged the authority of the conservative Roman Curia. In 1969, nearly blind and in poor health, Frings retired from the archbishopric...
Azhari maintained that the Shah retained the support of the "silent people," the majority of his countrymen. The truth, however, is that much of the Shah's support has evaporated, except among the military, the well-to-do and the peasants. The country is staggering under a burden of rampaging inflation (current rate: 50% annually) and economic chaos engendered by the Shah's feverish efforts to modernize his backward nation within the space of a decade or two. There is no responsible opposition, his critics claim, because he has banned political expression for 25 years. The result...