Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Normally, Simeonov's apparent fall would have been dismissed as an accident. Police found no telltale injuries on his body, and a post-mortem indicated death by asphyxiation: the victim had suffocated in his own blood after breaking his nose. But two of Simeonov's countrymen had just come forth with bizarre tales suggestive of a cloak-and-dagger conspiracy concocted by the legendary S.M.E.R.S.H. Since one of the two, Georgi Markov, 49, a friend of Simeonov's and also a BBC broadcaster, had just been murdered in diabolical fashion, Scotland Yard was asking some very stern questions about Simeonov...
...widespread complaint that he has abandoned Islam and failed as his countrymen's defender of the faith. That charge is not right. In so many of my decisions, writings and actions I have shown my commitment to my religion. First, there are the books I have written. Second, there are all the holy places I have restored. Third, there are the pilgrimages I have made. And there's also what...
...last week the election balloon that had seemed to be nearing takeoff in Britain for most of the summer ran flat out of hot air. In a move that stunned pundits and outraged political opponents, the Prime Minister announced in a four-minute televised address to his countrymen that his minority Labor government would not call for a general election next month, as nearly everyone thought it would. Declared Callaghan: "The government must and will continue to carry out policies which are consistent and determined, which do not chop and change ..." In practical terms, that almost certainly postponed Britain...
MacArthur's strategies helped to win three wars, but foreigners often appreciated him more than his own countrymen. Winston Churchill spoke of him as "the glorious commander." To the Japanese, whom he outwitted at nearly every turn, he seemed endowed with almost superhuman powers. Yet Franklin Roosevelt privately labeled him one of the two most dangerous men in America (the other was Huey Long), and Harry Truman called him "a counterfeit...
...Sandinista National Liberation Front, a leftist guerrilla organization dedicated to the overthrow of the feudalistic Somoza dynasty. They were about to launch one of the most spectacular?and most successful?terrorist raids in recent history. So successful was the outcome, in fact, that many of Somoza's countrymen now believed that his government might never fully recover...