Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five years old when my parents and I left Cuba in 1962, but the struggle and suffering my family, friends and fellow countrymen have experienced as a result of the Castro takeover has been very real to me since then...
...family, which hitherto has traced its roots to a different and less-distinguished Virginia branch. (On his visit to England in June, Chip Carter apparently visited the wrong ancestral village, Christchurch, which is about 100 miles southwest of King's Langley.) In any event, Carter's onetime countrymen are delighted to find that the President of the U.S. is to the manor born, sort of. Says Brooks-Baker: "The English always wanted Carter to be an aristocrat...
...growing number of his former countrymen are taking De Kock's way out. In May, the latest month for which figures are available, Rhodesia's white population of 270,000 declined by a record 1,339-an annual rate of about 16000 The real exodus could easily be twice what the official figures say it is; many departing whites, in order to avoid red tape and escape their military obligations, are simply going "on holiday" and not coming back...
...argues convincingly that Harvard's presence merely lends the regime respectability without altering its repressive nature. SAVAK's agents do not stop outside the classroom door simply because the professor is American; Iranian participants in Harvard's Iranian projects are as liable to harrassment as the rest of their countrymen...
...heroes, eagerly courted by political parties and the public alike. Israel fared less well in the October War, and generals seem to have lost some stature. Thus, even if the triumvirate were to favor some extreme military action, there is no guarantee that they could sell it to their countrymen...