Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Police meanwhile swooped down on signers and took away their identity cards, making it impossible for them to use the post office. Others found that their children had been barred from colleges and universities. Chartists continued to refuse government offers to let them emigrate, electing to remain with their countrymen in spite of the risk. When one activist was arrested, another had already been designated to take his place. The goal of the charter movement, says one of its founders, Philosopher Jan Patocka, is "a certain moral dignity." The resumption of the crackdown seemed connected with the arrival...
India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, 59, is a shrewd tactician who gambles only on sure things. Last month, to the astonishment of her 620 million countrymen, she suddenly relaxed the emergency regulations under which Indians had been living for 18 months, released dozens of leading political prisoners from detention and announced that the country's long-postponed elections would be held in mid-March. By last week Mrs. Gandhi could wish that she had left bad enough alone. Within a span of three days, the opposition staged a vigorous reincarnation and one of her most respected political...
Some of the recent increase in bellicosity on both sides may reflect calculated attempts by both Chile's Pinochet and Peruvian President Francisco Morales Bermudez to take their countrymen's minds off the soaring inflation and unemployment that plague both nations. Yet the Peruvians' century-old bitter hatred toward their southern neighbors is real and runs deep. To this day, for example, misbehaving Peruvian children are disciplined with the threat: "You'll be given to the Chileans." The anti-Chilean mood has intensified with the approach of the centenary...
...committed in Iran. I really do not believe most of our countrymen are aware of this or the consequences. Excerpts from the above mentioned Senate report leave an indelible imprint...
Dissident artists and intellectuals are probably not the prime target of the new crackdown. It seems more designed to warn Honecker's 17 million countrymen that overt popular discontent will not be tolerated. In a recent reshuffle of the country's top posts, Honecker demoted some relative moderates and increased the power of the hardliners...