Word: countrymen
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...were started in 1727. Last week Prime Minister James Callaghan summoned vacationing Cabinet members back to No. 10 Downing Street for an emergency meeting and asked Sports Minister Denis Howell to assume responsibility for conserving what remains of the country's dwindling water supplies. Howell immediately asked his countrymen, who now use an average of 39 gal. of water a day, to halve their consumption. He also urged Britons to spy on their neighbors and report any "abuses or misuses" of water. "The flowers are going to have to wilt," said Howell, "and cars will have to remain dirty...
...skirmishing with the Kenyans right after they allowed Israeli planes to refuel at Nairobi following the Entebbe raid. Uganda, declared Amin, "reserves the right to retaliate in whatever way possible." Since then hundreds of Kenyans have fled Uganda in fear, carrying tales of extortion, beatings and killings of their countrymen by Ugandan soldiers. This moved Kenyan Foreign Minister Mu-nyua Waiyaki, in a letter to the U.N. last week, to indict Kampala for "systematic and indiscriminate massacre of Kenyan citizens," some 5,000 of whom remain in Uganda...
...nearby Israeli towns where special first-aid stations have been set up. So far, the Jewish physicians have treated 2,000 Lebanese; some 100 are still recovering in Israeli hospitals. Initially, most of the patients were Christians, apparently because they were not as fearful of reprisals from their countrymen as were others. But these anxieties have diminished as medical needs increased. The Israelis recently let it be known that they would minister to Moslems as well...
...illustration of the country's uniqueness is the anecdote about a Swedish economist bragging to an Indian of the splendid performance of Sweden's economy. 'How many countrymen do you have?' inquired the Indian. When the Swede replied, the Indian retorted wryly, 'Well, that is what in my country we call a laboratory...
Besides, while the bicentennial is a spectacle that begs our involvement, Shaw cunningly obliges us to distance ourselves from the illusion he presents. At one point, after Swindon, in the face of disastrous war news, declares his faith in his countrymen's devotion. Burgoyne cuttingly asks him if he's writing a melodrama. With all this self-consciousness, it's not too surprising that The Devil's Disciple never quite compels our belief. But neither does it matter, since the Summer School Repertory Theater, inaugurating its season with polish and style, so winningly compels our laughter...