Word: countrymen
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Khalid, variously known to his countrymen as "the quiet prince" and "the man of the desert," is a most reluctant monarch. Like Faisal, he had a circumscribed education, acquired in mosque schools and with Islamic tutors. From childhood he was close to Faisal, and although he served under his elder brother in various government posts from 1934 on, he never developed much taste for public affairs. His passions are falconry (he has one of the best collections of falcons in the world) and the desert life. In earlier years he liked nothing better than to visit tribes in the desert...
...moderate who could ease the differences between militant Catholic and Buddhist factions, Thieu in June 1965 was chosen by his fellow officers to head South Viet Nam's tenth government within 19 months. But he won a reputation as a tough military man who could unite his countrymen in the war against the Communists. In 1967 he was elected President after South Viet Nam's first Western-style political campaign; and four years later, amid charges of harassment of other parties, he was re-elected unopposed...
...address he urged his countrymen to maintain their "unfaltering anti-Communist determination." But he avoided any direct mention of his decision to abandon large portions of his country-or of the hundreds of thousands of newly created refugees who were already choking the nation's road ways. In previous times, Thieu has sometimes been criticized for postponing decisions. Last week's decision -surely one of the most agonizing of his career-was based on the new realities in both Saigon and Washington, and was made with surprising speed...
...Phnom Penh. To be sure, the Khmer Rouge shelling of civilian sections of Phnom Penh is a reprehensible act, but the prospect of a "bloodbath" in Phnom Penh is more likely if Congress approves more aid than if not. The Khmer Rouge are fighting a war against their own countrymen and will have to establish a new government as a first order of business, a task which would only be more difficult in the wake of a civilian slaughter. Continuing the aid will guarantee a bloody, protracted struggle for the city, Congress should refuse the aid and begin to work...
...Irish. That may be why so many writers, most of them Irish, keep on trying. English oppression long ago turned the Irish into sophisticated connoisseurs of futility. Trained to revere heroic martyrs, it is hard for them to resist certain vainglorious failure: another fling at explaining their inexplicable countrymen...