Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason for the change was Pompidou's determination to persuade his disenchanted countrymen that the regime plans to attack actively such major problems as inflation and mounting labor unrest. Still another aim, most observers suspect, is the determination of the President-who many Frenchmen believe will resign before the 1976 elections because of his ill health-to keep firm control of the government. By re-appointing Messmer, Pompidou made it clear that he is not yet ready to anoint a possible successor...
...Beloved countrymen: Day by day the Phnom-Penh front becomes increasingly intense. Evacuate quickly to avoid accidents that may be caused by our raids. Come to the Liberated Zone, where your safety will be guaranteed...
...Solzhenitsyn had been mounting steadily, along with concern in the West that he might again, with or without trial, be sent to prison, or even executed. Instead he was exiled, depriving Soviet dissidents of perhaps their most outstanding leader. He will continue write and to speak; but, for his countrymen, Solzhenitsyn, cut off from the living stream of events, will be the voice from abroad--exiled because the truth he spoke was too powerful to be answered, refuted, denied. The writer was cast out, sent away. But the writings remain...
...intrinsic worth, but only a thing, a useful thing or a useless thing; whenever the human being is mocked and broken, and right and wrong fall silent or are cast out, the admonitory finger of Solzhenitsyn points as firmly at us as it does at his own countrymen. He reminds us that the place "beyond freedom and dignity" is a place of cruelty and terror, where the justice and beauty and worth of a human life are trampled into the dust. And he reminds us that these values are not things of a day. They are the very soul...
...American bombers droned overhead. The North Vietnamese issued one general directive, in the form of a poem, part of which follows, "Liberation fighter, spring in Vietnam is ineffably beautiful. Tet is unbelievably epic. Apricot blossoms vie with each other to cheer your feats. Swallows take wing, telling our countrymen north and south of your deeds. Liberation fighter, let off your gun this spring instead of the usual firecrackers. And ornament Vietnam's spring with everlasting beauty." And the American bomber pilots, peering at the tiny figures marching below, may have wondered why these people never surrendered...