Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they have seen signs of Mao's beginning to turn inward, to reflect on himself in the light of Confucian philosophy. From a Confucian bit of advice about grain storage, given to the last Emperor of the Ming dynasty, comes Mao's latest slogan for his waiting countrymen...
Other major collaborators-Norway's Vidkun Quisling, France's Pierre Laval-were executed long ago by their countrymen, but Degrelle managed to escape to Spain. Though a Belgian court later sentenced him to death for high treason, the Franco regime has continued to insist that no one by the name of Léon Degrelle lives in Spain...
...self-reproach. After their long ordeal, the P.O.W.s had every reason to greet freedom ecstatically. But they had no need to offer profuse thanks to the country that had sent them to war. If they could so spontaneously pour out their love of country, then why should their fellow countrymen who had stayed home in safety and affluence be despairing? The return of the P.O.W.s was a tonic for America. "I just hope we can help America join closer together," says Air Force Colonel Lawrence Guarino. "When the whole story is out, I think it will do Americans justice...
...will be most of his countrymen -provided he can squeeze major concessions out of Washington. Despite the length and isolation of the Canal Zone, there is little danger of the U.S. being pushed out by force, but Washington does want to avoid accusations of Yankee imperialism. It is the U.S. Congress, however, and not the U.N. Security Council, that holds the power over ratification of any new Canal treaty, and Congress is adamantly opposed to anything suggesting a giveaway. "The whole shooting match will go down the drain unless Torrijos and Tack [Juan Tack, Panama's foreign minister] stop...
...alternately satirical and lyrical, is a mistress of controlled hysteria. She skillfully presses her polarized universe upon her reader and indeed upon her race. She may be excessively hard on civilization. But, as only a really gifted writer can, she turns paranoia into art, forcing her rapidly industrializing fellow countrymen - her rap idly overindustrializing world - to contemplate the hate in the bloody eye of one of their victims: the "pure pain, clear as water, an animal's at the moment the trap closes." ∙Melvin Maddocks