Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went away to Rome last Oct. 3 as Karol Wojtyla, a Cardinal-Archbishop warmly admired by his countrymen but little known elsewhere in the world. Last week he returned in triumph as John Paul II, a dynamic new Pope whose skill, originally tried and proved in day-by-day contest with Poland's Communist rulers, would be tested once again...
Still, the most horrifying evidence of Amin's dictatorship is not economic ruin, but the brutal slaughter of his countrymen. Perhaps as many as 300,000 were shot, clubbed, bayoneted, hanged or strangled by Amin's secret police. It will clearly take years for Uganda to emerge from its dual nightmare of bloody terror and economic collapse...
...deserves the gallows" for his role in killing at least 300,000 of his people, the national radio called on Ugandans "to find him wherever he is." Lule (pronounced Loo-lay), who will hold office until elections can be called, struck a more reflective note when he told his countrymen, "Ugandans from every tribe and every family have suffered from his murders, torture, terror, robbery and plunder. From this day, Ugandans must resolve never to allow a dictator to rule them again...
Garry Wills calls himself a conservative, out of convenience. He would rather call himself a "convenientist," a citizen always willing to convene with his countrymen for the public good...
...Similarly Galbraith plays down the racial hatred migrants have inspired and the dreadful standard of living--hardly better than what they left--that they are often forced to accept. Finally, while Galbraith says countries like Germany and Switzerland have been able to expand their economies without putting their own countrymen out of work, he does not explain how the U.S. with today's unemployment and inflation can afford to do so. Galbraith says, "One must surely rejoice in the discovery of a remedy for poverty where no one, those involved or those affected, can, in the fullness of time...