Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both the menace and the dream of it, is the message of the land. Because the country is inside you: better or worse as you are better or worse; fairer, saner, kinder as you are any of those things. At night lie still and feel the struggles of your countrymen to make the progress of the nation fit the progress of their souls. They celebrate themselves and sing themselves...
Thus far, no evidence has surfaced to link Waldheim to specific war crimes. Still, the debate over Waldheim's Nazi past struck a responsive chord among the Austrian people, and many of his countrymen rallied behind him. "My husband was drafted at age 17," said a Vienna woman. "If he were more prominent, he too might be wrongly accused of war crimes...
...Socialists treated the controversy gingerly. Only recently did Steyrer begin to allude openly to the damage a Waldheim victory could inflict on the country's reputation. WITH STEYRER, ALL OF AUSTRIA WINS proclaimed one campaign poster. Bruno Kreisky, the Socialist ex-Chancellor, last week appealed to his countrymen not to vote for Waldheim. Asked Kreisky: "Didn't we always have decent Presidents whom we could show in public...
...press last month, he spoke for the first time of the enrichment that Austria has derived from "this small but so important Jewish community, which we would not wish to miss." Recognizing that "special grief has come through the Nazis to the Jews of Europe and our Jewish countrymen of Austria," Waldheim called on his fellow citizens "not to tolerate any new anti-Semitism in our country...
...beginning, good fortune seemed to take her by the hand. Almost overnight, she in turn promised her countrymen a new world of integrity, democracy and grace. In the twelve weeks since she toppled Ferdinand Marcos, Philippine President Corazon Aquino has disbanded the discredited Marcos- controlled National Assembly and replaced the deposed dictator's self- serving 1973 constitution with a provisional "Freedom Constitution" of her own. She has converted the presidential Malacanang Palace into a public museum of her predecessor's egregious extravagance, and last week, in her first press conference with foreign reporters, the new leader displayed a characteristic blend...