Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home address of Spain's 17th reigning sovereign is no small matter. By avoiding the castle last occupied by his grandfather Alfonxo XIII in 1931, Juan Carlos Alfonso Victor Maria de Borbon y Borbon is sending a signal of solidarity with his countrymen's longing for self rule...
Juan Carlos plays it to a tee. In a fireside chat last Christmas Eve, he warned his countrymen of the danger of pessimism...
...Iranian victory. That adds up to a bad formula for peace. Thus, while insurance rates climb and world oil prices quiver, the tanker war is likely to go on. Summarizing his country's new policy, the leader of Iran's parliament, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, told his countrymen last week that they should be prepared for a "long-drawn-out war with the U.S." Said he: "Either the gulf will be safe for all, or it will be safe for none...
...that they had strayed into hostile territory, they turned the car around and tried to flee. Syrian soldiers opened fire on the retreating auto and gave chase. By the time a special commando team from Israel had been sent to the scene in an effort to rescue its stranded countrymen, the three officials had been captured. They were flown to Damascus, where the Syrian government announced that they would be held as prisoners...
...altogether true. While his diplomats in London were creating havoc before their expulsion from Britain late last month, reports were circulating in Libya that Gaddafi's troubles were mounting at home. According to Western residents and Libyans in Tripoli, he is less popular today with his 3.2 million countrymen than at any time since he seized power in 1969 from the aging and ineffectual King Idris. Despite the country's tightly controlled press, a highly efficient rumor machine keeps Libyans fairly well informed about the latest groundswells of resentment. The rumors suggest a spectrum of discontent that ranges...