Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, let's broaden the attack. Reveal to your countrymen who's really behind the professional football player's strike. Commies, naturally--and you've got names! And what about those air traffic controllers? They've been awfully quiet recently. Maybe the Justice Department should round up a few of those pinkos just for good measure...
...Lebanon conflict was stamped as "Begin's war" by some of his fellow countrymen, and Israel was tired of it before it even began. After 34 years of fighting, through four major wars, the nation has reached a saturation point. Its economy is over-wrought (inflation is 130 percent), its founding idealism has diminished, and it feels the time has come to peacefully reap the fruits of nationhood...
Mitterrand, then vacationing in central France, had to act. He had promised during his 1980 campaign that he would be "The Tranquil Force" and wanted to reassure his countrymen they would be protected. At the same time, he felt he had to clarify French intentions in Lebanon. Television was his chosen method...
Liberator. Warlord. Patriot. Power-mad. Those are some of the terms that Bashir Gemayel's deeply riven countrymen have used to describe their President-elect during his years as a leader of the Christian militia forces. Part political idealist and part storm trooper, Gemayel, 34, has shown he will use whatever means necessary to achieve his nationalist goals. His supporters argue that Lebanon's dire condition requires just that sort of toughness. Opponents claim that he is a fierce political animal dedicated to narrow sectarian aims...
Finance Secretary Jesús Silva Herzog exuded a somewhat forced air of confidence as he addressed his countrymen last week. Like a terminal-ward doctor polishing his bedside man ner, he likened Mexico's economy to a "sick patient" who required different treatments as his condition fluctuated...