Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he surprised the world by ordering Argentine troops to seize the Falkland Islands two weeks ago, President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri, 55, enhanced his image at home as a bold and decisive leader. It was a daring stroke by a man who has some times been underestimated by his countrymen. During the ill-fated administration of Eduardo Viola, Galtieri quietly engineered the "retirement" of two rival generals and replaced them with men loyal to him self. The move assured Galtieri's path to the presidency last December. A military man who states his views explicitly with few ifs, ands...
...sudden prospect of an all-out military victory cheered Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's countrymen at a time when the government appears to have finally consolidated its powers. Until recently, political stability seemed beyond reach. Power struggles had racked virtually every sector of the government, and the economy was on the brink of ruin. An assassination campaign by leftist Mujahedin guerrillas claimed the lives of nearly the entire top tier of the government last year. Most costly of all has been the war with Iraq, which bled off $7 billion, or an estimated 17% of the government's annual...
...trenches swinging West German G3 and Soviet Kalashnikov rifles and Soviet antitank rocket launchers. Screaming "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great), they charged the advancing Iraqis and were quickly locked in savage hand-to-hand combat. Meanwhile, the Iranian regular army commander, startled by the untimely appearance of his fanatic countrymen directly in his line of fire, was obliged to redirect his guns to the rear of the enemy formations in order to avoid killing fellow Iranians...
...ideology in whose name he had prevailed. In fact, in attempting to inflict upon his country the tour de force of a lasting revolution, he reawakened the historical Chinese yearning for continuity. By a remarkable irony, the leader who seems to have survived in the hearts of his countrymen is not the epic giant who made the Chinese revolution but his more anonymous disciple Chou Enlai, who worked unobtrusively to assure the continuity of life rather than the permanence of upheaval. In February 1973, however, Mao towered above everyone...
...consumer and manufacturer. He wants his products not only to look better than the competition but also to work better. Many critics see in Giugiaro the successor to Raymond Loewy (Pennsylvania Railroad locomotives, Pepsodent toothpaste packaging) as the world's leading industrial designer. When Giugiaro was 21, admiring countrymen were already calling him "Geniaccio" (Little Genius...