Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elitist view of greatness. Walesa is a completely different kind of hero: a common man who has taken his fling at changing history not by leading governments, winning great battles or writing books, but by embodying the hopes, faith, courage, even the foibles, of the vast majority of his countrymen...
...four killers of Sadat were fanatics, but not loners. Twenty other Muslim fundamentalists went on trial with them, and possibly hundreds more conspired. The West grieved, perhaps more than his countrymen did, for the loss of Sadat's vision and will. Yet the peace process he began, with an act of statesmanlike courage, struggles on under his discreet, cautious successor...
...easing tensions, try to reach a new understanding between the government and Solidarity. The church, a powerful and respected force in a nation that is more than 90% Catholic, would have to serve a mediating role. Jaruzelski might succeed with such a plan if he could somehow convince his countrymen that his real goal is one of national reconciliation and that his moves staved off a worse fate, namely a Soviet invasion. The drift last week, however, was in the direction of rising chaos, and the government appeared to be deeply concerned. When Warsaw radio first announced the casualties...
...head of state, his "sacred mission" to Jerusalem in 1977 to proclaim his willingness "to live in permanent peace and justice." The 1978 Camp David accords made him the only Arab leader to make peace with the Jewish state, but also made him anathema to many of his countrymen and culminated in his assassination...
...armed with Islamic zeal and a near fanatical belief that he was the heir to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's pan-Arabic nationalism, Gaddafi and eleven other young officers deposed the conservative King Idris in a bloodless coup. Gaddafi has since established iron political control of his countrymen, largely by spreading Libya's abundant oil wealth among them. Says Fouad Zlitni, a true believer: "The people decide everything, but it is the thoughts of Brother Gaddafi which guide us on to the proper path...