Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faced with the erosion of détente Schmidt is trying to strengthen his country's already formidable defenses-its 340,000-man army is considered by far the best in Western Europe-at a time when many of his countrymen think that it is hopeless even to think of opposing the Soviet juggernaut. NATO forces are outnumbered by the Warsaw Pact nations more than 2 to 1 in divisions, better than 3 to 1 in tanks and a frightening 8 to 1 in medium-range nuclear missiles. Logistics experts fear that NATO forces would start running short...
...Bartlett Giamatti, a Boston Red Sox fanatic, wrote thunderously on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times that the strike was "an act of defiance against the American people ... I appeal for it to cease. I do so as an American citizen." Those of Giamatti's countrymen who love baseball found themselves massively unedified by the collision of venalities that brought on the strike. Despite the sympathy the players may have attracted (they are correct in arguing that the owners are now simply trying to rob them of benefits that they had earlier won), most fans judged...
...kill me, I am not going back," he declares. "I am not going back to that life of nothing." The man is an inmate at Krome Avenue North Detention Center, in Dade County, Fla., a federal compound of tents and concrete barracks that holds 1,160 of his countrymen. They are among 13,000 Haitians who had the misfortune to arrive in the U.S. after Oct. 10, the Carter Administration's cut off date for immigration amnesty...
...grief was perhaps greatest in Poland. John Paul has been an inspirational force to his overwhelmingly Catholic fellow countrymen, who are struggling to liberalize their nation's Communist system without plunging it into anarchy. Acutely aware of the Pope's influence, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, President Henryk Jablonski and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski joined in a telegram wishing him a speedy recovery "so indispensable to fulfilling your mission in the service of the humanistic ideals of peace and the welfare...
...Warsaw, John Paul's countrymen first heard a mournful radio report that began, "We have sad news for you." In the hours that followed, as they gathered on street corners and prayed for the Pope's survival, Poland's state-controlled radio and television stations carried an unprecedented torrent of live news reports fed by satellite from the West...