Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overlapping litigation on behalf of Rodriguez and his countrymen grows more elaborate by the week. The matter may eventually be decided by the Supreme Court, or Congress could declare the prisoners permanent residents; many would remain in U.S. jails but be endowed with constitutional rights. As S. George Handlesman, a lawyer for 26 of the inmates, told TIME Correspondent Anne Constable: "They will be let go. The question is how and when...
...trans-Pacific relations. Only a week before his departure for the U.S., Suzuki allowed that he had been "bewildered" by Washington's decision to lift the grain embargo against the Soviet Union and angered by the American failure to consult his government "sufficiently in advance." Suzuki's countrymen were also outraged when a U.S. submarine in April collided with a Japanese freighter in the East China Sea and then inexplicably left it to sink and two crew members to die. The resolution of a third and longer-standing difference between the two nations was hammered out less than...
...loose confederation of German writers and publishers did as unlike their predecessors 300 earlier. As citizens, they looked on a divided, devastated nation; artists, they found their language by the murderous rhetoric the Nazis. They argued and dis literature and the writer's ability to heal his countrymen. They read manuscripts to each other and decided to convene annually, which they did for the next 20 years. They came to be known as Group 47; Grass joined them in the middle '50s and became the most talented and distinguished alumnus of them...
...have Americans, French, Germans and Japanese, as well as Wodehouse's fellow countrymen, bought some 30 million volumes of these comic fantasies, set in a neverland of unambiguous upper-class twits, where it is always a bright spring morning with nary a cloud of poverty, malice or lust? Analyzing Wodehouse is like trying to bisect a meringue. The whimsy of Blandings Castle and the Drones Club crumbles to the touch. Names like Freddie Threepwood, Oofy Prosser and Marmaduke Chuffnell lose by the listing...
Giscard's aloof and occasionally haughty personality clearly has not endeared him to many of his countrymen even if they respect his intellect-and, at times, his courage. Last week, as 'he stepped from a jet in Ajaccio, Corsica a bomb blast ripped through the airport terminal. An emotional Giscard denounced the attack as "cowardly" and vowed not to waver from his schedule. Such rare passionate moments aside, however, even one of the President's most trusted aides admits that "he has not won the hearts of Frenchmen. Giscard is from the Auvergne region, where the people...