Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...participants could barely keep track of developments. The opposition never stopped to bask in celebration. Since its inception three weeks ago, the Civic Forum has emerged as the most single-minded and uncompromising opposition force in Eastern Europe. Last week, as the Communist leaders tried to mollify their countrymen, the Civic Forum kept up the pressure, meeting each new concession with more demands and deadlines...
...meantime, with its borders open to the West, the G.D.R.'s sense of self and of self-confidence may actually be strengthened, but only if democratization and liberalization move apace, if the Communist dictatorship is dismantled, and if the people can partake of the freedoms enjoyed by their countrymen on the other side...
...name yesterday," reported Newsday. "When the whole house is being sold off, it doesn't matter much that a cherished heirloom goes as well," sobbed the San Jose Mercury News. The Sacramento Bee carried a photo of "delighted" Japanese tourists gazing at the property now controlled by "their countrymen...
Expanding on the themes in his provocative new book, maverick legislator Shintaro Ishihara exhorts his countrymen to become assertive, especially in their dealings with...
Reflecting the new open-border policy, East German Defense Minister Heinz Kessler said yesterday that border guards who once shot at their fleeing countrymen, have been told not to use firearms any more in cases of border violations...