Word: countrymen
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...Fernàndez adds that Washington needs to recognize that leaders like Chàvez, Lula and Morales are products of genuine democracy; unlike the dictators and élitists of Latin America's past, they come from the same ethnic, social and economic backgrounds as the majority of their countrymen. Morales, for example, is Bolivia's first President to hail from its indigenous people. "Perhaps for the first time in the region's history, those who govern actually look like those being governed," Fernàndez says...
...this distinction on Thursday when she meets Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah. Advisers to the Palestinian leader told TIME that despite his feud with Hamas following its ouster of his own militia in Gaza, Abbas cannot publicly accept Israel's turning the lights off on those of his countrymen unlucky enough to live in Gaza. Such an action would also make it even more difficult to persuade already wavering Arab states to attend President Bush's proposed November peace conference with Israel...
...hesitancy when he spoke of the stakes in Iraq. "The choices that we make now, whether to build on the success of the surge and fight for additional gains," he said, "or whether to set a date for American surrender in Iraq, will affect the security of all our countrymen for decades to come...
...pointy end. If that happens, calls to revise the laws to give the attacking side more room will be hard for the game's guardians to ignore. With days to go, the signs point to a close-fought event; but to the relief of the All Blacks' hard-marking countrymen, they also suggest that a historical anomaly - and a nation's frustration - are about to be dispatched...
...troops to buck up when he began his surprise three-day visit Sunday. After all, Paris opposed the U.S.-led war against Saddam Hussein, with warnings of dire consequences that have mostly come to pass. So what was Kouchner's purpose in the Iraqi quagmire that most of his countrymen look to with "we told you so" dismay? In large part, to send the clear signal to Washington that France is determined to continue mending diplomatic relations that deteriorated, in large part, over Iraq...