Word: countrymen
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...Most of Hada's countrymen seem to share his optimism. While he is speaking, young men holding red and white flags - the flag of the Nepali Congress, one of the leading political parties of the country - jump in to a pickup truck, and shout: "Long live democracy!" In a little while, they will join the drive towards Kathmandu, like several thousands of people who are pouring into the capital to celebrate their victory over the King. The roads towards Kathmandu, just a day ago deserted due to the curfew, are now jammed with noisy pickup trucks, buses, and cars draped...
...thousands of Indians who came to this country legally. I waited for a green card for five years, filed multiple forms, paid taxes and abided by all the rules and laws. Millions of my countrymen are still awaiting a green card (let alone citizenship) after many years because they have followed the law. How fair is it to grant citizenship to people who entered illegally while legal immigrants have to wait to become Americans? It seems that it is advantageous to break the law in the U.S. The only solution is to let illegals remain and keep working...
...some ways their hemisphere's economic future may depend on whether they can fix what is broken here. Bush met with Fox three times in his first 100 days, blowing away the old once-a-year tradition. Fox dreams of a day when the border will open and his countrymen will no longer flee to survive. As Fox told Ernesto Ruffo, his top aide on the region, "Put holes in the border...
...they are fighting one now. Their assessments largely accord with those of U.S. military intelligence: that while rival death squads roam unchecked, for now civil war is in no one's interest but al-Zarqawi's. Militants on both sides say U.S. forces remain a bigger enemy than their countrymen. "The elements for civil war are all there," says a senior U.S. military-intelligence officer, "but this society is complex, and it still hasn't generated self-sustaining sectarian strife...
...Belarus's President Alexander Lukashenko continues his brutal crackdown against protesters opposed to his internationally condemned fraudulent election victory, Europe's last dictator seems to some observers to be running scared; he only showed his face to his countrymen on Tuesday, and has already postponed his previously planned inauguration this coming Friday. But if Lukashenko is indeed feeling increasingly painted into a corner, perhaps he can take comfort from recent elections in nearby Ukraine, where at least one-third of the electorate retain strong support for the same post-Soviet Moscow-favored autocratic leader the voters rejected just 16 months...