Word: countrymen
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...other installations. For Menem the timing could hardly have been worse. He knew that if he did not act fast, George Bush, who was in the midst of a South American goodwill tour, was likely to cancel his visit to Argentina -- to the deep embarrassment of Menem and his countrymen...
Even those few of Gorbachev's countrymen who have a kind word for him usually qualify it with some comment to the effect that he is yesterday's man. As usual, they exaggerate. But even if Gorbachev is, before our eyes, passing into history, he can be consoled by the company he will keep...
...influential Afrikaans weekly Vrye Weekblad. "Now it is seen rather as the point where Afrikaners became accepted as an African tribe and determined that they had a right to the soil." The survival of the nation will depend on whether Afrikaners fully accept that their black fellow countrymen share an equal right to the land of South Africa...
With the Soviet Union facing its most miserable winter since the end of World War II, Mikhail Gorbachev told his countrymen last week that he and the Communist leadership were "guilty before the working class" for his nation's food shortages. But what the Soviet people need these days are calories, not confessions...
...enough coffee, sugar, rice, powdered milk, cheese and canned meat to feed one person for two weeks -- were shipped to the Soviet Union. During a one-hour television broadcast called Helft Russland (Help Russia), which aired last week throughout Germany, Chancellor Helmut Kohl appealed for donations. Kohl reminded his countrymen that Gorbachev "helped us Germans on the way to unity in the last decisive months...