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...British government study released in February concluded that since 1969 such intimidation, mainly directed against Catholics, has caused at least 60,000 of Greater Belfast's 500,000 people to abandon their homes for safer -meaning segregated-neighborhoods. Even Belfast's housing authorities now recommend that "stray" families be moved away from "alien" neighborhoods. The Hamiltons and McCartans have had more than enough. "We're all thinking of leaving," said a male survivor at the funeral of John Hamilton...
...month, the S.N.P. has not yet won over a majority of Scots. Instead of independence, many would be satisfied-and may indeed prefer -the formation of a Scottish parliament operating within the framework of continuing union with England. Most important, nobody can reasonably expect the British to abandon North Sea oil, which Westminster sees as the basis for solving its own economic woes...
...January alone, asked the CAB for permission to discuss combining a number of its routes with TWA, which lost $21 million in January. The request raises antitrust complications and will have to be cleared by the Justice Department. If approved, the partial merger likely would allow Pan Am to abandon some foreign cities now served by both lines-London, Paris, Rome, Frankfurt and Lisbon-and pool its revenues with TWA on other international routes. TWA professes "interest" in the idea, and Vice President George Burns raises the possibility that TWA planes might fly someday with Pan Am stewardesses...
American involvement in Vietnam has gone underground but the light at the end of the tunnel, which Westmoreland, Eisenhower and so many others finally admitted they could not see, is still a long way off. And the light will continue to be until Martin and the Nixon administration abandon their efforts to adhere to the rigid dicta of the fifties' anti-communism and the pocket-book interests of American corporations and military factions...
...physicist of note once told me that he found he had an overpowering urge to abandon a project of psychic research (concerned with reverse time) just when he felt that he was near a breakthrough. He had a panicky need to back away from the abyss before he was forced to confront its terrifying implications. He said: "I was scared witless that I was about to look into the face...