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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a two-pulse burst of light flashed in the atmosphere over the remote southern seas off South Africa on Sept. 22, a U.S. Vela reconnaissance satellite registered the intensity and transmitted the data back to earth. After a month of scrutiny, the U.S. Government surmised that the light may...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Superbolt? | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

However, noting that the burst of light was not followed by any detectable radiation, as presumably would have been the case after a nuclear detonation, scientists have since been asking whether the flash was not in fact the result of some freakish natural phenomenon. Could it have been caused by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Superbolt? | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Force it has been, on both sides. In the time since the Pope's visit, eleven have died in the unending violence. Though the number of active I.R.A. members remains small-600 to 700, against 30,000 British troops and police-their lightning ambushes have grown even harder to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: A New Effort for the North | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

The British response has been to tighten security and try again for a political solution to the Ulster conundrum. Margaret Thatcher's Tory government has installed a trio of new commanders in Northern Ireland, headed by Britain's famed spy master, Sir Maurice Oldfield, as supreme "security coordinator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: A New Effort for the North | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Part of Lynch's mission to the U.S. is to discourage Irish Americans from misguided sentimentality toward the I.R.A. Though contributions have been cut in half since 1976, U.S. aid to the I.R.A. still amounts to about $350,000 a year, and it can come in very lethal forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: A New Effort for the North | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

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