Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visit outright at the request of police, even though some security experts feared that the move could inspire fresh I.R.A. revenge attacks in England. Noted an angry Ulster Protestant: "The Sinn Fein are not allowed to walk the streets of London, but they can walk the streets of Belfast with impunity...
...from an onslaught of perhaps 700 creditors. At week's end an Ohio-based company, Consolidated International Inc., reached agreement with British officials to buy some 1,000 unsold cars in Ulster for about $15 million, and secured an option to purchase the $75 million DMC facility near Belfast. There, at least, De Lorean's stainless-steel dream remains an object of pride: last week one of the cars was put on display in the Ulster Folk Museum...
...sawed-off shotgun, and shot Wright twice in the chest. The Irish National Liberation Army, a Marxist splinter group of the outlawed pro-Catholic Irish Republican Army, claimed responsibility for the attack. The next day James Molyneaux, leader of the Protestant Official Unionist Party, fled his headquarters in downtown Belfast minutes before a bomb planted by the INLA exploded. On the morning of the elections, Molyneaux barely avoided a fire bomb left by the same terrorist group on the windowsill of the house in which he was staying...
...outcome may not matter much, because, in a sense, the assembly was crippled from the start. Ever since British Prime Minister Edward Heath suspended the Protestant-dominated Parliament in Belfast in 1972, London has sought to restore a measure of self-government to the province. Under a plan prepared this year by British Secretary of State for Northern
greased lightning. What's more, he makes too many of them to sell. And where does he decide to do that but in Belfast, which needs another high-risk enterprise as much as it needs one more car bombing. The decision is baffling. Oh, one can argue that here was Black Jack De Lorean going against the tide again, betting other people's money and his life on the American rich getting richer and flocking to their very own indigenous Mercedes. But from the viewpoint of business horse sense, of which De Lorean is said to have...