Word: belfast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third wife, Actress-Model Cristina Ferrare, 32 (he is 57). Impatient with the corporate world's slow decision making, he had quit GM to race down a faster track. He had persuaded Britain's frugal government to give him $156 million and used it to turn vacant land outside Belfast into an ultramodern auto factory site in just 2½ years. When his flashy De Lorean sports cars failed to sell, his company edged toward bankruptcy. But these antics only made more headlines and added to the De Lorean myth and mystery...
Hollywood may still put DELOREAN had financed a scheme to peddle 220 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated $24 million. Apparently the substantial profits were to be used to bail out DELOREAN's Belfast-based company which was in desperate need of financing. But just hours before the arrest, the British government, which had poured $160 million into the sports car venture, announced that it would permanently close the assembly plant in Northern Ireland, So DELOREAN's crazed, last ditch effort to save his firm would not have succeeded, even had he not been caught...
...Mabrey and new Assistant Coach Brooke Watson flew into Shannon. After a day of rest, the team began a hectic schedule of traveling, afternoon practices, and night games. The first stop was Cork, and from there they traveled to Dublin for a few days. A three-day stint in Belfast followed, then on to Causeway and back home...
That phrase might have served on Churchill's coat of arms. Back home, in Parliament, he became a master of publicity. Violence in Belfast surrounded his preachings for Irish home rule. Even his worst notions drew attention. He offered a bizarre plan to incarcerate and sterilize the mentally ill. "Feebleminded girls," he said, "are the easy prey of vice and hand on their own insanity with unerring and unfailing fertility." The scheme was unworkable; the controversy precedented...
Three hours after the Hyde Park blast, a terse and chilling telex message arrived in the offices of several newspapers in the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast. Said the cable: "The Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for today's bomb attack on members of the Household Cavalry. The Irish people have sovereign and national rights which no occupation force can put down." The I.R.A. action was the most dramatic on British soil since last October, when two persons were killed and 38 wounded in a similar bombing outside Chelsea Barracks. It was the most stunning incident of terrorism since...