Word: birmingham
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...joined hard-line Protestants in the assembly to block Trimble’s return. Yesterday, other loyalists attempted a legal objection to a planned re-vote, which has been rejected by the High Court in Belfast. Nationalist extremists, meanwhile, exploded a bomb on Saturday night in the heart of Birmingham, designed to kill innocent civilians. The desperate attempts by hard-liners on both sides to throw the peace process off track must not be allowed to succeed...
...complaint was sent to Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72, House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran, Acting Governor Jane M. Swift and Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin. If the House-passed redistricting becomes law, the complaint will likely become a lawsuit within a month...
...training four of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots. Khalid al-Fawwaz, wanted in the U.S. for his alleged role in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Africa, faces his last appeal against extradition this month. "Britain has been too tolerant," argues Jorgen Nielsen, professor of Islamic Studies at Birmingham University. That may be so, but the question is whether the country can be tolerant and anti-terrorist at the same time...
...Birmingham did not return repeated calls for comment...
Barrios has not signed on the dotted line yet, but on Saturday, he said he had talked to Mass. State Sen. President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72, who currently holds the spot. Birmingham is widely expected to make a run for governor in 2002. Barrios said he expects Birmingham to announce his plans formally by the end of the year...