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Thatcher's voice took on a harder edge as she attacked the terrorist tactics of the Irish Republican Army. Without referring directly to her own close call last Oct. 12, when an I.R.A. bomb ripped through the Brighton hotel where she was staying, the British leader warned that Americans should not "be misled into making contributions to seemingly innocuous groups," an obvious reference to the Irish Northern Aid Committee (NORAID), a U.S. organization with suspected links to the I.R.A...
Fortune proved kinder to Margaret Thatcher, who had just left her bathroom in a Brighton hotel when an I.R.A. bomb demolished four floors of the hotel and damaged the spot where she had been standing minutes before. Terrorism came of high-tech age that night; the explosives had apparently been planted under the floorboards weeks earlier and detonated by a microchip timer...
...delegates who gathered in Dublin's 18th century Mansion House for the annual conference of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, were exuberant. Reason: the I.R.A.'s success in planting the Brighton hotel bomb that last month almost killed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and left four people dead and 34 injured. "Far from being a blow against democracy," thundered Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams from a platform flanked by huge posters of the devastated hotel, "it was a blow for democracy." Adams termed the bombing "an inevitable result of the British presence...
...time stand-in for Mathew Brodcrick on Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoris, Jon Cryer does his best comic work alone. "I once heard it said that if y ou stand in one place long enough, the world will pass you by. It's not true." "Have a girl, Chuck?" asks his "uncle" Ken, mom's live-in. "No thanks," he replies. "I'm full." Do all kids talk to their parents this way, mom asks, "I don't know. Most kids are too stoned to talk at all." And so on, Co-stars Peter Frenchettle, Jeffrey Tambor...
...I.R.A. considers itself at war. But politicians are not supposed to be involved in the fighting. They send other poor sods to do that. The I.R.A. has shown that politicians can actually come under fire. Shocking though it was, the Brighton bomb will have achieved a good end if, through fear, it forces the British government and Irish politicians to come to terms at last...