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...onetime reputed chief of staff won't have the police to bad-mouth any more. Long suspected of directing bombings across Ireland and Britain while also operating as one of the main spokesmen for Sinn Fein, the group's political wing, McGuinness, 56, used his veteran's status over the weekend to propose that a special Sinn Fein convention support Northern Ireland's police force for the first time in the party's - or Ireland's - history...
...late Sir Roger Hollis, onetime head of Britain's counterintelligence service, M15, really a Soviet mole? Did the supersecret agency plot against the government of Labor Prime Minister Harold Wilson? These are some of the juicier questions reportedly raised in Spycatcher, a memoir by Peter Wright, who worked as an agent for M15 from 1955 to 1976. The book, which has not been released in Britain, has raised a furor because London has blocked publication of excerpts by invoking national security considerations...
...said Sir William de Tracy when he stepped forward at the end of T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral to tell why he and three other loyal servants of Britain's King Henry II had just carried out the poisonous wish implicit in the King's angry question, "Will nobody rid me of this turbulent priest...
...center of the turmoil was Guinness PLC, brewer of Ireland's national beer and one of Britain's oldest (founded in 1759) and most respected firms. Following an announcement that the department of trade was examining unspecified "circumstances suggesting misconduct" connected with the company, Guinness share prices dropped precipitously. A record 19 million shares changed hands on Monday alone, at one point wiping nearly $500 million off the company's market value. By Friday the stock closed at $4.13 a share, off more than 12% for the week...
First in this new voice was 1983's Brighton Beach Memoirs, an ultimately comforting but nonetheless troubled vision of Simon's boyhood during the late 1930s. The show accumulated honors: the New York Drama Critics Circle prize for best play, a hit production at Britain's National Theater that transferred last week to London's West End, and a film version, also written by Simon, that opens nationwide in the U.S. on Christmas Day. Next Simon wrote 1985's Biloxi Blues, an astringent look at World War II Army recruits (including himself) whose macho bravado often obscured a lack...