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France and Britain have lodged diplomatic protests with Pretoria criticizing the new curbs on press freedom. So have most major news organizations. CBS News Anchorman Dan Rather, who is chairman of the freedom of information committee of the Television and Radio Working Press Assoc., urged Botha to rescind...
...year-old Hillsborough Castle, twelve miles to the south of Belfast. There they signed an agreement giving the Irish government an official voice in the running of Northern Ireland for the first time. In return, the FitzGerald government strongly recognized the desire of Ulster's Protestants to remain under Britain's wing...
...created conference will reinforce British-Irish efforts to combat terrorism and will attempt to improve relations between the predominantly Protestant security forces and the Catholic community. It will delve into legal matters, perhaps proposing that courts handling security cases be made up of judges from Ireland as well as Britain. It will even deal with such relatively minor but deeply emotional matters as the longstanding ban on the flying of the Irish flag in the province. Such concessions to the Catholic minority are certain to prove unsettling to the Protestants, who are skeptical about British assurances that there will...
Though British officials had gone to considerable lengths to downplay the significance of the event, the summit agreement reverberated across Britain and Ireland like a distant explosion. The straightforward language of the accord raised as many fears as it did hopes. Said Professor John A. Murphy, a history teacher at University College, Cork: "There is no grand solution. You can only make incremental moves. This seems to be a courageous one. It's the first time a role for the south has been formally recognized [in Northern Ireland] since 1925. This has to be a dramatic development...
...likely to increase. Viet Nam is said to want the MIA problem solved as a first step toward restoring official relations with the U.S. and establishing economic ties. Washington insists that it will not consider sending an ambassador to Hanoi until Viet Nam withdraws its troops from Cambodia. BRITAIN Time to Go off the Clock...