Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That Europeans have qualms about further action against Iran was made very clear to Vance. Britain fears that additional economic retaliation might cause its embassy in Tehran to be attacked next. The British government has considered many options on the crisis, said a high official, but "you wind up rejecting most of them because they could endanger the hostages or lead to the taking of more hostages." West German officials warned that if the crisis turned into an economic war that involved other Middle East oil producers, the U.S. might lose its present worldwide support...
Indeed, one of the reasons for Lynch's resignation was his willingness after the Mountbatten assassination to cooperate with the British in efforts to assist the cause of peace. He allowed some cooperation between Irish and British security forces, including an agreement that permitted British helicopters to fly into a small area of Irish airspace in search of terrorists. He treated the Fianna Fáil aim of political unity for all of Ireland as a distant ideal rather than an immediate goal. To some party members, that was heresy...
...like both peacemaker and patriot. "I'm tinged with green, all right," he conceded, but added firmly: "I condemn the provisional I.R.A. and all their activities." Yet his stance on Ulster's future was clearly hawkish: re-unification "is my primary political priority." On cooperating with the British, Haughey said that Ireland's own forces are "totally capable of dealing with security matters." He dismissed as "inadequate" Britain's latest proposals to end the Ulster violence, including an all-party conference of Catholic and Protestant leaders. Small wonder that the news from Dublin left London fearful...
...idea of using womb sounds to calm unruly newborns was first explored by the British and Japanese but did not hit the commercial big tune until Entrepreneurs Bob Bissett and Marie Shields teamed with Fort Lauderdale Obstetrician William Eller in 1975. Eller selected as their recording artist a nonsmoking, well-nourished pregnant woman, waited until she began labor and then inserted a tiny microphone through her dilated cervix into her uterus...
...Beatles fell prey to divisiveness, disarray. The Rolling Stones traveled fast, turned gangrenous. The Who kept its distance, stayed strong by staying stubborn, contentious. Buoyed by the great breaking wave of British rock during the '60s, the group managed to swim clear. "We've sometimes been able to hide behind bands like the Beatles and the Stones, who got so much flak," Townshend says. "Yet we were significantly stronger than other contemporaries. Stronger in live performance, for example. And much more daring with material...