Word: britishers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clear reasons for the execution. I think it is unfortunate that anyone has to be killed, but the furor created by Mountbatten's death showed up the hypocritical attitude of the media establishment. As a member of the House of Lords, Mountbatten was an emotional figure in both British and Irish politics. What the I.R.A. did to him is what Mountbatten had been doing all his life to other people; and with his war record I don't think he could have objected to dying in what was clearly a war situation. He knew the danger involved...
...charge that the I.R.A. will eventually attack the Irish Republic: The main aim of this phase of the struggle is to remove the British [from Ulster] and to create conditions where the Irish people, in a united Ireland, can establish social democracy with complete control over their own destiny. The movement wants to see the creation of a decentralized socialist state. Obviously, even the term united Ireland means that the government that has been set up in the Republic must come down. The working-class majority from Ulster-Protestants and Catholics-don't simply want to be absorbed into...
...alternative to violence: Your country overthrew colonial rule because its people were forced to. Armed struggle is a response to what the Establishment is doing. The British soldiers come with weapons. They don't come and say, "Let's try to sort this out." Their political masters don't say, "Let's try some other...
...price gouging. The National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) demanded $50 per bbl. for some oil it put on the spot market and threatened that if its regular customers did not pay the price, NIOC would refuse to renew its supply contracts when they expire in December. Exxon, Shell and British Petroleum got telex notification from NIOC that their anticipated deliveries for the last three months of 1979 were being cut by approximately 5%. NIOC blamed "operational difficulties," but many oilmen suspected that the missing petroleum would soon enough turn up for sale on the spot market. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia...
...habits even left him free to perform a good deed; he married Thomas Mann's daughter Erika in order to get her out of Nazi Germany and safely under the protection of British citizenship. Auden later enlisted E.M. Forster in a campaign to persuade other homosexuals to perform such rescues...