Word: brookeborough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardly the most auspicious omen for a visit by Prime Minister Heath to Belfast last week-his first since Ulster's provincial elections in June. Heath had billed his two-day visit-its ostensible purpose was to attend a memorial service for former Prime Minister of Ulster Lord Brookeborough-as a "stocktaking" trip, to find out why Ulster has not made more progress in figuring out a way to govern itself. In reality, it was probably closer to tail-kicking. The Prime Minister has carefully avoided making any threats that the British might withdraw their military forces from Ulster...
Died. Viscount Brookeborough, 85, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland from 1943 to 1963 and a staunch adversary of the Irish Republican Army; in Colebrook, Northern Ireland. Sir Basil Brooke until his elevation to the peerage in 1952, his refusal to bring the Roman Catholic minority into Northern Ireland's public affairs left his country with a legacy of strife that overshadows his positive achievements...
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