Word: carron
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...changing the criteria for classification--and over the type and amount of foreign information which is allowed to enter the country. They have categorized more films as "political propaganda" and prevented foreign speakers--visitors like the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende and Reverend Ian Paisley and Owen Carron, spokesmen for respectively the radical Protestant and Roman Catholic groups in Northern Ireland--with anti-American views from accepting invitations to speak at American universities. And The New York Times reported several weeks ago on yet one more infringement of rights--legally requiring a lifetime "prepublication review" of all manuscripts written...
...nation's thrift institutions-savings and loans and savings banks-are in perhaps the shakiest shape of all. Andrew Carron, a Brookings Institution economist, estimates that the 4,000 U.S. thrifts will lose $9 billion between 1981 and 1983, cutting their collective net worth in half, because they are paying high interest rates to attract deposits but collecting low interest on many old mortgage loans. Says New York State Bank Superintendent Muriel Siebert: "I can see 600 to 700 thrifts going down the drain this year, and maybe another 1,100 in 1983." The prospect appears to be causing...
...Carron was helped by the coincidence that only 50 minutes after the polls opened, Michael Devine, 27, became the latest prisoner in the Maze to die as the result of a hunger strike. Serving a twelve-year sentence for illegal possession of firearms, Devine was, like Sands and the other would-be martyrs, seeking treatment as political prisoners for the 700 I.R.A. members now held at the Maze. In Belfast and elsewhere, rioters subsequently attacked police and British troops with gunfire and bombs; at least 30 people were injured, including three soldiers and three Northern Irish policemen...
...Neither Carron's victory nor Devine's death was likely to soften Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's stand against the prisoner demands. Indeed, British authorities were encouraged when the family of 25-year-old Patrick McGeown, who had gone blind and suffered from severe head pains after 42 days without food, agreed to let doctors treat him. But some Catholics hoped that Thatcher might be influenced by a bold proposal from an unexpected quarter. In an editorial, London's Sunday Times, a pillar of the Establishment, argued that Britain should give up sovereignty over Northern Ireland...
...voters of Fermanagh and South Tyrone will not be represented in the House of Commons any more by Carron than they were by Sands, whose status as a prisoner prevented him from taking his seat. Carron does not plan to attend Parliament, or even draw his salary. Instead he will concentrate his activities in Ulster. Proclaimed the jubilant Carron after his victory: "The hunger strike will go on until the British government gives in to the demands of the prisoners...