Word: clark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even his friends have any clear idea how Chichester-Clark intends to govern. His one known political formulation is that he supports the "one man, one vote" demand of the Catholic opposition-but "not at the present time...
...knowing the recent bloody strife between Protestants and Catholics and the centuries-old heritage of hatred, could possibly say that about Northern Ireland? The answer was the Union Party leader and the brand-new Prime Minister, Major James Chichester-Clark, 46, who had won a Unionist Party caucus by one vote from a hard-lining Unionist, Brian Faulkner. Chichester-Clark last month resigned from the Cabinet of the previous Prime Minister, Terence O'Neill, thus helping to force O'Neill's resignation in the face of charges he was soft on Catholicism...
...Prime Minister is almost a parody of the ruling gentry class in Northern Ireland. His seat in the Stormont Parliament is virtually hereditary, having been held in succession by his grandmother and father. Educated at Eton, Chichester-Clark served in the Irish Guards and still carries in his left leg shrapnel fragments from the Anzio landing. He owns a 560-acre estate near Londonderry and enjoys gentlemanly pastimes like riding to hounds...
...seems an unknown quantity to his own Union Party, Chichester-Clark is regarded as an open book by his opponents. Fiery Bernadette Devlin, newly elected to the British Parliament, dismisses him as "just another squire." A student worker in civil rights grumbled that Chichester-Clark was "a hell of a name to paint on a banner." But the new man promises to provide reporters with choice copy. When a U.S. newsman asked if the recent riots were bad for tourism, Chichester-Clark reportedly replied: "I don't see why they should be. Anyway, why would an American tourist even...
Married. Maria Atalanti Livanos, 27, U.S.-born daughter of the late millionaire Greek shipowner George M. Livanos; and Stephane A. Cattaui, 32, French-Egyptian investment banker, vice president and Eurooean representative of Clark, Dodge & Co. Inc.; he for the second time; in a Greek Orthodox ceremony; in Manhattan...