Word: corrigans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams...
...strike was called at midnight Monday. Next morning, Protestant thugs in Belfast turned out to terrorize shopkeepers, block roadways and telephone anonymous threats to workers who went to their jobs. They poured sugar in gas tanks, fired shots at a school bus and bombed a rail line. When Mairead Corrigan, leader of the Women's Peace Movement, appeared to wage a counterprotest, they tore up her pacifist placards. Among the opponents of the strike who were subjected to "U.D.A. persuasion" was Thomas Passmore, the leader of the Protestant Orange Order in Belfast. Passmore, whose aged father had been shot...
...lead as the Continent's dominant economic power. Spain held its first free vote in 40 years; encouraged by popular King Juan Carlos, 94% of the voters approved a reform bill calling for the election of a bicameral legislature this spring. In Northern Ireland, Betty Williams, 33, and Mairead Corrigan, 32, both Catholics, won the admiration of the world by ignoring death threats and leading thousands of women, Protestants and Catholics alike, in massive demonstrations for peace...
...cold night last week, the twin-towered red brick façade of Oslo's city hall flickered in the glow of torches borne by thousands of demonstrators. Inside, an audience of more than 1,000 jammed the auditorium. To a standing ovation, Betty Williams, 33, and Mairead Corrigan, 32, co-founders of the Ulster Peace Movement (TIME, Sept. 6) arrived to accept the Norwegian People's Peace Prize...
Even the Nobel Peace Prize is not a high enough award for Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan of Belfast...