Word: defunction
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When William Craig, 49, was Minister of Home Affairs in the defunct Unionist government at Stormont in 1968, he ordered the Royal Ulster Constabulary to halt the first civil rights march by Roman Catholics through Londonderry. That decision contributed to the five years of violence that soon followed. It also launched "King Billy" Craig, now head of the Vanguard Unionist Party, on an unrelenting war on behalf of Northern Ireland's Protestants. Throughout "the troubles," his line has had a one-track consistency: Ulster, he believes, faces a takeover by the Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland and this...
...MANY OTHER Cambridge art galleries, the only remnants of their existence are defunct listings in the Yellow Pages. The shop which used to house Perspectives on Mass Ave. is now a crafts shop. The Paul Shuster Art Gallery on Mt. Auburn St. is now a photograph enlarger, the Big Picture...
...news: wholesale prices rose at a clip that threatened soaring prices for manufactured goods in months to come, and Ford Motor Co. raised prices on its 1974-model cars and trucks-even though it had signed an agreement not to do so. The Government's soon-to-be-defunct Cost of Living Council seemed powerless to stop the rise. Only the Federal Energy Administration appeared capable of vigorous anti-inflationary action. It accused Gulf Oil Corp. of inflating the price of imported crude oil and passing part of the overcharge along to U.S. consumer-a complaint that if sustained...
...friends he had met at Vacaville and was given haven by Patricia Soltysik. Joined by Black Convict Thero Wheeler, who escaped from Vacaville five months later, the group founded the S.L.A. They recruited no more than 25 known supporters, among whom were alumni of the Black Panthers and the defunct Maoist revolutionary group called the Venceremos ("We shall conquer") who were dissatisfied because those groups were too moderate for them. Some FBI and police investigators have theorized that DeFreeze is actually only a figurehead and the group is really directed by the white women, perhaps led by Nancy Ling Perry...
Meanwhile, students continued to bring political protest into the operations of the University, and as a result official student-Faculty relations deteriorated. On March 25, 150 students stormed into a closed meeting of the Student-Faculty Advisory Committee, a now-defunct group that was the predecessor of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life, where President Pusey talked about keeping ROTC on campus. Some liberal Faculty members at the meeting asked the protesters to leave, just as other Faculty liberals at the Paine Hall sit-in had done...