Word: dublin
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...resignation. It is a tale of taps on journalists' phones, of a secret tape recording of a political discussion, apparent conspiracies and controversy involving high-ranking public figures. And then there is dogged investigative reporting and at least one "Deep Throat." Sound familiar? Well, yes, but this is Dublin 1983, not Washington 1973. The central character is former Prime Minister Charles Haughey; the scandal is Liffeygate, after the River Liffey that bisects Ireland's capital city...
Francis Farrelly Dublin...
Frank Herbert's Dune books dealt with life, war and death on a desert planet. The White Plague (Putnam; $14.95) is set on earth in the grim present. Molecular Biologist John Roe O'Neill, an Irish American in Dublin, sees his wife and children annihilated by an I.R.A. bomb. Vengeance becomes his spur. In a home laboratory he invents a new disease and releases the plague in three nations: Ireland, because his family died there; England, because of British oppression; and Libya, because it operates training schools for terrorists. The disease spreads so quickly that life itself...
...relations between Dublin and London have rarely been chillier: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has not forgiven Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey for trying to persuade other European nations to adopt a neutral stance during the Falklands war. Haughey, for his part, is angry that he was not consulted about Prior's plan and agrees with S.D.L.P. Leader John Hume that the assembly is "unworkable." After last week's elections, an idea that had meant to bind the wounds of a bloodied land instead seemed more likely to inflict fresh pain...
...launched a provocative $19 million network television ad blitz designed both to grab off a bite of the market from its larger archrival, McDonald's Corp. of Oak Brook, Ill. (1981 sales: $7.6 billion), and to steal a march on third-ranked Wendy's International Inc. of Dublin, Ohio (sales last year: $1.4 billion...