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...Hall last week, behind a table covered with the Union Jack, to sign his name to "Ulster's Declaration," which he had composed. It pledged allegiance to Queen Elizabeth on the part of Northern Ireland Protestants - and promised a fight against "the conspiracy hatched at the Thatcher-Haughey Dublin summit." The "conspiracy" to which he referred was last December's Dublin summit between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Prime Minister Charles J. Haughey...
...Maurice Chevalier, and most of them are worth a story or two. Mayes treated them with amused kindness, helped them through personal crises and paid them well, even for that golden age of magazines: $10,000 per short story for Somerset Maugham; a Ford station wagon shipped to Dublin for Waugh. Today Mayes rails against magazines for being parsimonious and tells his younger colleagues: "Publishing would be nothing but another business if it weren't for the editors who give it some semblance of a profession...
...doubting their eventual return to their native countries. But for some, the pressures of raising children who become steeped in American culture and prosperity delay their return. James and Carol Keaty point to their son, who wears a Patriots cap, and say they intend to return to their native Dublin in ten or fifteen years. James Keaty's reasons for immigration are hardly specific--"I came to see if I liked the place and I'm still here"--but he expresses a very specific purpose for his naturalization: "to vote for Kennedy next time...
...strike was not halted by any secret deal. At a summit meeting in Dublin earlier this month Thatcher and Haughey had agreed on how to proceed. The striking prisoners were then sent a 32-page British position paper that made it clear that London would never grant them political status. The document, however, did indicate that Britain was prepared to consider prison reforms once the fast had ended. There was a hint that some of the strikers' other demands -such as the right to wear civilian clothes -might in the end be granted...
...joined the fast, and thousands of supporters staged protest marches and torchlight rallies in Catholic districts of Belfast and Londonderry. On Saturday, nearly 25,000 demonstrators, led by Catholic Activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, a onetime member of Britain's Parliament from Ulster, turned out for a march in Dublin. But the British government remained unmoved. "If those people continue with their hunger strike, it will have no effect whatsoever," said Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. "It will just take their own lives, for which I will be profoundly sorry, because I think it's a ridiculous thing...