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Died. John Aloysius Costello, 84, twice Prime Minister of Ireland and former leader of the conservative Fine Gael party; of cancer; in Dublin. After his surprise victory in 1948 over his longtime rival, Fianna Fail Leader Eamon de Valera, Costello quipped, "I feel rotten. Last Saturday I was a free man." But he energetically pursued his task, breaking Ireland's final constitutional link to Britain with the repeal of the External Relations Act. Costello lost the prime ministership to De Valera in 1951, won it back in 1954, lost it again in 1957 and quit politics...
...nation whose heroes have often been martyred failures, Eamon de Valera survived and succeeded. Through a defeated insurrection and a lost civil war, "Dev" struggled to free and unite the nation that had adopted him. When he died last week in Dublin, 92 and nearly blind, few of his countrymen could recall a time when De Valera's gaunt, beak-nosed visage was not a part of Irish political life...
...successful use of violence often adds to, rather than detracts from their claim to respectability. Thus it is quite possible, if an independent Palestinian state is ever established, that statues of Arafat will some day be erected in the plazas of Nablus, like the plaques and statues of Eamon de Valéra in Ireland and Emiliano Zapata in Mexico. The fact that the leader of the P.L.O. appeared at the U.N. showed that it is already becoming respectable in the eyes of much of the world. "Respectability depends on whose side you're on," says Oxford Historian Alastair...
Dartmouth led at the half, 14-3, on a Tom Snickenberger touchdown and two field goals, but the Big Red recovered a fumble on the Dartmouth ten at the start of the final period. Two plays later, Kevin Stigler threw eight yards to Eamon McEneaney, narrowing the margin...
...Eamon G. Taylor, S.J., dismissed O'Rourke from the Society of Jesus...