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...Merry Easter...
...Forum, a promised blueprint for the future of the troubled land. Unfortunately, the forum's call for new solutions had already evoked a curt dismissal. Early that morning, Dublin residents awoke to find posters slapped on the city's central post office, the scene of the 1916 Easter rebellion against British rule. The uncompromising message: ULSTER IS BRITISH...
David had tried, off and on for years, to get free of drugs. Not long ago he completed a course of treatment at St. Mary's Rehabilitation Center in Minneapolis. Just before the Easter weekend, David flew down to Palm Beach to spend the holiday with his ailing 93-year-old grandmother Rose and other members of the family, including Caroline Kennedy. He did not stay at the oceanside Kennedy winter mansion on North Ocean Boulevard, but checked into a $150-a-night room at the Brazilian Court Hotel, a rambling three-story place five miles away...
...seemed to be a quiet stay. David visited his grandmother every day and went to Mass with the family on Easter Sunday. By most accounts, David behaved himself. Said Hotel Owner Dennis Heffernan: "He swam more than once every day. I would see him three or four times a day. He did have a few drinks at the bar, but no more than anyone else, not an unusual amount. I never saw him take a misstep, never saw him stagger or anything...
What started in anguish ended in fury. After an Easter week of vacationing on the beach, Dominicans returned to work Monday to find that the government had sharply raised the prices on most of their basic foods. Bread rolls went up to 5? from 2½?, milk from 45? a quart to 55?, sugar from 26? per lb. to 31?. Several opposition groups immediately organized demonstrations across the country to protest the increases, which were instituted under the government's new austerity program. But their protests rapidly got out of control...