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Where did Boys Town get all its money? Mostly from $1 and $2 donations solicited twice a year, at Christmas and Easter, by the town's highly organized mailing campaign. Roughly 34 million letters go out each year explaining that Boys Town is a "City of Little Men" and that a small contribution "can help bring happiness to other homeless and unwanted boys." It is a simple poverty-pitch appeal, hardly consonant with Boys Town's present wealth. It was originally devised by Ted Miller, a membership solicitor for the Loyal Order of Moose, who joined Father Flanagan...
Following Whitelaw to Ulster were 600 more British troops, bringing the total number there to 15,000 men. They were sent to keep the peace during Ulster's traditional season of marching, which began last weekend with the Catholic commemoration of Dublin's 1916 Easter Rising, and ends with the Protestant parade of the Apprentice Boys of Derry in August...
...Berliners, West and East alike, it was indeed a beautiful day. For the first time in six years, the Wall-the concrete monstrosity that divides the city -was opened for visitors from West Berlin. The East German regime of Party Boss Erich Honecker had granted three-day Easter passes to West Berliners as an illustration of the freer access that will be allowed after the Big Four agreement on the city is put into action. Although it was a one-way deal -no East Berliners were allowed to visit the Western sector-West Berlin's Mayor Klaus Schiitz praised...
...Communists' Easter concessions were timed to place maximum pressure on West Germany to confirm the treaties of Warsaw and Moscow, which will be submitted to the Bundestag in early May. Unless Bonn ratifies the treaties, the Berlin agreement, and its clauses about freer access, will not go into effect. Hence, the East Germans and their Soviet supporters in effect were saying: "See, this is how it is going to be if the treaties are ratified. If they aren't, forget it." The Communists have hinted that the situation will get worse if Bonn fails to follow through...
...I.R.A. boldly declared Ireland a republic on Easter Mon day, but the "Easter Rising" was crushed by British troops...