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...should be an emerald-green evening -St. Patrick's Day Eve at the White House with Ireland's Prime Minister John Lynch himself on hand for the jigs and songs. But it will also be Pat Nixon's birthday, and Daughter Tricia Nixon, 25, is planning to turn the shamrocks into orange blossoms with the announcement of her engagement to Harvard Law Student Edward Finch Cox, 24. The official word adds up to something less than real news; Tricia has been wearing his ring since Christmastime, and Eddie's curriculum vitae (he was once...
...president's office confirmed yesterday that the list of over 200 students had been given the FBI after the student newspaper, the Emerald, printed an article about...
Tourist brochures fancifully refer to it as the "eighth continent," a palm-fringed paradise of emerald bays, gleaming beaches and sybaritic hotels. Just beyond the thin strips of sand, however, lies a very different West Indian world, one of discontent and outright anger...
...largest island of an emerald archipelago 50 miles off the coast of South Viet Nam in the South China Sea. Sometimes called Poulo Con-dore after its Portuguese discoverer, the lush, Manhattan-size territory was made into a penal colony by the French in 1862 and became known as the Devil's Island of Southeast Asia, from which no one returned. But many did, including nearly all the current top leadership of North Viet Nam and several senior South Vietnamese statesmen who served time there under the French...
Canceled Leaves. Ulster has been a volatile quantity ever since King William of Orange's English troops crushed James II's Catholic legions in the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. That victory established Britain's hegemony over the Emerald Isle, which continues in Northern Ireland even though the South broke away and formed the Republic of Ireland in 1921. The Boyne also set a pattern of religious hostility over which Ulstermen are still ready to spill blood. Though the prolongation of so ancient a feud may be a puzzle to the 1,000,000 Protestants...