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...nothing to bring Ireland's Catholic South and Protestant North any closer to union. But they did produce an unprecedented concession from the British government: an invitation to the Irish Prime Minister to participate in tripartite discussions with Heath and Northern Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Faulkner over the critical situation in Ulster...
Paisley, the bombings were proof that Prime Minister Brian Faulkner's government had failed to provide stability and protection for Northern Ireland's "loyal"-that is, Protestant-majority. "As Ulster burns," charged Paisley, "Faulkner fiddles...
Powerful words, but probably a vain hope. Ulstermen were as preoccupied as ever with their ancient grievances as they waited to see what Brian Faulkner would do next to break the impasse. The answer will come next week if not before. By Sept. 8 he is required by law to decide how many of the 240 internees presently held on 28-day detention orders should remain in custody indefinitely...
...What's My Line?, Cerf the publisher had a shrewd eye for quality: Random House, now a subsidiary of RCA, helped break America's obscenity barrier by printing James Joyce's Ulysses in 1934, created a wide U.S. audience for such writers as Faulkner, O'Neill, John O'Hara and Sinclair Lewis...
Heath's icy reply to Jack Lynch hardly seemed designed to encourage the Dublin government to cut off the illegal supply of arms and men that seeps across the 200-mile border between south and north. But it may have served to strengthen Ulster's Prime Minister Faulkner, who has become increasingly vulnerable to the demands of his party's hardliners. As former Home Minister William Craig told TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast: "If Faulkner seems to make any more gestures of compromise, it'll bring the roof right down...