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...star is presumably recuperating from the rigors of his recent Dirty Harry and Play Misty for Me. In the title role, Eastwood is the leading maverick of Sinola, N. Mex., a town in the grip of a land war between the Anglo settlers and disgruntled Mexicans, led by a firebrand named Luis Chama (John Saxon...
What about the argument of Catholic Firebrand Bernadette Devlin that there could be a natural political alliance linking deprived Protestants and Catholics alike? Some day, concedes Fogel, but settling scores comes first. "I make no bones about it. If any people who look to me for protection are found with a bullet in their head or a bullet in the back, the consequences will be the severest I can imagine. I cannot allow people to go unavenged...
Philipp Scheidemann, the Social Democratic Party's deputy leader, was having a bowl of potato soup in the Reichstag dining room when he was told that the Kaiser had abdicated and that Karl Liebknecht, the left-wing firebrand, was about to proclaim Germany a Soviet republic. To head him off, Scheidemann hurried to a balcony and shouted to the crowd below: "Workers and soldiers. The cursed war is at an end. The Emperor has abdicated . . . Long live the German Republic!" That night, over a secret line from GHQ in Belgium, came a message for the Socialist leaders from...
...entire page of messages of sympathy, many from interned I.R.A. fighters. An estimated 2,000 mourners-including black-bereted I.R.A. fighters and uniformed girls of the Fianna na Eireann, a sort of junior I.R.A.-marched in the funeral cortege, while another 3,000 watched from the sidewalks. Civil Rights Firebrand Bernadette Devlin, who had been sentenced in absentia the day before to six months in jail for taking part in an illegal march in February (but still had 14 days to appeal), turned up to march in the procession...
Curiously, one Ulster M.P. who said not a word was firebrand Catholic Bernadette Devlin. In the Commons, reported TIME Correspondent Honor Balfour, "she slumped like the dormouse in Alice on the Labor benches, and merely watched the proceedings through her spaniel hair...