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Last week's incidents brought the three-week death toll to 30. The tough "provisional" wing of the I.R.A. admitted responsibility for the electricity-board bombing and claimed it had given the board's management time to evacuate all employees. But to the firebrand Protestant extremist...
Born. To Bernadette Devlin, 24, Irish Catholic firebrand from the barricades of Bogside, who now has the dual distinction of being both the youngest member of Britain's Parliament and its first unwed mother: her first child, a daughter. Though still refusing to name the father, Bernadette bubbled, "I'm just like any other mother-I think my baby's beautiful...
After her firebrand activities on behalf of Northern Ireland's Catholic minority, Bernadette Devlin, 23, the youngest member of the British House of Commons, would hardly seem to need more publicity. Yet last week Bernadette, who is unmarried, went out of her way to disclose to the press that she expects a baby in the fall. She refused to name the father. "I do not expect it to be easy," she admitted, "some people might want to see me hide and sulk. Others might feel that they were owed some explanation. But my morals," she insisted, "are a private...
Sadat was the firebrand of the young officers' group that gathered around Nasser. His most spectacular idea was a plot to blow up the British embassy. Nasser talked him out of that. "I was always eager to step up the pace. But Gamal, a man of deliberation, acted as a restraining influence," Sadat once wrote. On the night of July 23, 1952, when the planners decided to move against King Farouk's corrupt regime, Sadat was nowhere to be found; he had gone to a movie in Cairo with his wife, Gehan. Eventually he received a message from Nasser, threw...
...Israelis themselves are extremely uncertain, and accordingly uneasy about the answers to those riddles. In Washington, a U.S. official wonders whether Sa dat is not being more shrewd than moderate. Recalling Sadat's youthful reputation as a firebrand, the official mused: "You can't shed all your ideas, beliefs, and habits of thinking overnight." British Arabist Desmond Stewart, author of the recently published, The Middle East: Temple of Janus, says, "Where Nasser was a pacifist who spoke in bellicose terms, Sadat is a bellicose man who talks in pacific terms." Sadat's performance up to now as President, however...