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...father, Emmett Rice, was a governor of the Federal Reserve System. Her mother, Lois Dickson Fitt, is an academic scholar whose parents were born in Jamaica. Raised in a household that stressed education and public affairs knowledge, when Nixon resigned from office, a 9-year-old Rice was the one who told her parents the news...
...Irish Republican Army, picked up a seat. The winner, Gerry Adams, campaigned unashamedly in support of the "armed struggle" against British rule. He ended up polling 16,000 votes in his west Belfast district, 6,000 more than the constituency's highly esteemed Member of Parliament, Gerard Fitt, a Catholic. Adams has no intention of taking his newly won seat at Westminster: his party does not recognize Parliament...
...Having won over the Welsh, Callaghan and his lieutenants turned their attention to three of the twelve members from Ulster; most of the others were Protestant Unionists considered certain to vote with the Conservatives. The full weight of Labor lobbying came down upon Harold McCusker, Frank Maguire and Gerald Fitt. In the end, McCusker voted for the government, while Maguire and Fitt abstained. But Fitt, a Catholic who usually supported Labor, did so only after an anguished declaration of conscience that held the House in silence...
...larger channel. They cite letters he sent at the time to members of Congress declaring that the project was "only marginally justified." Added Resor: "The Tennessee-Tombigbee project continues to lack that margin of economic safety which typically marks federal investments in water resource development." But Al Fitt, who served as special assistant to Resor for civil functions (including Corps of Engineers' projects), submitted an affidavit to the court stating that his boss's memo was intended to approve the actual widening...
...moderate experiment, indeed, had given moderation itself a bad name. Last week the militant Protestants, who had led the general strike that brought down the Provincial Executive were still exulting. Ulster's Catholics, meanwhile, were nursing their resentments. "It's awful," said Catholic Party Leader Gerry Fitt, describing the tension between the two groups. "The slightest thing might...