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Alas, it was all in vain. The night after the election, it was clear that the Fianna Fáil, which has ruled Ireland for 35 of the past 41 years, had been narrowly defeated by a new coalition of the conservative Fine Gael (United Ireland) and the socialist Labor Party. "There is no use playing politics," an exhausted Jack Lynch told the country on television at 2 a.m. "I don't think we are going to form a government...
...Prime Minister will be Liam Cosgrave, 52, leader of the Fine Gael and a Minister in two previous governments. The mild-mannered son of the first head of government of the Irish Free State, Cosgrave, in the words of one independent politician, "has one of the cleanest pairs of hands in Irish politics...
...Lynch threatened to go to the country on a law-and-order ticket if the legislation should be defeated. But when news of Dublin's bombings struck, the parliamentary opposition crumbled quickly, averting a crisis. Of two opposition parties, labor voted against Lynch's bill but Fine Gael decided to abstain and the government won easily, 70-23 on the toughest measures taken so far in the republic to put down the I.R.A...
...GAEL GREENE, restaurant critic for New York magazine and author of Bite, a guide to dining...
...poetry, flowers -depending on how lyrical or sensual one chooses to be. "Wine can be likened to a living being," say Hurst Hannum and Robert S. Blumberg in The Fine Wines of California. "It thrives on proper care and can turn against those who mistreat it." Restaurant Reviewer Gael Greene, not completely seriously, pronounces Gallo Hearty Burgundy "as refreshing as a 17-year-old lifeguard on the Fourth of July...