Word: gow
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Republican David Gow returned the challenge by citing what he called the Democrats' inconsistencies regarding such policies as trickle-down economics, the capital gains tax and free trade with other parts of the world...
...Britain last week the outlawed Irish Republican Army, as part of its stepped-up campaign beyond the borders of Northern Ireland, assassinated Ian Gow, a friend of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and a Conservative Member of Parliament, with a bomb that wrecked his Montego car in the driveway of his home. Three days earlier in West Germany, the Red Army Faction almost succeeded in killing Hans Neusel, State Secretary of the Interior Ministry and Bonn's top antiterrorist expert, in a similar attempt. The actions demonstrated that while their numbers may be dwindling, both the I.R.A. and the R.A.F...
...I.R.A.'s biggest score, though, was Gow, 53, Thatcher's parliamentary private secretary during her first four years in office and a passionate defender of Britain's constitutional ties to Northern Ireland. Although Gow's name was on a hit list of some 100 persons, the M.P. continued to give his address and number in the phone book. Under the cover of darkness, police deduced, a 4 1/2-lb. Semtex charge was attached to the bottom of Gow's auto while it was parked outside his 16th century home in the village of Hankham, in Sussex, 60 miles from London...