Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Hamilton, 46, was a Belfast Protestant working among fellow Protestants in the hard, exclusive domain of the shipyards. The father of one child, he lived a politically uneventful life with his wife Lily, who happens to be a Catholic. Two of their relatives were also stained by mixed marriages. That, apparently, was more than enough to make Hamilton and the rest of his family suspect...
...systematic terror began in October 1972, when Hamilton's nephew, James Patrick McCartan, a Catholic, was dragged from a wedding party by members of a still legal Protestant vigilante force, the Ulster Defense Association. A pathologist's report and the confession of his killer indicate that McCartan was taken to a U.D.A. where he was battered in the face with pick handles, stabbed repeatedly, then hoisted by his ankles to a roof beam and dropped head first to the floor below -all in an apparent effort to gain information. McCartan, his killer said, groaned out the names...
Head Wounds. Soon afterward, the family began receiving threatening letters. "Remember," said one, "sooner or later-all." Last March Hospital Guard David Glennon, 45, a Catholic cousin of Mrs. Hamilton, was found shot in the head. On New Year's Day, another Catholic cousin, John Whyte, 24, a laundry presser, was shot dead by a sniper. Lily Hamilton was saying good night to her brother, Noel McCartan, 26, a laborer, when a gunman fired two quick bursts and Noel fell dying in front...
...Hamilton was admitted to a hospital for shock, and she was still there one night last week when her husband headed nervously home from a local pub. Minutes later, John Hamilton was found dead a few yards from their doorstep, a single shot through the head...
...Assistant Lawrence Eagleburger, 43, and Press Aide George Vest, 55. He has be gun to pluck more talent out of the State Department to augment this group. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco, 54, the longtime Middle East expert, was persuaded to back out of a college presidency (Hamilton College in upstate New York) and was promoted to the No. 3 spot, Under Secretary for Political Affairs. The No. 2 job of Deputy Secretary is held by an able former Ambassador to Bonn, Kenneth Rush, 64, who oversees administration...