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...first official visit to Northern Ireland's battle zones, Heath was guarded like a U.S. President venturing into Viet Nam. Armed troops surrounded him everywhere he went in Belfast and Londonderry. Heath did not hide Britain's growing exasperation with Ulster's warring factions. Irish sufferings "haunt us day by day," he said. But what the British people "do not as yet find in Northern Ireland," he added, "is the will to make an effective and lasting peace." As Heath toured the province, the bombings and shootings went on. By week's end the three-year...
...that the public doesn't like what he said, so he changes it," says Collins. Asked what would worry her about McGovern as President, Virginia Brock, a Martinsville, Va., schoolteacher and Republican for Nixon replies: "The fact that he is indecisive." The taint of radicalism continues to haunt the Democratic challenger. Ronald Baker, an Arlington, Texas, helicopter assemblyman and Independent, finds McGovern "30 years ahead of himself. The country is too conservative to buy his goods right...
...parlor." Architects, historical societies and garden clubs bombarded state and federal officials with indignant letters. If the prison were built, said one, it would be "an affront to the past and an insult to the future." The area around such important houses as Boswell's Tavern, a supposed haunt of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Patrick Henry, required protection and preservation...
...Think" sign, he is dismissed for woolgathering. An executive boasts of an affair he was strong enough to resist. But after his wife's resulting diatribe, he is furtively making plans for consummation. A youth fears that his girl friend is pregnant. Nightmares of a shotgun wedding haunt him for weeks-until she assures him, "Everything is all right." "I was free-free! I turned, seized her in my arms and, in an ecstasy of gratitude, asked her to marry...
...this African city, the capital of Portugal's largest and richest colony. There is none of the tension that a visitor would expect to find in a country which has now seen continual guerrilla warfare for nearly 12 years. No soldiers march through the streets by day or haunt the city's bars by night...