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...bright morning sun sparkled off the plumed metal helmets of the Blues and Royals troopers of the Queen's Household Cavalry as they left their barracks for the daily mounting of the guard at Whitehall. Resplendent in blue tunics, white buckskin breeches and silver-colored breastplates, the tips of their unsheathed swords jauntily resting on their right shoulders, the colorful 16-man troop trotted along Hyde Park's South Carriage Drive while admiring tourists lolled in the grass and snapped pictures. The cavalrymen never reached their destination. At 10:43, just as the regiment's scarlet...
Three hours after the Hyde Park blast, a terse and chilling telex message arrived in the offices of several newspapers in the Northern Ireland capital of Belfast. Said the cable: "The Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for today's bomb attack on members of the Household Cavalry. The Irish people have sovereign and national rights which no occupation force can put down." The I.R.A. action was the most dramatic on British soil since last October, when two persons were killed and 38 wounded in a similar bombing outside Chelsea Barracks. It was the most stunning incident of terrorism since...
Despite growing police pressure on I.R.A. terrorists in both Britain and Northern Ireland over the past year, authorities acknowledge the organization's continuing ability to stage spectacular attacks, especially during highly publicized ceremonial occasions. As Major General Desmond Langley of the Queen's Household Guards said: "We must do everything we can to stop I.R.A. attacks. But it is difficult because ceremonial duties are public, predictable, routine and totally nontactical. If we attempt to vary times and routes, we are not fulfilling our ceremonial function." At week's end the police had arrested no suspect...
Earlier this month, Procter & Gamble took its strongest action. It filed defamation suits against three persons who allegedly spread the rumors and advocated a boycott of Procter & Gamble products: an Atlanta man who works for a grocery-products distributor and a Pensacola, Fla., couple who sell competing household goods door to door...
...semianually ranks the major urban areas, using a weighted cost of living index that includes such items as food, household goods, utilities, alcohol, recreation and entertainment. This year's list contains some old favorites. Tokyo, last year's No. 1, is now in second place. There are also some surprises. Oslo, Djakarta and Baghdad reign as the third, fourth and fifth most expensive cities...