Word: ils
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...party machinery of the Irish Republic's ruling Fianna Fáil (Soldiers of Destiny) had rarely run more smoothly. In northeast Dublin, its workers delivered scores of voters to polling places in a shuttle of buses. In the Rialto district, they assembled strange processions of the elderly and infirm who looked as if they could scarcely make it to the nearest park bench, much less to the ballot box. There was even a Spanish nun, a fervent supporter of Prime Minister Jack Lynch, who appeared at one Dublin polling place to vote for the local Fianna...
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...
...coalition's victory -by a thin but workable margin of about four seats in the 144-member Lower House or Dail-was probably the result less of specific issues than of a widespread feeling that after 16 straight years the Fianna Fáil had been in office long enough...
...full accord on how to deal with the I.R.A., and they have no quarrel with Jack Lynch's decision last fall to jail a handful of I.R.A. extremists. "I've been very strong on the internal security question for years, long before Fianna Fáil was," Cosgrave told TIME Correspondent Jordan Bonfante last week. The coalition's record on the I.R.A., adds O'Brien, is "more thoroughly consistent" than the former government's-meaning that the new regime will be just as tough as Lynch was and maybe tougher...
...spooks was Mahmoud Hamshari, 34, the P.L.O.'s principal representative in France. When he answered a telephone call at his Paris apartment one day last December, a bomb placed beneath the telephone table detonated. Badly maimed, Hamshari lived for a month before dying from his wounds. Wa'il Zuaiter, 38, whom Israelis have accused of planning assaults on El Al jets, was waiting for the elevator at his Rome apartment building in October when someone-Rome police have never determined who-came along and shot him twelve times at close range...