Word: iras
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ARRESTED. IRA EINHORN, 57, peace-spouting hippie guru who escaped to Europe 16 years ago after fatally beating his former girlfriend and stuffing her mummified remains in a trunk; at his home in Champagne-Mouton, France. A favorite of Philadelphia's intelligentsia in the 1970s, Einhorn was convicted of first-degree murder in absentia in 1993. He faces extradition...
...varsity's win over Yale and Princeton was its second in three weeks. These three crews should lead the field at the IRA Championships, May 29-31, on the Cooper river in Camden...
LONDON: Labour's landslide election win has Irish Prime Minister John Bruton talking up peace prospects in Northern Ireland. Bruton called for an IRA cease-fire and urged the organization to take advantage of Labour's control of parliament to jump-start talks. "Here, the basic feeling is that there is a new sort of urgency and enthusiasm for trying to restart the peace process," reports TIME's London bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand. "After being elected last week, Blair seems willing to try new initiatives and arrangements which may bridge the impasse and get the parties talking. The huge majority...
...tale, which has been touring the country (and having its songs recorded) for a couple of years. But head of the class among the new arrivals is The Life, a dark, brashly entertaining musical about the seedy denizens of Times Square circa 1980, from composer Cy Coleman and lyricist Ira Gasman. It is, moreover, one new musical that really shows the impact of Rent. The Life has had its sights set on Broadway for years, but might never have arrived if Rent had not made gritty New York street life safe for middlebrow theatergoers...
...Catholic residents of Lower Ormeau Road. At the same time, British Prime Minister John Major, campaigning for re-election at a high school near London, said he believed the nationalist Irish Republican Army was preparing to resume the cease-fire it abandoned a year ago. However, Major predicted the IRA announcement would come after the May 1 national British elections, which Major so far looks likely to lose. It will probably fall to a Labor government to continue the all-party peace talks and to decide whether to extend an invitation to Sinn Fein, the political party aligned with...