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...term settlement is not good, he admits, adding that those who live in the Republic are scared of any hasty unification of the island. "They realize that if they were suddenly handed back the North now it would be a disaster. If the British army can't handle the IRA coming out of one-third of the population, the Irish army certainly couldn't handle the UDA coming out of two-thirds of the population. And probably a tougher two-thirds at that." The paramilitary groups make any peace even harder to achieve, he adds...
...would not go free. The task force also proposed limiting habeas corpus petitions, which allow prisoners to try repeatedly to get their convictions thrown out on constitutional grounds. Both recommendations, along with bail reform, have drawn heavy fire from civil libertarians. "It's a public relations fraud," complains Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "They want to appear to be doing something about crime, but what they're really doing is fooling with the Constitution...
...role in the film version of Ira Levin's Deathtrap, Actor Michael Caine is dressed to kill in a $2,500 Sulka robe and a pair of $300 silk Gucci pajamas. Caine, 47, plays Sidney Bruhl, a writer of stage thrillers who has not had a Broadway hit in years. Then a former student of his, played by Christopher Reeve, 28, turns up at his converted windmill in East Hampton, N.Y., with a murderously good play. In a plot with more twists than a Chubby Checker concert, Bruhl conspires with his wife (Dyan Cannon) to take over the manuscript...
...Hara urged the audience to offer continued support for the IRA prisoners and to help Northern Ireland reach a solution before more hunger strikers...
Sands sharply attached British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for her consistent refusal to classify IRA prisoners as political prisoners, and told the cheering crowd that in his brother's battles with Thatcher "Bobby always beat her--even in his death...