Word: irelanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Human Rights condemning torture was one notable reaction of the world community to the excesses of the Third Reich. But torture did not stop. The French used it systematically during the eight-year Algerian War. The British relied on torture to gain information about I.R.A. terrorists in Northern Ireland, while the Saigon regime brutally mistreated suspect Communists throughout most of the Viet...
Until dashing Christopher Ewart-Biggs, 54, was posted as British Ambassador to Ireland last month, the Dublin embassy had been a quiet backwater where aging diplomats drifted into retirement. But Ewart-Biggs, a veteran diplomatic troubleshooter, had been hand-picked for the Dublin job by British Prime Minister James Callaghan to coordinate Anglo-Irish policy in the face of a surge of terrorism that has been spilling south into Ireland from the embattled British province of Ulster. The survivor of several brushes with violence, he wore a distinctive tinted monocle covering an eye lost at El Alamein in World...
Only two weeks after his arrival in Ireland, Ewart-Biggs and two aides set out from his suburban residence for Dublin last week, in a blue Jaguar followed by two Irish police cars. As the Jaguar crossed a sewer 150 yds. from the house, two men lurking in nearby bushes detonated by remote control about 500 Ibs. of explosives hidden inside. The blast gouged a crater 10 ft. deep, hurled the Jaguar into the air and sent stones flying for several hundred yards. The ambassador and a secretary, Judith Cook, 25, were killed. Gravely injured were the chauffeur and Brian...
Prime Target. Some police officials speculated that the prime target of the terrorists, whoever they were, might have been Ewart-Biggs' visitor, Cubbon. As Britain's top civil servant in Northern Ireland, he had been participating in exploratory and unproductive peace talks between Catholic and Protestant leaders in Belfast. Since efforts to set up a Catholic-Protestant coalition government in Ulster collapsed last January, the Labor government's "policy" in Northern Ireland has been to have Britain's 14,500 troops there simply lean on their rifles and let the two sides continue to slug...
Died. Christopher Ewart-Biggs, 54, twelve days after taking up his post as British Ambassador to Ireland; when a terrorist bomb exploded beneath his car; near Dublin (see THE WORLD...