Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northern Ireland does not have elections very often, and it is probably just as well. Last time around, Belfast officials considered calling out the British army before police in armored cars finally quelled 3,000 rioters, who were tossing lumps of pig iron and Molotov cocktails. But last week, as the country went to the polls to elect a new Parliament, the atmosphere was remarkably subdued...
Prime Minister O'Neill, 51, who leads the pro-British Unionist Party, has shrewdly helped quiet the pro-Eire agitation by doing earlier this year what no other Ulster P.M. ever dared do: he invited Ireland's Premier Sean Lemass for lunch in Belfast. Many of O'Neill's supporters were outraged, but the dapper, six-foot aristocrat blithely ignored his Orangemen's indignation. "I hoped to establish more normal relations with our southern neighbors," he said coolly. "Since we share the same island, this is surely sensible...
With the unification issue no longer so heated, the campaigning centered on more relevant topics, notably Northern Ireland's chronic economic problem. O'Neill pointed proudly to the many foreign firms that he has lured to Northern Ireland, to a declining unemployment rate, to a diversifying economy no longer solely dependent on shipbuilding and weaving, and to an annual per-capita income that has risen from $779 to $980 in the 3½ years since he succeeded aging Lord Brookeborough as Prime Minister...
...seats. The Nationalists retained their nine seats, but the Irish Labor Party, which is informally allied to the British Labor Party, lost two seats, ending up with only two. All of which meant that O'Neill would probably have five full years to keep Northern Ireland moving. It also meant five easy years for the Prime Minister's chauffeur, for O'Neill likes to wheel around his official black Humber him self. The chauffeur sits beside him on the front seat...
...Northern Ireland town of Bangor and the Ohio town of Sandusky are simi lar in size and economy (tourism and shipping). They were thus suited to be among some 30 paired communities used in a two-year study of the quality of grade-school education in the U.S. and Britain. A team of University of Toledo educators, headed by Professor Robert L. Gibson, gave pupils in the paired towns identical achievement tests in English usage, arithmetic and read ing. The findings, first factual evidence on a much debated question, show that U.S. children start slower than British kids but edge...