Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even when they became a majority in Derry?ever allowed to play any major role in the city's administration. When, in 1968, Catholic civil rightists did the unthinkable by marching through this Protestant inner sanctum, their defiance touched off a tragic tribal war that has engulfed all Northern Ireland. Yet after ten years of bloodshed, the city that served as the fuse for war may have found the balm for peace, as Derry Protestants and Catholics set an example for the rest of Northern Ireland by attempting to share power...
...Tuesday afternoon, some 1,000 miles from Ireland, gales lifted the balloon to nearly 20,000 ft., and the men were forced to don oxygen masks. The next day heavy ice forming on the balloon pushed it down to 4,000 ft. before the afternoon sun melted the frosty coating and saved the expedition...
...balloon neared the British Isles, the winds died, and fearing the balloon might drop into the sea, American rescue planes were sent up. But a breeze freshened, and the crew caught a dizzying glimpse of Ireland through the clouds as they crossed over the tiny port of Louisburgh in County Mayo. Once they had traversed Wales and crossed the English Channel to the French coast, the men on Double Eagle II found themselves the center of a flock of light airplanes and helicopters that whizzed by in salute and formed an honor guard to escort them the rest...
...eyes, but no hysteria, in the crowd that is almost entirely white and middle class. The people are quiet and reverent. "He's a legend and we just want to be part of it," explains George Lecky, 31, a truck driver who has come from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to spend more than a week in Memphis. He has brought with him his girl friend, his daughter and a nephew; all four wear matching Elvis T shirts...
...President Josip Broz Tito, Rumania's President Nicolai Ceauşescu, Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Of all the Pope's many diplomatic initiatives, including a long and fruitless attempt to mediate peace in VietNam and similarly frustrating efforts in Biafra, Northern Ireland and the Middle East, his Ostpolitik was the most successful. His overtures to the Communist world helped to win the church such concessions as limited freedom to teach, nominations of new bishops and permission for public festivals. They also settled such ancient controversies as the 18-year isolation of Hungary...