Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People's Peace Prize," which eventually collected $324,000 in donations. The sum was awarded to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, the Roman Catholic "peace women" of Belfast (TIME, Dec. 13) who had stirred the world with their pleas for an end to sectarian bloodshed in Northern Ireland...
...award to Amnesty International marked the second time that the Nobel judges had paid tribute to its work: in 1974 the Peace Prize was given to Ireland's former Foreign Minister Sean MacBride, longtime chairman of AI's executive committee. There is no reason to criticize the duplicated honor. From its start 16 years ago as a letter-writing campaign by London Lawyer Peter Benenson, AI has become a potent force on world opinion. It now counts more than 168,000 members in 107 countries...
...zones. Some early supporters have defected after disputes with Ciaran Mc-Keown, an ex-journalist who has become the chief ideologue of the movement. Mc-Keown has switched the emphasis from protest marches toward projects of "community democracy" that he hopes will start to heal the hatreds between Northern Ireland's 1 million Protestants and its 500,000 Catholics...
...Nobel money will help fund are neighborhood cooperatives, efforts to find housing and employment to dissuade people from resorting to terrorism, and other social programs'. Williams and Corrigan also cite a statistic that argues for their success: since their crusade was launched 14 months ago, violence in Northern Ireland has been cut by half...
...with Thomas, in which there is nothing useful to say. This was to have been Thomas' turn, but Osgood has taken his place. Thomas is the most experienced bomb-disposal expert in England, called out of retirement when Irish terrorists began stepping up their bombing attacks in Northern Ireland. But he has exhausted his supply of nerve. It is not a matter of steady hands; a watchmaker's skill is not required. All that is necessary is to pry the top off the wooden box and cut a single wire before the hour hand of the alarm clock...