Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...International Match for the Walker Cup, in which the eight leading amateur golfers from the United States compete against their counterparts from Great Britain and Ireland, has been justifiably acclaimed as the premiere event in amateur golf since it was first played in 1922. Certainly, it is the international sporting competition that is the most steeped in tradition and prestige aside from the Olympic games...
Alarmed as never before (see box next page), the whites closed ranks behind the man they call "good old Smithy." "Let's face it," says Asbestos Mineworker Henry O'Hara, who emigrated from Ireland 31 years ago at the age of seven, "Smith's done a damn good job for twelve years. I don't see why he shouldn't have another twelve-long enough for my kids to grow up." O'Hara approves of Smith's concept of "power sharing" between whites and moderate blacks. But who would be in the driver...
...kind of violence that Britons had come to expect in Northern Ireland but not in their own traditionally peaceful streets. But this summer has changed that, as poor, unemployed blacks and whites have turned their frustration on one another-and the police. For British cops, the Netting Hill riot was their third violent racial clash in as many weeks. The earlier fights, in which 115 cops were injured, were provoked by demonstrations of Britain's National Front, a 4,500-member neofascist organization that wants to send the country's 2 million black and Asian immigrants back...
...Indeed, the only touring she and her husband Prince Philip dared was a short ride aboard an army Land-Rover specially fitted with a cocoon of bulletproof glass. Nonetheless, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had reason to be pleased with her two-day Silver Jubilee visit to Northern Ireland. Racked by warfare between Protestants and Catholics for the past eight years, Ulster was girded for yet another round of violence, punctuated by what the militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army had said would be a "Jubilee bomb blitz to remember." Instead, a force of British soldiers, police...
...Lynch has denounced the terrorism of the Proves. In accepting victory last week, he assured the nation -and Ulstermen as well-that "there will be no problem whatever in relating to Northern Ireland." He promised "understanding" with the North...