Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policies of free enterprise?widened its lead as the Continent's dominant economic power. Spain held its first free vote in 40 years; encouraged by popular King Juan Carlos, 94% of the voters approved a reform bill calling for the election of a bicameral legislature this spring. In Northern Ireland, Betty Williams, 33, and Mairead Corrigan, 32, both Catholics, won the admiration of the world by ignoring death threats and leading thousands of women, Protestants and Catholics alike, in massive demonstrations for peace...
...back, clear and voluminous, to the early '90s, well before his mother Nina moved here to Plains with him, his three sisters and his brother James Earl. For with all his tendrils of memory and hearsay that reach from the main stem back toward the Revolution, England and Ireland, Mr. Alton starts his own tale where he knows it to start-with calamity his own eyes saw up close...
...Dick Sarafian is rewriting the script. This movie is going to be great: after New York, we've got locations in London, Ireland, Nice, the Bahamas, the Middle East and Teterboro...
...Norway and around the world. Her voice trembling, Williams announced that the money would go to a children's center in Belfast's gutted slums. "When I look at sound and happy Norwegian children," she told the audience, "I think of the boys and girls of Northern Ireland, children used to war, to nerve medicine and sleeping pills, and I ask: 'God, forgive us for what we have done.' " Speaking at times in broken Norwegian, Ciaran McKeown, 32, the former newsman who has emerged as the peace movement's chief adviser, added: "You help...
...want to see an agreed Ireland. An Ireland in which the people of Ireland, North and South, Protestant and Catholic, are agreed on how it's to be governed. And once that basis is found, I believe that working together over the years we will gradually erode the mistrust and fear of the times and replace it with confidence and trust. This will lead to a new Ireland based on normal political divisions and not outdated, sectarian prejudices...