Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Today in Northern Ireland, women walking for peace [Oct. 25] are attacked with bricks and bottles by Irish children, teen-agers and men. Respect for women and love of neighbor are Christian virtues that seem to have been forgotten by these "patriots...
...breast-feeding mother with her two-week-old infant in tow. A Britain-baiting bartender from Northern Ireland. A maverick former Tory who has been widely denounced as a racist. It was an odd trio, but their support proved essential to Britain's beleaguered Labor government last week as Parliament narrowly passed a series of hotly debated bills. Had the measures been defeated, Prime Minister James Callaghan could have been forced to dissolve the Commons and call for new elections. The closeness of the votes was further proof that Callaghan's hold on No. 10 Downing Street...
MacBride, who won the peace prize in 1974, is currently the United Nations commissioner for Namibia (South-West Africa). He has also served as Ireland's Minister for External Affairs, president of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, and secretary-general of the International Commission of Jurists...
Last spring Daly moved on to become the director of the Ireland Fund, a charitable organization that directs American money to Ireland...
...became president in 1946, and always expected to take over when the chairman reached retirement age of 65. But when that date finally arrived in 1966, Paley announced that he would not step down after all; it was Stanton who retired at 65. His successor was Charles T. Ireland, a financial expert hired away from International Telephone & Telegraph in 1971 to guide an ambitious acquisitions program. When Ireland died of a heart attack the next year, another outsider with financial savvy was brought in: Arthur Taylor, then a 37-year-old whiz kid from International Paper...