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...foreign information which is allowed to enter the country. They have categorized more films as "political propaganda" and prevented foreign speakers--visitors like the widow of Chilean President Salvador Allende and Reverend Ian Paisley and Owen Carron, spokesmen for respectively the radical Protestant and Roman Catholic groups in Northern Ireland--with anti-American views from accepting invitations to speak at American universities. And The New York Times reported several weeks ago on yet one more infringement of rights--legally requiring a lifetime "prepublication review" of all manuscripts written by government officials in order to guard against leaks or inadvertent exposure...
...hour later I saw land. . . I flew quite low enough over Ireland to be seen, but apparently no great attention was paid...
...Fairly early in the afternoon I saw a fleet of fishing boats. . . . On one of them I saw some men and flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool...
Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt contributed two remarkable chronicles last year to TIME. In a January cover story, he reported on a 25,000-mile odyssey that he took to meet with "children of war" from Northern Ireland, Israel and the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Cambodia and Viet Nam. Six months later, during the Israeli siege of Beirut, Rosenblatt returned to Lebanon to seek out several of the Palestinian children he had talked to earlier. His journal of that search appeared in July. The two accounts, which won the 1982 George Polk Award for magazine reporting, now form the core...
...debate was complicated and vitriolic, full of emotional arguments, thunderous Sunday sermons and Irish ironies. It split the medical and legal professions, divided the Republic of Ireland's political parties and prompted Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald to make a public apology for ever having started the fuss. But in a country of 3.1 million Roman Catholics, 96% of the population, the result was never in doubt: by a vote of 66% to 33%, the Irish electorate last week declared itself firmly in favor of a constitutional amendment that would ban abortions...