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...European allies. Eight of ten members of the European Community, including France and West Germany, voted to extend indefinitely economic sanctions that the Community had leveled against Argentina following its April 2 invasion of the islands. British Foreign Minister Francis Pym declared himself "grateful" at the decision, even though Ireland and Italy refused to join in the measure...
...Turkish terrorist and the attempt on his life last month in Portugal by a bayonet-wielding dissident priest. The Pope's special $400,000 yellow-and-white security vehicles-dubbed the four Popemo-biles-contained engineering features originally developed to defend vehicles against Catholic terrorists in Northern Ireland...
...dramatic show of solidarity, voted unanimously to impose sanctions against Argentina for one month. Last week's first rebuff came when foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg reluctantly agreed to extend those sanctions for only seven more days instead of the additional month the British had sought. Italy and Ireland did not go along with even that limited measure. But a crueler blow fell the next day in Brussels, where Community agriculture ministers voted 7 to 1 (with Denmark and Greece abstaining) to override a British veto and push through a Community-wide farm price increase of 10.7%. In doing...
America was built by unthinkable sagas of travel, men and women letting go and leaping west into a primitive, dangerous promise. Now one of the more specialized motives for travel is the roots tour, the journey back to Ireland or Italy or Africa to find ancestors and ties. A travel agency in Atlanta is doing good business taking American blacks to Africa to try the old genetic recessional: Americans in their retrospective dream. Religion has always driven travelers, from the wild Deus volt of the First Crusade to more peaceful pilgrimages to Jerusalem, Mecca, Lourdes and Rome...
...signs of growing disunity among her Western European allies were more alarming than domestic doubts. Before the Belgrano sinking, Western Europe had been unanimous in supporting Britain, to the point of imposing stiff economic sanctions and suspending trade relations with Argentina. The first country to break ranks was Ireland. Immediately after the sinking of the Argentine cruiser, the Irish government declared that it was "appalled by the outbreak of what amounts to open war" in the South Atlantic, and said it was "imperative" that the U.N. become involved in settling the dispute. Irish Defense Minister Patrick Power went a dubious...