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...Members: Britain, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and West Germany. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Norway have also imposed sanctions. Japan has promised not to take advantage of the economic opportunities created by these measures...
...after working for various architects in Ireland and England, Roche decided to study under Glass-Box Master Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology. After a year, Roche began bumming around the U.S. His not-so-taciturn fellow Irishman, Yale Art Historian Vincent Scully, contends that this was the time when Roche "was bowled over by the bigness and power of American industrial architecture...
...abandoned Port Egmont in 1774 as "uneconomical." In departing, though, the British commander nailed up a lead plaque that said: "Be it known to all nations that Falkland's Islands. . . are the sole property of His Most Sacred Majesty, George the Third, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland...
...almost been too successful," says Ireland's Keith MacCarthy-Morrogh, 37, assistant managing director of Gilbeys, which makes a concoction known as Baileys Original Irish Cream Liqueur. First introduced to the worldwide liquor trade only six years ago, Baileys, a sweet blend of chocolate, cream and whisky, now outsells such established after-dinner favorites as Cointreau and Grand Marnier. Annual production of Baileys at Gilbeys' Dublin plant has grown from 25,000 cases in 1976 to 2 million...
...chicken. Said a Thatcher spokesman last week: "This government does not regard De Lorean as a bottomless pit. You can't keep throwing good money after bad." De Lorean quickly reminded officials that his firm provides 2,600 jobs in a violence-prone and depressed section of Northern Ireland, where few corporations have ventured...