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Marriage--to a Lawrence girl he'd known since first grade--and then the Second World War interrupted Kelleher's scholarly career. After a stint in the quartermaster corps, he was assigned to the Pentagon and military intelligence, which thought it needed an expert in Ireland. "They soon decided they didn't, and so I was switched to the Korea desk. I comforted myself with the thought that Korea must be the Ireland of Asia," he says...
...Vote for me and give Thatcher a kick in the teeth. Vote for me and vote for the prisoners." That message, blared across the bucolic landscape of Northern Ireland's Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency, proved to be a winner in an important by-election last week. At stake was the British Parliament seat vacant since the death of Bobby Sands, the first of ten Irish nationalists who have starved themselves to death in the Maze Prison near Belfast. The victor was Owen Carron, 28, Sands' former campaign manager, whose triumph over Protestant Kenneth Maginnis...
...days without food, agreed to let doctors treat him. But some Catholics hoped that Thatcher might be influenced by a bold proposal from an unexpected quarter. In an editorial, London's Sunday Times, a pillar of the Establishment, argued that Britain should give up sovereignty over Northern Ireland...
...British policy in Northern Ireland-to try to keep it in the United Kingdom by general consent-has not worked, is not working and will not work," the newspaper declared. Echoing a recent speech by former Prime Minister James Callaghan, it suggested that the six counties of Ulster become an independent nation, enjoying economic subsidies and military protection from Britain. To prevent the Protestants, who outnumber Catholics 1 million to 500,000, from abusing their majority status, as they did before Northern Ireland's civil rights movement erupted in 1968, both Callaghan and the Sunday Times proposed a bill...
...good show. Now back to the world of 4 million unemployed, the Northern Ireland debacle and riots in the streets. Solve them. That would be what I would call a really good show...