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...When Ireland's parliamentary election campaign opened a month ago, Prime Minister Charles Haughey and his Fianna Fáil (Band of Destiny) party seemed invincible. The polls showed them comfortably ahead of their opponents; Haughey, 55, had sprinted into the lead like an Irish steeplechaser in a field of Clydesdales. But then the jumps got higher. Undercut by the tensions in Northern Ireland and voter discontent over inflation (21%) and unemployment (11%), Haughey saw his lead evaporate. A strong finish by the opposition Fine Gael (Family of the Irish) party, headed by former Foreign Minister Garret Fitzgerald...
Donovan raised some $600,000 for Reagan's campaign and hosted a $200,000 fund raiser, featuring Frank Sinatra, at a country club owned by Schiavone Construction. Co-host of the event was Insurance Executive William McCann, who has been appointed Ambassador to Ireland. During the campaign, Reagan attended a rally with Donovan at a New York City site where Schiavone Construction, with the help of Masselli's Jo-Pel Contracting, was working on a new midtown subway tunnel. A source familiar with the construction project told TIME that Donovan introduced Masselli and another man indicted with...
...superpowers are not the only nations insistent upon obsolete and corrupt relationships with those who seek freedom from outside domination. The last few months have witnessed the agonizing renewal of nearly open warfare in Northern Ireland, where Great Britain continues to demonstrate its unfitness to rule that battered region. Britain's refusal to grant political status to jailed Irish Republican Army members--a move supported even by many Protestants, if only to stop the bloodshed--represented just another example of the misguided sense of honor that has dominated British actions. All Ireland will eventually have to share in the creation...
...Margaret Thatcher declared bitterly: "I hope that when [the soldiers'] murderers have been tried and convicted, no one will claim that they are entitled to special privileges . . . for having done cold, callous, brutal murder." Though opposition M.P.s have begun calling for a more flexible approach to the Northern Ireland problem, Thatcher's tough stance on the prison protest still had strong backing from the British public: in a recent poll, only 4% believed that the prisoners should have political status...
...growing and ominous polarization in Northern Ireland was reflected in last week's local elections. The Rev. Ian Paisley's hard-line Democratic Unionist Party doubled its seats with a show of Protestant militancy, making Paisley Ulster's dominant politician, and candidates backing the I.R.A. hunger strikers fared well among Catholics. The results were no comfort for Thatcher or the Irish Republic's Prime Minister Charles Haughey, who called a national election for June 11, partly to win a fresh mandate for his attempts to mediate with London some solution to what he called the "tragic...