Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just from living in Boston, one acquires a natural interest in the Irish Republican Army," says Reporter Andrew Blake of the Boston Globe. Blake's interest sharpened during a year of reporting for the London Sunday Times in Northern Ireland. And after some machine guns stolen from an armory in Danvers, Mass., turned up in Ulster last year, Blake set out to find out how the I.R.A. runs guns from the U.S. Several sources steered him toward a man who might talk - Peter McMullen, 32, a Belfast-born Catholic who had first deserted from an elite British paratroop battalion...
McMullen, a burly man who is wanted by the British for terrorist bombing, first came to the U.S. in 1972 on a false passport. He worked as a doorman-bouncer at Wednesday's, an uptown Manhattan bar with a heavily Irish-American clientele. He bought guns with money embezzled by a barman - as much as $3,000 a week, he claimed. Mostly, McMullen said, he just strolled into gun shops, cash in hand, and bought whatever weapons he wanted, but on occasion the approaches got a bit dicey. Said he: "One night I'm standing at the door...
...guns that McMullen purchased were smuggled to Dublin in household and office furniture, he said. Labor union contacts made the arrangements, McMullen explained, and other sympathizers ensured smooth passage through U.S. and Irish customs. From Dublin it was easy to spirit the weapons into Ulster in cars often driven by women with children on busy Sunday afternoons...
Boston School Committee President David Finnegan, the last in a trio of white Irish candidates, bills himself as the "fresh face" of the campaign. A lot of people on State Street thought that Finnegan might pull something off, if only because his name is not White or Timilty. But Finnegan is currently weighing in with about 10 or 15 per cent of the preliminary vote. His candidacy wasn't helped much, of course, by disclosures this summer that he was getting $20,000 a year as a lobbyist fot the tobacco industry. Finnegan believes in capital punishment (Why is capital...
DIED. Louis, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 79, British war hero, statesman and cousin to Elizabeth II; of injuries suffered when his fishing boat was blown up by Irish Republican Army terrorists; off Mullaghmore, Ireland (see WORLD...