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...dies. Darrin Maxwell Ath, Belgium The attitude of a dominant culture toward minorities within its borders is a measure of a country's degree of civilization. The record of Europeans in the 20th century has not been great, but there are indications that things are improving. In June the Irish language was adopted as one of the official working languages of the European Union, and special recognition was afforded Basque, Catalan and Galician. Welsh voices have demanded - quite rightly - that their language be accorded status similar to that of Irish. Colm de Faoite Dublin Portugal's ethnic minorities are such...
...voice, the closeness of the memory. The song is immediate and passionate, a cry of conscience on an album full of oblique social speculation and spiritual voyaging. The Joshua Tree is not, it would seem at first, a record for these times. Bono and the rest of the Irish band called U2 seem to be citizens of some alternative time frame spliced from the idealism of the '60s and the musical free-for-all of the late '70s. Their songs have the phantom soul of the Band, the Celtic wonderment of their compatriot Van Morrison and some of the assertiveness...
Politics and the past make perpetual demands, of course. The band underwrites Mother Records, an outfit that gives young bands their first shot. "We're trying to provide an opportunity for Irish groups," McGuinness says. "You don't have to be Irish, but it helps. We do have one Scottish group." Besides the trip to El Salvador last year, Bono and Ali found time for seven weeks of relief work in Ethiopia, and Mullen tries to stay tapped in to the roots: "All the neighbors knew my mother, and I try to drop in on them occasionally, just to keep...
...promised to write new songs during this tour. He has already begun one, based on a recent video shoot at a grungy Los Angeles location and a chance encounter with a gay Viet Nam vet. "I spotted empty bottles all over the roof with the label Wild Irish Rose wine," he says. "So I started this song. It is about suicide. The opening line is 'This city of angels has brought a devil out in me.' " (Well, the band has been listening to a good deal of country music.) He yearns to write a song that, as Manager McGuinness puts...
...justifiable. What are mankind's benefits from conquering space? Would the money not be better used for cancer and aids research, for trying to save people instead of endangering them? Jehuda Straschnow Netanya, Israel Skepticism about the I.R.A. "A farewell to arms" reported on the announcement by the Irish Republican Army (i.r.a.) that it is formally ending its armed campaign to force Britain out of Northern Ireland [Aug. 8]. It reminded me of 1993 when Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo peace accords and shook hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. We all applauded and thought that peace...