Word: irishness
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...increases with age and years of exposure to the sun's ultraviolet rays. In the U.S., one Caucasian in seven will be stricken during his lifetime. Skin cancer is hundreds of times more common among whites than blacks and is especially common in those of Northern European extraction, with Irish Americans like Reagan at particularly high risk...
DIED. Morton Downey, 83, singer known as the "Irish thrush" (though he was U.S.-born) for his high, silvery tenor, who was one of radio's most popular and best-paid stars in the 1930s and '40s on The Camel Quarter Hour and The Coke Club, and later became a wealthy businessman who hobnobbed with socialites and top Democrats, notably the Kennedys; in Palm Beach...
Late last week British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald dared to gamble again, this time on a cautious scheme devised to provide the basis for an armistice, if not a settlement, in one of the world's most tenacious conflicts. After a year of discussions between British and Irish negotiators, the two leaders flew to an Anglo-Irish summit at the 188-year-old Hillsborough Castle, twelve miles to the south of Belfast. There they signed an agreement giving the Irish government an official voice in the running of Northern Ireland for the first time...
Specifically, the agreement will lead to the establishment of a British-Irish body to be called the Intergovernmental Conference. It is also intended to lead to "devolution," the transfer of powers from the British government in London to the elected Northern Ireland Assembly, which today is dominated by Protestants and boycotted by Catholics. The newly created conference will reinforce British-Irish efforts to combat terrorism and will attempt to improve relations between the predominantly Protestant security forces and the Catholic community. It will delve into legal matters, perhaps proposing that courts handling security cases be made up of judges from...
FitzGerald and Thatcher faced a formidable array of opposition, ranging from the Irish Republican Army and its political wing, Sinn Fein, to many Protestant political leaders and militants in paramilitary organizations like the Ulster Defense Association. Neither government had any illusion that the agreement would have much impact right away. Explained an Irish official: "The real purpose of this exercise is to detach the northern [Catholic] community from the clutches of the I.R.A. We know that won't happen in six weeks. If it happens in a year, it will be a bloody miracle...