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...month investigation, accused the I.R.A. of training Colombian guerrillas alongside Iranians, Cubans and possibly Basque separatists. Refusing an invitation to appear before the Committee, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams said he was satisfied with the I.R.A.'s denial that it had sent anyone to train rebel groups in Colombia. "Irish Republicans pose no threat to U.S. national-security interests in Colombia," he added...
...Internet Movie Database identifies Herb Jeffries as being of "Ethiopian-French Canadian-Italian & Irish descent," and notes that one of his five wives was the stripper Tempest Storm. Jeffries was a mellow baritone; he had sung with Cab Calloway. On screen, as Herbert Jeffrey, he became the smoothest cowboy west of Sugar Hill in four sagebrush sing-a-longs made in the late 30s at a black-owned California ranch. As Bogle observes, Jeffries and his light-skinned leading ladies were the "whites" in these films; the supporting roles were taken by dark-skinned comics like Mantan Moreland...
...intended to address the consequences of racism, where is the justification for excluding the tens of millions of other Americans who have suffered discrimination either individually or as groups? Many groups, not just blacks, have suffered at the hands of others in our history. Descendants of Chinese railway laborers, Irish famine refugees, American Indians, Jews and more recent Asian immigrants have all faced the same problems of racism and discrimination, and would have just as valid a claim on reparations...
...presumably innocent men of Islamic origin for "voluntary" questioning. And now, with tens of thousands of airline passengers' lives at stake daily, officials are intimidated by a civil-libertarian backlash and are equating the threat posed by the very same ethnic group with that of a bunch of Irish nuns? Give me a break! RON VINOKOOR Takarazuka, Japan...
Riverside is a traditionally Irish and black neighborhood that sweeps along the Charles River from Harvard Square to Central Square. Some of Harvard’s tallest building projects of the last 50 years were constructed here...