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...Double-Edged Sword Denis Donaldson, a former official of the I.R.A.'s political wing who admitted to having spied on the organization for the British, was found murdered in Ireland on April 4. The I.R.A. denied any involvement, but TIME's Jan. 10, 1972, cover story explained how the group's brutality could be turned on its own people: "On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh the old slogans of idealism and hatred: 'Up the I.R.A.' and 'Informers Beware' ... British command announced that children...
...since, the number of its cheerful yellow outlets and the size of its revenues have both increased tenfold. Last year it sold 9 million handsets. It's now a $2 billion company. By any standard, that's explosive growth. "Microsoft and Dell didn't do it that quickly," says Jan Dauman, a London-based consultant who is advising the company on how to cope with its rapid expansion. Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Euroset's ponytailed co-founder and chairman, is conscious of his success - perhaps too conscious. In a corner of his Moscow office, perched beneath a painting of a businessman fondling...
There's creative conflict and there's just ... conflict. Theater actress JAN MAXWELL quit the off-Broadway play Entertaining Mr. Sloane weeks before its May 21 close because, she told the New York Post, her co-star ALEC BALDWIN "created an unhealthy and oppressive situation." She cited Baldwin's punching a wall when the air conditioning wasn't high enough. "Jan was miserable from the start," Baldwin, who acknowledged the wall punching, told TIME. "If you only work with people who are warm and sunny, you're not gonna work much...
...half of Darfur's population--but their work is limited by the continued fighting. The World Food Program said last week that it has received only one-third of the $746 million it needs to fight malnutrition in Darfur. It plans to halve the amount of food it distributes. Jan Egeland, the U.N.'s top humanitarian-aid official, says that because of the violence and shortfall in funds, the U.N. may have to halt some relief operations within weeks...
...Jan. 1972: Police alerted Harry to an incident at Bible Town, a ministry retreat in Boca Raton. "Bettie was running through the motel complex, waving a .22-caliber pistol and shouting about the retribution of God." Harry, taking pity on his volatile ex-wife, brought her home to stay with him and his children - Larry, 16, and Linda...