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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tragedy of Britain's most enduring dilemma. Simply because of his stature, Mountbatten had been considered an obvious if illogical target for the I.R.A. Mullaghmore is only twelve miles from Northern Ireland, near an area known as a refuge for Provos fleeing across the border. Thus local police kept watch on the castle for the one month a year Mountbatten spent there (the rest of the time it was rented), and an unobtrusive personal security detail rotated shifts throughout...
Retired in 1965, Mountbatten kept busy as a committeeman and good-will ambassador, but lived alone-his wife had died suddenly five years before during a charity tour in North Borneo and his two daughters had long since married. "I'd like really to just be buried in my home town of Romsey," he placidly told a BBC interviewer who was preparing a film obituary last year. "The only thing I hope, it'll be a happy occasion...
...worth the price in terms of world opinion, but the Israeli Cabinet decided that the strikes should continue. Some Cabinet members also criticized Dayan for engaging in a bit of private fact-finding reminiscent of Andy Young: an unauthorized meeting with P.L.O. sympathizers in Gaza. Unlike Young, Dayan kept his job. The Israelis say their aims in southern Lebanon are threefold: to force the Palestinian guerrillas to leave the area, to help the enclave of Lebanese Christians and Shi'ites survive in a buffer zone along the border, and to strengthen Israel's bargaining position in any future...
...opposition political party in Tehran. The exception was the National Front, the ineffectual old party of the late Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. The only party actually outlawed is the Kurdish Democratic Party, which is supporting the fight for Kurdish autonomy. But other parties will be either outlawed or kept under a tight rein. Among these is the pro-Moscow Tudeh (Communist) Party, which has followed the clergy's line so unashamedly that political observers in Tehran refer to the party's first secretary, Noureddin Kianuri, as the Ayatullah Kianuri. No matter. The Tudeh, like other "loyal non-Islamic parties...
...Merced River, Half Dome and the scarps of the great valley, one can see the latent images of his work, struggling to become photographs. But as yet they were just vacation snapshots. "They couldn't have meant anything at all to anyone else," he says. "But as I kept doing it over several years, it began to mean more. I was seeing more. Then I got better cameras. Then I began to separate things, to see them more clearly." The first picture he took that he thinks of as "fully visualized" as a photograph was in 1927: a view...