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Ireland's Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave, with his wisp of mustache, starched collar, bowler hat and understated manner, often looks like a Downstairs character asking a small favor of the man Upstairs. And indeed, until recently, the Irish were among the profligates of Europe, living it up as if someone else were responsible for their bills. Wages wildly outstripped productivity. Unemployment was the highest in Western Europe; inflation raged at an 18% rate. Public debt zoomed moonward at a catastrophic speed, while the idea of restricting consumption to narrow an enormous deficit elicited a knowing snigger. By calling...
...Republic's support for the Catholic minority in Ulster is now moderated by a growing realization that the problems of the island would not simply disappear if the Republic and the province were united. The position of Hume's party now echoes the view of Irish Republican Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave: no unification can occur without the consent of the Ulster majority...
...terrorists escaped with a third man. Dublin launched a man hunt involving 4,000 Irish policemen-half the country's police force-and 2,000 soldiers. Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave declared that "this atrocity fills all decent Irish people with a sense of shame." In London, Prime Minister James Callaghan condemned the assassins as a "common enemy whom we must destroy or be destroyed...
...week's end Gallagher offered to give himself up. But his partner, dubbed "Mad Marian" by the Dublin newspapers, refused to let him and their hostage go. As the deadly risk to Herrema mounted, Irish public opinion was increasingly divided. Initially, Prime Minister Liam Cosgrave's hard-line refusal to compromise was widely approved. Now it is feared that if the kidnapers were killed with their hostage after vain attempts to make a deal, they might become instant martyrs to the I.R.A. cause...
...When Liam Ebrill, a second-year graduate student in Economics and a member of the Committee of the Graduate Economics Club, asked Duesenberry's secretary for a copy of the visiting committee report last Wednesday, he was told...