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...unrest kicked off after a march by the Protestant Orange Order was diverted about 100 yards to avoid a Catholic neighborhood. Marchers clashed with police who blocked their preferred route, and were joined quickly by members of two loyalist paramilitary groups. They coordinated attacks that spread to towns outside Belfast. The burning cars and rubble-strewn streets they left in their wake were a sharp reminder of just how severe this outburst had been. Earlier this year, the Police Service of Northern Ireland had congratulated itself for not having to use plastic bullets, a riot control weapon...
DIED. L. PATRICK GRAY, 88, onetime Nixon loyalist and acting director of the FBI during Watergate, who expressed "total shock" at the disclosure that his former deputy W. Mark Felt was the secret journalistic source Deep Throat; of pancreatic cancer; in Atlantic Beach, Fla. Tapped by Nixon in May 1972, after the death of J. Edgar Hoover, he testified during his 1973 Senate confirmation hearings that he had been turning over FBI files on the Watergate probe to the White House. That prompted Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman to suggest famously that Gray be left to "twist slowly, slowly...
Because Begin refused to groom a successor within Herut, a power struggle at last week's convention was probably inevitable. Shamir, bolstered by a letter of support from Begin, who remained in seclusion at his Jerusalem home, won the first round when a Shamir loyalist, Minister of Labor Moshe Katzav, was elected convention chairman. He lost the second when Sharon defeated Shamir's candidate, Begin's son Benny, 43, a political neophyte, for chairmanship of the committee that controls the selection of delegates...
...straitlaced Swedes, many of whom did not always approve of Palme's flamboyant ways, welcomed the new leader. Said a Social Democratic loyalist: "If Swedes make any comparisons, they will most likely be to Carlsson's advantage." Noted one young economist: "Political life will be boring without Palme, but hopes are now pinned on Carlsson's being a man of cooperation...
...Republican loyalist and canny political strategist, C. Boyden Gray has been quite busy lately. The former White House counsel to the first President Bush heads up the Committee for Justice, an advocacy group that has worked closely with the White House to push Bush 2's most controversial judicial nominees through the Senate. John Podesta has been busy too. The former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton who today leads the liberal Center for American Progress has worked hard to foil Gray. Yet even as the two party generals square off in a battle that has roiled the Senate...