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...state. All three parties in the Irish Dáil (Parliament) have favored their repeal for the past five years. Ireland's Catholic primate, William Cardinal Conway, has declared repeatedly that he "would not shed a tear" to see them go. Two months ago, Prime Minister Jack Lynch cautiously decided to put the question to the Irish people in a referendum...
...Dublin bombings, although immediately denied by the I.R.A., dramatically affected the mood in the South, where the Fianna Fail government of Prime Minister Jack Lynch had been battling to push harsh new anti-I.R.A. legislation through the Dáil (Parliament). "They have turned their guns on the security forces of this state," declared Lynch. "Will they next turn their rockets on targets in this country...
...person to be an I.R.A. member. This statement alone could constitute grounds leading to imprisonment of up to five years. The Dáil's gates were defended against hostile demonstrators by some 2,000 police and troops in riot formation as debate got under way. Inside Parliament, Lynch threatened to go to the country on a law-and-order ticket if the legislation should be defeated. But when news of Dublin's bombings struck, the parliamentary opposition crumbled quickly, averting a crisis. Of two opposition parties, labor voted against Lynch's bill but Fine Gael decided...
...Lynch's tough new policy marked the opening of a second front against the I.R.A. Provisionals in their previous sanctuary in the South, and the I.R.A. fought back with bullets as well as bombs. An eight-man squad of Provisional gunmen boldly attempted to rescue their organization's chief of staff, Sean MacStiofáin, who had been arrested the week before, convicted as a member of an illegal organization and sentenced to six months in prison (TIME, Dec. 4). MacStiofáin promptly went on a hunger and thirst strike to protest his imprisonment, and was taken...
...profit or sold a single product. Yet some major financiers have invested $30 million in the company. Among them, Allstate Insurance has put up $3,000,000, Prudential Insurance $2,000,000, the Rockefeller family $1,560,000 and a Yale University endowment fund $1,000,000. Merrill Lynch co-managed a $25 million private placement for the firm in September. The company's highly speculative stock, issued at $10 a share in 1969, was selling last week at 84½ over the counter, giving Bio-Medical a total market value of more than $62 million...