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Ireland last week voted overwhelmingly to join the European Common Market. The more than 4-to-l margin of approval in a national referendum was a considerable triumph for Prime Minister Jack Lynch, who had campaigned aggressively for a yes vote -and a defeat for Sinn Féin, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, which opposed entry. The vote ensures that Ireland will become a member of the enlarged European Economic Community next Jan. 1, and will not, as Lynch had warned, face a future "lost in the mists of a Celtic twilight...
...fluke goal at 7:03. The attackman was feeding a pass from behind the Crimson net when Harvard goalie Rob Abbot stepped out to try to intercept the ball. Fagan's pass hit Abbot on the chest and bounced into the goal. A few minutes later, Dan Lynch scored for Yale to ensure a Bulldog victory...
...Henry Kissinger and the blowing up of heating tunnels in Washington, D.C., were merely loose talk. "Conspiracy," said Assistant Defense Attorney Leonard Boudin in his closing argument, "is when a group of people get together and make a commitment-a firm commitment-to action." Countered Chief Prosecutor William Lynch: "Words are the trigger of action." In the end, no amount of words could trigger the jury to action. Last week, after seven days of wearying deliberation, the nine women and three men confessed that they were hopelessly deadlocked on the conspiracy charges, and the case was declared a mistrial...
GUSTAVE JOHNSON is Ardell, the cool uniformed black who is Hummel's mentor and friend, a shadowy figure counselling him through the play's series of flashbacks and burying him at their end. He and Walter Lott the flamboyant drill Sergeant, Barry Saider the bully and Richard Lynch the maimed hospital patient, give performances that stand out in the excellent supporting cast. Director David Wheeler stages the play without a pretention of proscenium--as if it were in his living room--and after 60 productions with the Theatre Company it might as well be. Set designer John Thornton has divided...
...System. In response to gentle questioning from Prosecutor William Lynch, Douglas told the court of his involvement with Berrigan. "I had become pretty sympathetic to Philip Berrigan's philosophy about the destruction of draft-card records," he said. "At that time, he advised me that he had several projects under study round the country. One involved the destruction of the utility system in Washington, D.C. He advised me he had been in this system-down in the tunnel system itself-with another individual. He said that he had been there posing as an electrical engineer. I told him that...