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...bitter Protestant-Catholic rioting in Northern Ireland last August aroused predictable sympathy in the largely Catholic Irish Republic to the south. Last week there were charges that extremists in Eire have been providing far more palpable support. In a whirl of charges and countercharges, Prime Minister Jack Lynch fired two of his Cabinet ministers. A third resigned in sympathy. At week's end Lynch reshuffled his entire Cabinet. Behind the firings was the story, not yet fully substantiated, of an arms plot intended to strengthen the outnumbered Catholics of the North...
...suffered losses in the market. Many executives who took loans in order to exercise stock options how find their shares worth far less than the option prices that they had to pay for them. Among Hollywood's beautiful people, several big names are rumored to be bankrupt. Merrill Lynch reports that margin calls are running twice as high as during the 1966 market decline. When a customer gets wiped out by a margin call, he usually becomes angry at the broker who sold him stock on margin, and with good reason in cases in which the issues were overspeculative...
...North Carolina Law Review, argues that the statute should be rescinded before "irreparable injustice occurs which could reflect on the dignity of the laws of North Carolina." The very concept of outlawry-though it is technically a legal procedure-recalls the dismal frontier days of vigilantes and lynch mobs, when angry citizens were allowed to take the law into their own hands and too frequently did. Fortunately for the three North Carolina prisoners, all were peaceably recaptured within three days of the judge's ruling...
...tentative SDS rally (details to be decided Tuesday) demanding "the conviction of policeman Duggan for the murder of Frank Lynch," "compensation for Lynch's family." and "all cops out of Boston City Hospital...
...recently had a show at Manhattan's Whitney Museum. He disclaims any polemic intent. Still, a fellow sculptor remembers that when they tramped the streets of Watts together and Edwards started collecting bits of wire and jagged metal among the rubble of back lots, he called them "lynch fragments...