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...workers' movement in Northern Ireland, from the way Eammon McCann describes it, seems to have grown with such assurance that it could not have happened otherwise...
...Eammon McCann, radical Labour Party leader from Derry, Northern Ireland, arrived in New York last week and presented the keys to New York City to the Black Panther Party. Mayor John Lindsay had given the keys to Bernadette Devlin when she was in New York last fall. Angered at her treatment by American politicians, she decided to send the keys to the Panthers in the spirit of international solidarity...
...March 1968, McCann was working on a Vietnam solidarity campaign in London, and went to Derry "for a fortnight's vacation." A Catholic family was about to be evicted from their house trailer by the Protestant government. Ten or twelve people dragged the trailer on to a road and blocked traffic for forty-eight hours. They forced the mayor to house the family...
...month later the Derry movement disrupted a series of corporation meetings with first one hundred, than two hundred, and finally five hundred people. McCann decided to stay in Derry, and the movement grew...
Yale won the championship with an outstanding effort and with the additional help of everyone's inability to make a ruling on the results of the weight throw. Princeton's Tim McCann had signed a contract with a professional team and was therefore ineligible. He came in third, so when the problem was discovered, the spot was vacated. Had Harvard's Dave Bernstein, who was fourth moved up, the Crimson would have...