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...dead man was Joseph McCann, 25, commander of the first battalion of the I.R.A.'s Marxist-leaning Official wing in Belfast. A semilegendary hero to the I.R.A. gunmen, he had eluded capture by the British for more than two years-a fact that spawned his nickname, "Joe the Fox." It was said that he had shot as many as 15 British soldiers. McCann's luck ran out when police plainclothesmen spotted him in a narrow Belfast thoroughfare called Joy Street. As he tried to run, he was shot and killed by soldiers...
...GENERAL WAS A SPY by HEINZ HOHNE and HERMANN ZOLLING 377 pages. Coward-McCann & Geoghegan...
Senator Francis X. McCann (D-Cambridge), however, said Wednesday that PR violates the U.S. Supreme Court's "one man one vote" rule by forcing voters to make choices in order of preference. McCann said that under the PR system, the voter has only a fraction of one vote...
...play the game again. The habits of our minds force us to once again look for the "explanation" for the events we see. In The Birthday Party, one could explain McCann's and Goldberg's actions as a fiendish underworld plot to get Stanley. Here it's just as simple: Ruth must have been a prostitute when Teddy married her (the suggestion is made several times in the play). Perhaps Teddy has brought her to Europe to work out the unresolvable differences between them, has failed in his efforts, and is now willing to let the family solve his problem...
...first period was evenly played, B.U. gaining a slight advantage with a goal by the Terriers' Peter McCann...