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...loyal. Ashbrook gives them another option. He claims not to be interested in winning the presidency, just in "reforming" the President. "We have seen him lead the triumphant charge of the Red Chinese into the United Nations," said Ashbrook. "We have seen our ally of 30 years' standing, Nationalist China, cynically expelled while we stood by and did effectively nothing." He accused Nixon of dangerously paring the defense budget, while running up the "largest, most outrageous string of deficits in American peacetime history...
...cause was also pushed along by the nationalist zeal of the romantic, rambunctious Fenians, who eventually fathered the I.R.A. Their principal organization was the Irish Republican Brotherhood, which was founded on St. Patrick's Day, 1858, to carry on Wolfe Tone's dream of independence. Vaguely socialist in doctrine, the Brotherhood specialized in random bombings and produced its share of patriotic heroes for Ireland to keen over. Among the most famous?although hardly the most successful?were "the Manchester Martyrs," Michael Larkin, William Allen and Michael O'Brien, who were hanged in Manchester in 1867 for shooting an English constable...
...Federal government has maintained that Downey and Fecteau were civilian employees of the Army, but the Chinese claimed they were on a mission to drop Nationalist Chinese agents on the mainland...
Thwarted Mission. Along with another American civilian, John Downey, Fecteau had been shot down over China during the Korean War. The Chinese claimed that the pair had flown eleven Nationalist agents into China and had returned to drop supplies when they were hit. Downey, now 41, the ranking man on the mission, was given a life sentence, while Fecteau, 43, got 20 years. At first, the U.S. contended that the pair had strayed by accident over
...Derived from Marcus Garvey's similar banner for his post-World War I black nationalist movement, the "liberation" tricolor first came into contemporary use by black groups some ten years...