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...commission's report were soon felt in Kampala. There was little that Amin could do about the Geneva-based jurists, but he was not at a loss for convenient targets. Accusing the British of instigating the report (the commission's secretary-general is London Barrister Niall MacDermot), Amin first threatened to expel Uganda's 1,500 Britons on 48 hours notice, then backed down from the deadline at the behest of Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta. But he warned that "drastic action" would still be taken if Britain's "vicious anti-Uganda campaign does...
...scope and genius of Joyce's book, this is Behan's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. With a loving fidelity, Playwright Frank McMahon has pasted together a play that is more of a stage scrapbook, an episodic family album in which the elder Behan (Niall Toibin) sits at the edge of the stage and acts as a kind of chorus commentator on his earlier self (Frank Grimes...
...slums, yet their individual characters and common humanity are finely delineated by the superb Dublin Abbey Theater players. As the young Behan, Frank Grimes is one of those actors who make reviewers long for new adjectives of praise. He is evocative, ardent and totally winning. As the older Behan, Niall Toibin looks uncannily like the man he is playing, and his Gaelic way with a bawdy tune could set a barroom on the roar...
...Laborites, cock-a-hoop with the victory, had won with 1) a more attractive candidate (capable Barrister Niall MacDermot), 2) a solid, close-to-the-pocketbook issue in a proposed Tory bill to relax rent controls, 3) a much better political machine. The Tories were inclined to blame most of their troubles on a third candidate, a Junoesque, right-wing independent named Leslie Greene, 31, who campaigned on "I have no faith in the U.S." She siphoned off 1,487 votes, the majority of them presumably from the Tories. But Candidate Greene was not the whole explanation; since the last...
Oddly enough, neither Farmer nor Labor Candidate Niall MacDermot (a Cambridge-educated barrister) had a thing to say about Suez. The issue at stake was far closer to the British home and pocketbook: rent control. Last week, despite some timid objections from the back benches, the Macmillan government was going all out to put through its bill relaxing the controls which have frozen some 6,000,000 British rents at close to prewar levels ever since 1939 (only 6½% of income now goes for rent, as opposed to 11% prewar). The bill would raise the rent ceilings on some...