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The threat of further violence has cast a long shadow over the Orangemen marches this summer. The grand master of the Orange Order, the Rev. Martin Smyth, has warned his marshals to be "extra vigilant." Last week Tom King, Britain's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, made a public...
McFarlane stressed in his speech that attacks such as those against Libya should be part of a "coherent family of instruments, not all of which are applicable against every target." The U.S. should first respond with nonviolent but "active" measures, such as economic sanctions, he said.
Then, having paid tribute to the dead, the politicians went into town to assert the continued resurrection of the opposition movement. As the leaders took the podium at the local Y.M.C.A., 3,000 supporters squeezed into the tiny gymnasium. Perhaps 50,000 others gathered outside in the streets. Some sat...
Speaking before a half-capacity crowd of 300 in Memorial Church, King, who is the president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, cited the success of the women's rights movement, the work of Bishop Desmond Tutu and Corazon Aquino.
I gave a lecture here the other day, and I told them, "Look, you people were so tolerant and so patient under Marcos for 20 years, and here I am only two days and you are expecting miracles. Then last night I talked to the nonviolent group, and again here...