Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walkout by 546 maintenance workers left 16,000 Boston area commuters looking for other means to travel and affected freight shipments to northern New England cities...
Ironically, one question of British policy in which Mountbatten had never played a role was that of Northern Ireland. Yet his death, following hard on the tenth anniversary of Britain's dispatch of troops to the province, inevitably threw into grave relief the unremitting tragedy of Britain's most enduring dilemma. Simply because of his stature, Mountbatten had been considered an obvious if illogical target for the I.R.A. Mullaghmore is only twelve miles from Northern Ireland, near an area known as a refuge for Provos fleeing across the border. Thus local police kept watch on the castle...
...weakness of the I.R.A's own policy was apparent from its statement claiming responsibility for Mountbatten's murder; the language constituted a veiled admission that the almost daily round of violence in Northern Ireland has made little headway on British public opinion, despite nearly 2,000 dead and 21,000 injured in the past ten years. Roy Mason, Ulster Secretary in the last Labor government, said he believed Mountbatten's death signaled a frightening new dimension in terrorism, that is, competition among the assassins. "After the Irish National Liberation Army killed M.P. Airey Neave [last March]," said...
Despite his age and a painful back ailment from a shipboard accident in the 1920s, Ludwig is amazingly energetic and keeps close watch on Jari. He receives a constant flow of reports at his headquarters. More important, several times a year he flies to Belem on Brazil's northern coast, traveling economy class except when he can hitch a free ride on a friend's corporate jet. At Belem he waits for the Fairchild turboprop that makes the 90-min. flight daily between the port city and Jari. Disdaining VIP treatment, Ludwig crowds on board with newly recruited...
...story, the restlessness, trials, past deeds and dreams of a score of other characters. There are Hannah Palz, a motherly musician-in-residence; Jim Pace, an unscrupulous real estate dealer; Brit Horton, a grizzled farmer; Mercy Grout, the local adventuress. There are also touches of Southern gothic in the Northern woods: a sex maniac murders and mutilates two hikers, and a motorcycle gang leaves one dead and another paralyzed...