Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week had begun inauspiciously for the cause of peace. On Sunday four Palestinian terrorists landed in a rubber dinghy at the northern Israeli resort of Nahariya. There they murdered two adults and an infant, and a second child was killed accidentally; four other Israelis were injured. Two of the raiders were captured by Israeli soldiers and police; the other two were killed...
...mean for jobs and social services, the drift to the Conservatives was much more negligible. And in Scotland, where the nationalist challenge collapsed, there was actually a swing to Labour--with Teddy Taylor, the Conservative spokesman on Scotland, losing his seat. The scathing portrayal of Mrs. Thatcher by one Northern critic as the "Right Honourable Member for Complacent Southern Suburbia" underlines the festering hostility that she will face from the folks north of the river Trent...
There is also little prospect of America affecting any change in British policies towards Northern Ireland. The ignorant bumblings and clumsy advice offered by Tip O'Neill on his recent visit were completely counter-productive, and the Conservatives will be even less receptive than Labour was to suggestions that they coerce the majority in Ulster into either sharing power or joining a united Ireland. Mrs. Thatcher's resolve to give no quarter to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorists will be stiffened by a personal note: one of her closest political friends and advisers, Airey Neave, was killed...
...days after Harrisburg, 35,000 West Germans protested plans to build an underground nuclear dump near Groleban in northern Germany. They began chanting "We All Live in Pennsylvania," and the slogan was soon picked up by demonstrators back in the U.S. Major demonstrations occurred in Japan, in Denmark, and in other nations. French saboteurs blew up millions of dollars worth of nuclear equipment destined for Iraq. The people of the industrialized world have begun turning against nuclear power, but their governments are wedded to the nuclear industry...
...than biased, ignorant Irish-American politicians visiting Dublin and grubbing around for votes in the U.S. by venting their spleens on Ireland." Labor Cabinet Minister Shirley Williams scoffed: "The Irish-American community has very little idea of the truth of the position in the Republic of Ireland or in Northern Ireland...