Word: northern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clark, the trials were a culmination of his three-year assignment as TIME's Moscow bureau chief. In his 16 years with the magazine, he has covered scenes of combat in Viet Nam, the Middle East, Northern Ireland and Bangladesh. But Moscow is different. Here the struggle between the dissidents and the authorities is subtle and complex, with many diverse protesters...
...weeks and rewarding months, and the most tentative of new citizens begins to sound like a charter member of the D.A.R. Ask David John Bickerstaff, 32, a British automotive engineer who moved to Detroit in 1973, owns a four-bedroom home with swimming pool and a vacation cottage in northern Michigan. "When I meet a cynical guy in the U.S.," says Bickerstaff, "I tell him: 'Why don't you go to England and live? You'll come back a happy American.' " -Michael Demarest
...major Christian factions: Pierre Gemayel's Phalangists, Camille Chamoun's National Liberals, and forces loyal to former President Suleiman Franjieh, a close ally of Syrian President Hafez Assad. The dispute centers on the fact that Gemayel and Chamoun would like to create a separate Christian state in northern Lebanon, while Franjieh supports a unified nation. Franjieh also believes the country's sovereignty is best guaranteed by the presence of the Syrian army...
Honorable members dived for cover under their antique, leather-padded benches last week as demonstrators protesting Britain's military presence in Northern Ireland hurled something worse than slogans at the august mother of parliaments. Despite strict security, a man and a woman had managed to smuggle a truly noxious bundle of objections into the visitors' gallery at Westminster: packages of horse manure. After bombarding the M.P.s with the missiles, the coprophilic dissidents-one of whom was Yana Mintoff, 26, daughter of the Prime Minister of Malta-were dragged off by police...
...years have passed since a peaceful civil rights movement blossomed among the Catholic minority, unexpectedly catalyzing violence and hatred in Northern Ireland. To date, the war between Ulster's Catholics and the Protestant majority-with British army regulars caught between-has left 1,837 dead, thousands disabled, and an uncountable number seared with fury against their neighbors. (Among the most recent fatalities: two Ulster constables, a reserve member of that force, and a young Belfast Catholic.) TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo reports on Ulster today, and how its people have learned to cope with terror, and even...