Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time was sensitive indeed. The I.R.A. and the British had just begun a secret exchange of messages aimed at opening peace talks to end the violence that has rent Northern Ireland for 25 years and left thousands dead. Despite outrage over these killings and others that followed, the contacts continued and the two sides edged toward full-scale negotiations. Then last week the Observer newspaper uncovered the secret talks...
Flanked by a sign asking "Northern Right Whale Endangered?," former committee chair Bonnie J. Becker '95 sprawled out on the Science Center path, wearing--with appropriate underclothing--a fish head, fins and body, and a harpoon jutting from her midsection...
With 54 points, Harvard (5-2-1, 5-2-1 ECAC) is eerily one point ahead of Northern Michigan, the school that knocked the Crimson out of the NCAA tournament last March in Worcester, Mass. Lightly regarded coming into the year, the Wildcats continue to show that such an upset is no fluke, last weekend splitting two games with sixth-ranked Wisconsin...
...lawlessness, were Antonio Bassolino, a 46-year-old veteran communist who had the backing of the leftists and the Greens, and the neofascist party's Alessandra Mussolini, 30, granddaughter of dictator Benito Mussolini and niece of Sophia Loren. In Genoa and Venice the leftists surprisingly forced runoffs against the Northern League, suggesting there may be a geographic limit to the separatists' appeal...
...municipal balloting, but the dismal showing of the ruling parties may force President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to call for new parliamentary elections, possibly as early as next February. Last week's winners were already beginning to reposition themselves as new coalition builders attractive to the mainstream. Said the Northern League's secretary, Umberto Bossi: "A center party does exist in Italy, and it's called the League." Countered Achille Occhetto, leader of the Democratic Party of the Left: "We are a great alliance of progressive forces that can confront the League and offer a democratic alternative to the Christian Democrats...