Word: northerners
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HIDDEN AGENDA. This contentious melodrama blames British intelligence for everything from political murders in Northern Ireland to sabotage of the Wilson and Heath governments. But even conspiracy buffs may find it hard to be stirred by Ken Loach's dour direction. Paranoia deserves better than this...
...Parsons, a subsidiary of Northern Engineering Industries in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, employees have abandoned work on what should have been one of their most lucrative projects in recent years, a $150 million contract to build four turbine generators for a power station at Al Shemal, 240 miles north of Baghdad. Playing its small part in the worldwide sanctions against Iraq, the firm has announced layoffs of 650 workers. Near Beasley, Texas, Jack Wendt, who farms 1,500 acres of rice and grain, calculates that he will earn $72,000 less than in 1989 because of the sudden disappearance...
...rout in Worcester was not unexpected--Albany was only the second-place team in the traditionally weak Northern New York League. But the combination of a tough, scrappy opponent and torrential downpours kept the Harvard squad focused on the wild-card match...
...million Hindus as the embodiment of chivalry and virtue. But it was Shiva, the god of destruction, who showed his face last week as thousands of Rama devotees marched toward a 462-year-old Muslim mosque in Ayodhya, a site holy to both Hindus and Muslims in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Shouting "Break the mosque! Break the mosque!" about 100 stone-throwing crusaders pulled plaster from the walls and planted saffron-colored flags atop the shrine before they were driven off by police and paramilitary troops armed with tear gas, riot sticks and guns. At least six militants...
While most people are still worrying about the consequences of a war in the Persian Gulf, a few are looking ahead to the division of spoils of a vanquished Iraq. Last month officials representing the U.S., Turkey and the Kurdish tribes of southern Turkey and northern Iraq met in Europe to discuss just what a postwar Iraq might look like. In their view, an independent Kurdistan could be carved out of Iraqi territory, and a good bit of the northern part of the country could be ceded to Turkey. There could also be significant "border adjustments" between Iraq...