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Sometimes the curiousity that the skins draw is more humorous than violent. "Once in a while we'll catch people taking pictures of us," Victor says. "I was eating in Charley's with some friends one night," he added. "Then I see a geek in a paisley shirt. He was angling his camera as he was eating, taking pictures of us," he says. "If people want to take pictures of us just be cool, just ask. Don't be like this geek, angling the camera while he was eating...
...writing about the Anglo-Irish Agreement and its effect on Northern Ireland ((LETTERS, May 11)), Ian Paisley Jr. says the agreement "endangers the civil rights of citizens . . . of the United Kingdom ((in)) Northern Ireland." He maintains that democracy there "has ceased to exist." Paisley is wrong on both points. The agreement declares that Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic will never be reunified without Protestant consent. As for democracy, the Anglo-Irish Agreement was specifically designed to foster democracy by granting rights to the large Roman Catholic minority, which until then was powerless and had consistently been denied its rights...
...Paisley discusses only one side of the Northern Ireland situation. He contends that "democracy has ceased to exist since the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985." The sad truth is that democracy has never existed in the province of Ulster. The Stormont government, prorogued in 1972, was the embodiment of a majority dictatorship, and as such officially tolerated and promoted various forms of discrimination, social and institutional, against the minority population. Gerrymandering, housing and job discrimination, police brutality and an incredibly repressive state-security apparatus were all consistent manifestations of the "democracy" whose passing Paisley laments. Perhaps he should follow...
...Anglican minister. At one of the A.N.C.'s modest houses scattered throughout the Zambian capital of Lusaka, Tambo discussed his group's aims and methods with TIME Senior Editor George M. Taber and Correspondents Bruce Nelan and James Wilde. Dressed nattily in a beige safari suit with a paisley cravat tucked around his neck, the A.N.C. president tugged thoughtfully on wispy chin whiskers as he spoke. Excerpts...
...tremendous clip, daily passing judgment on dozens of ideas for products ranging from rugs to umbrellas. He generally drafts the broad schemes for new wares, often leaving his staff to come up with many of the specific details, materials and manufacturing plans. "I really love the idea of dark paisley sheets," he announced at a meeting one day. When his designers scurried back into conclave with fabric samples, Lauren demanded, "No, no! I want them darker, darker, darker...