Word: part
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Belfast-born Catholic who had first deserted from an elite British paratroop battalion to join the Provisional I.R.A., then quit the terrorists. Blake found McMullen hiding out in San Francisco and persuaded him to sit through 18 hours of interviews stretching over four days. The result: a six-part Globe series that, if McMullen is to be believed, last week gave the first inside report on all manner of I.R.A. activities, from alleged plans to assassinate Prince Philip to skulduggery...
...differences of opinion between Begin and Sadat on the future of Jerusalem also surfaced during the press conference. At Camp David, said Sadat, "we have stated that Jerusalem is part of the West Bank. When we are discussing full autonomy for the West Bank and the Gaza, for sure we are discussing the Jerusalem issue." Begin was smiling broadly as he responded. "Let me also tell you what I told my dear friend President Sadat about Jerusalem," said the Premier. "It's an indivisible city. There is completely free access to the holy shrines by sons of all religions...
...accuracy with which they could knock out Minuteman ICBM silos in the U.S. Consequently, in the very next three or four years, he warned, Western Europe must make a greater commitment to its safety on its own ground, with stronger conventional forces and improved "theater" nuclear weapons. For its part, the U.S. had better develop a new "counterforce capability" aimed at Soviet military targets and not just civilian and industrial centers...
More of an asset are 11,000 ethnic Chinese who made their way from Vietnamese fishing villages and islands to the Chinese coast in their own fishing boats. In Beihai, on the Tonkin Gulf, 7,000 refugees are fishing in the boats that brought them, selling part of their catch to the government. Three thousand others are living in a makeshift camp comprising huts furnished with wooden slat beds, mosquito netting, a small table and, sometimes, a kerosene lamp. Conditions are crowded, but no more so than in the refugee camps of Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong. "The people here...
...brisk trade has caused supplies to dwindle, bringing shortages that inflate prices even more. At the International Monetary Fund's regular monthly gold auction on Wednesday, there were bids for 1.6 million troy oz., but only 444,000 were available. The shortage has developed in part because the U.S. Treasury decided last May to cut its regular gold offerings to 750,000 oz., a 50% reduction. The supply gap could widen because the IMF gold auctions are scheduled to stop next May, the Soviets have reduced their sales to roughly two-thirds of last year's, and South...