Word: patricks
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Fordham Headmaster Cornelius McCarthy is baffled as to how good kids could go so far wrong so fast. "James Patrick Cooney was a happy-go-lucky kid, confident of himself." Confident, perhaps cocksure. Away from the protection of adults, Cooney and his friends indulged the illusion they were exempt from death and other mortal coils, as the young tend to do, this time to a deadly...
CANDIDACY DECLARED. By Patrick Kennedy, 20, youngest child of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, for the House of Representatives from Rhode Island's Ninth District; in Providence. Kennedy, who will be a junior at Providence College this fall, will challenge Representative John M. Skeffington Jr. in a September primary. He thus becomes the youngest member of his clan ever to run for public office...
...better strategy, says Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, would be to save the surplus and, in the process, put the U.S. back on solid financial ground. His plan: continue buying Treasury securities. If Congress were actually to balance the budget, the Government could use the Social Security surplus to buy back gradually the nation's $3 trillion debt from its domestic and foreign owners. Instead of tying up their resources in Government IOUs, investors would have to funnel their assets into private industry. This would promote economic growth. The process, says Moynihan, "will put the federal budget...
...British and Irish governments, which only a month ago had agreed on procedures aimed at making it easier for Britain to bring accused I.R.A. terrorists to trial in British courts. In the Portlaoise case, the judge, claiming that Britain had failed to identify the suspect formally, refused to extradite Patrick McVeigh, who is accused of complicity in four London bombings between 1981 and 1983. Officials in Dublin promised to appeal the Portlaoise ruling. McVeigh, who was released after serving five years in an Irish prison for firearms violations, went into hiding...
...dole altogether. By a vote of 93 to 3, the Senate agreed last week to revamp the nation's welfare laws in the hope of breaking the cycle of dependency on government support. "It's the first major change since the 1930s," said New York's Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the architect of the bill, "and it redefines the notion of welfare...