Word: primed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Building for the Northern Irish parliament. This parliament building looks something like the Cambridge Post Office and sits in a triumphal landscaped formal estate at the Belfast suburb of Stormont. Adjacent to the parliament building is a castle with a tin roof which became the official residence of the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland...
Despite the ever-increasing violence in the province, the government of Prime Minister O'Neill refused to even consider any of the reforms proposed by the Civil Rights Movement. Eventually, O'Neill had to resign as Prime Minister since the pressures of extreme Unionists, who wanted ever more punitive measures applied to the marchers, was almost irresistible...
Pecked at by unfavorable opinion polls, the opposition Tories and even the once faithful unions, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson has had nothing to crow about for a long time. Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins gave him something. Reporting on the balance of payments for the first half of the year, he announced that for the first time since 1962 Britain's income had exceeded the outgo. Said Jenkins, who scarcely seemed able to believe it himself: "We have been paying...
...this choice has not been accepted meekly by many of the older residents. Since a survey in the summer of 1968 by the local antipoverty agency showed that 57 percent of the 2000 elderly residents contracted paid over half their income for rent the "housing crisis" has become a prime issue in local politics...
Died. Norman Washington Manley, 76, former Prime Minister of Jamaica; of a heart attack; in Kingston. As founder of the People's National Party in 1938, then as the island's top executive from 1955 to 1962, Oxford-educated Manley played a primary role in Jamaica's rise from a stagnant British Crown colony to political independence and economic wellbeing. He was among the first and foremost organizers of a campaign to attract both tourists and industry to bolster the island's historic one-crop sugar trade. The program was so successful that today Jamaica...