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Tickle, Don't Twist. "The reason," exulted Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, "was this new sense of moderation." By that he meant the great easing in tensions between the country's pro-British Protestant majority and pro-Eire Catholic minority. Fading at last are the old hatreds that date back 45 years to the Troubles, when British Black and Tans hunted down the guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. In fact, the emotional climate has so changed that the chairman of the pro-Eire Nationalist Party, Londonderry Businessman Eddie McAteer, counseled his once fiery followers: "No more...
Prime Minister O'Neill, 51, who leads the pro-British Unionist Party, has shrewdly helped quiet the pro-Eire agitation by doing earlier this year what no other Ulster P.M. ever dared do: he invited Ireland's Premier Sean Lemass for lunch in Belfast. Many of O'Neill's supporters were outraged, but the dapper, six-foot aristocrat blithely ignored his Orangemen's indignation. "I hoped to establish more normal relations with our southern neighbors," he said coolly. "Since we share the same island, this is surely sensible...
...engaging in what were described as "indecent acts." In addition, 35 cases of Scotch whisky were conveniently found in his palace cellar, thus proving him a bad Moslem as well as an indiscreet amorist. The royal family got the message. Denouncing his "flagrant misbehavior," it deposed Sakr, installing his pro-British cousin, Khaled bin Hamad al-Kasimi, 35, in his place. The unhappy Sakr, flown into exile by the R.A.F., was greeted in Cairo as a hero of the Arab cause...
...Columbia University professor, whose A History of Our Country, first published in 1911, has remained the nation's most widely used (by more than 30 million students) high school history text, surviving repeated attempts to censure it by the D.A.R. and other groups, which claimed it was "pro-British"; of pneumonia; in Yonkers...
...veterinarian ("There's not a cow in Gambia that doesn't know me personally") who turned to politics five years ago, is a no-nonsense democrat and competent administrator. He has already signed agreements with Senegal for mutual defense, economic cooperation and sharing of diplomatic missions. Solidly pro-British, he has also talked London into underwriting his tiny economy to the tune of $10 million over the next three years-and the U.S. has given $125,000 for agricultural and harbor development...