Word: proconsulate
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Another hopeful sign was the changing position of the major Catholic opposition group, the Social Democratic and Labor Party. The S.D.L.P. had been boycotting political talks with William Whitelaw, Britain's proconsul in Ulster, until he released the remaining 541 people held without trial under the detention law. But last week the party urged Catholics to resume their participation in local civic bodies and cooperate with the Whitelaw administration. "It is time," said the S.D.L.P., "for gestures of generosity from all sides, including the men of violence...
Meanwhile, Britain's proconsul in Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, persuaded four prominent Catholics to join an eleven-man advisory commission. Earlier in the week, he received a delegation of women from a Derry ghetto. They were the first delegation of Catholics to meet with the govern ment since the British began interning terrorist suspects without trial last August. The biggest issue preventing a Catholic reconciliation with the govern ment is internment, even though Whitelaw has released 377 of the 929 men originally held in prison camps. Last week Gerry Fitt, leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, accused...
...tempted to deal with the Catholics as Oliver Cromwell did. Since those with sufficient influence to succeed him are too far to the right to be acceptable to London or to the Catholics, Faulkner would be Ulster's last Prime Minister-and his successor would be a British proconsul appointed by London and backed by the British army...
...close relations with the Kremlin, Moscow last week announced the appointment of Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir M. Vinogradov, 49, as ambassador to Cairo. Vinogradov was an impressive replacement for the late ambassador, Sergei A. Vinogradov (no kin), who before his death two months ago was a kind of proconsul overseeing the 12,000 to 15,000 Russians in Egypt...
...Silhouette. Russian troops in Egypt are under the control of Soviet Ambassador to Cairo Sergei Vinogradov, who acts as a kind of proconsul for the Kremlin with somewhat the same role and prestige as U.S. Ambassador to Saigon Ellsworth Bunker. The Soviet military men, as well as the civilians, generally try to maintain an extremely low silhouette. Missile technicians live in self-contained tent communities. "An SA3 site," says a Western diplomat, "comes with cooks, bottle washers, the lot." Occasionally an Egyptian might glimpse a busload of Russians visiting the pyramids, or see a group of beefy, fair-skinned workers...