Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sutherland also addressed the Irish political situation, saying the unreconciled differences between Catholic and Protestant interests in his native country were "a significant failure" of the European Community.
The movement's strength is its links to the Protestant Church, which is attended by more than 40% of East Germany's 16 million citizens. Since the 1970s, it has provided a forum for human-rights and peace advocates. Last week churches in East Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden became the...
Since its formation in 1970, the 6,400-member Ulster Defense Regiment, the British army's largest, has lost 180 men, nearly all to terrorists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Terrorist acts are also committed regularly by extremists on the Protestant side, most of them members of paramilitary groups...
The Irish Republican Army immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing. In a statement that was released in Dublin, the I.R.A. noted that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had "visited occupied Ireland with a message of war when we want peace. Now we in turn have visited the Royal Marines in...
Some of the best and brightest left the country. Thomas Mann left, and Albert Einstein, Hans Bethe, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Paul Tillich, Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder. Some of the less fortunate fell into the hands of Goring's police and ended up in...