Word: queene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost a year, Northern Ireland has been rocked by stabbings, shootings, bombings and riots that have left scores injured and three dead. Behind the trouble is a growing tension between Northern Ireland's 1,250,000 Protestants loyal to the Queen and the country's 500,000 Roman Catholics, who want closer ties with the Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland. Last week Prime Minister Terence O'Neill's government took its first legal action against the man who has stirred up much of the recent trouble. He is big, garrulous Rev. Ian Paisley, 40, leader...
...Catholics, began stumping Ulster's six counties, attacking everyone from the Pope ("old red socks") to the Archbishop of Canterbury ("another traitor"). "O'Neill might as well try to stop Niagara Falls with a teaspoon." Paisley stormed, "as try to stop our Protestant cause." When Queen Elizabeth arrived in Belfast this month to dedicate a bridge, embittered Catholics promised retaliation; and sure enough, a twelve-pound chunk of concrete came crashing down on her car from a fourth-floor window on her parade route, luckily only denting the hood...
...Enjoy Helping." Nina Jo Schmale, 21, queen of the nurses' spring dance, was engaged to a high school sweetheart, proudly kept in her room a sign post for "Schmale Rd.," named for her Wheaton, Ill., family. A trim champion swimmer, member of her high school water-ballet team, and engaged to a male nursing student in Chicago, native Chicagoan Patricia Ann Matusek, 21, learned on the day of the murders that she had been accepted as a staff member at the city's Children's Memorial Hospital. In her application she had written: "Ever since...
...locale to which the girls-all brunettes-were bussed home daily from South Chicago Community Hospital appeared ideally suited for a dormitory. Known as Jeffery Manor, it is a pleasant, white-collar neighborhood of small apartments, neat homes, frolicking children and Dairy Queen stands, well removed from the city's roiling slums-and with one of its lowest crime rates. As one resident put it, "It's the kind of neighborhood where you can walk your dog after midnight...
...more than half a year, Charles de Gaulle has said little in a direct way about the war in Viet Nam. Last week, fresh from his grand tour of Russia, he spoke up. In a host's toast to the King and Queen of Laos on the eve of Bastille Day celebrations, De Gaulle declared that "France condemns this...